Work in Kenya for Supply Chain Controller

The FMCG industry is looking to fill the role below:   

Job title: Supply Chain Controller   

 
Reports to: Finance Manager/Supply Chain Manager

Principal Accountabilities / Main Functions
 

Business Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

• Collating relevant input for supply chain planning and forecasting (export distributor sales out/stock holding assumptions; working capital assumptions; cash budgets and forecasts etc)
• Integrated Planning Process: Agree assumptions on cost components evolution, generate cost forecast
• Providing technical support to end users by hands-on amendment of FI and CO configurations and customizing
• Financial accounting/controlling
• Look for and quantify potential and real savings, make recommendations.
• Coach process owners to help them understand / identify cost drivers, identify and quantify risks
• Annual Business Planning for Supply chain in liaison with production and logistics team to develop forecast volumes

Management Reporting

• Preparation of monthly export distributor and working capital reports for local management;
• Support management : create visibility around costs: analyse and investigate trends for costs, versus comparative data,
• Submission of detailed supply chain management information to the corporate centre abroad via a central information system(SCALE), ensuring that accurate and complete information is submitted within the timelines set by the corporate centre;
• Implementation of activity based costing allocation model,
• Submission of routine cash and currency management reports to corporate treasury via a central information system (TIS), ensuring that accurate and complete information is submitted within the timelines set by the corporate centre

Distributor and Supply Chain Controlling

• Routine monitoring, analysis and evaluation of actual distributor sales/stock performance and local supply chain performance (planning, logistics, customer service and working capital)
• Annual evaluation of product cost development (ICPs and Import costs); Regular evaluation of manufactured cost of goods.
• Understands the production process.
• Monitor variances and identify root-causes and make recommendations
• Period end closing of COGS and Inventory accounting
• Highlighting of significant deviations from logistics and production plan and/or forecast to the line management;
• Inventory management through management of stock take exercises. Preparation of Inventory KPI’s-Days Holding, ABC Analysis.
• Financial accounting, reporting - ABC, COGS and Inventory, Distribution costing, Variance reporting, Balance sheet separation (Working and invested capital calculations)
• Logistics and production general expenses control-analyse actual expenditure vs plan. Ensure correct absorption of costs into manufactured products
• Production process analysis-actual throughput vs planned production volumes, variance analysis

Education and Knowledge Requirements

• Bachelor commerce or related qualification (Accounting, Management Accounting, Economics). 
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years experience within a mid to large company financial management role preferably FMCG
• Relevant experience in reporting, budgeting/forecasting and working capital management an advantage.
• Advanced SAP experience ideal.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing processes
• Proactive, good communicator, with excellent analytical skills
• Intermediate to Advanced Ms Excel skills

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