Cashflow Manager

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The key purpose of this role is to fully own the Budget, forecast and performance tracking of BU South Africa’s Cash Flow Statement. Including, driving initiatives and projects with different stakeholders to deliver required synergies without compromising the quality of our products, safety of our people, and the perception of our consumers.

Key roles and responsibilities:

Owner of the Cash Flow monthly Business Cycle for the BU:

• Perform overall review of Cash Flow at month-end to understand performance variances (positive and negative) across all lines of the statement vs different versions of budget.
• Build Latest Estimate (LE) process for the BU monthly for submission to Global. Collate risks and determine if any opportunity to save  are bankable.
• Understand reasons for savings and have the capacity to explain them clearly to senior leadership. Prepare month cash flow deck for presentation to VP Finance.

Owner of Cash Flow yearly Business cycle for the BU. Develop 1YP and budget base assumptions:

• Combine actual performance and benchmarks with planned initiatives to build base assumptions.
• Develop and continuously improve model at a comprehensive level of detail.
• Link business KPIs expected evolution to financial targets.
• Track major project initiatives and report impacts to 1YP.

 

Responsible for Core Working Capital – Cash Flow Management, in alignment with:

• Procurement & Leads from the other functions for DPO.
• Accounts Receivables & Revenue Management Leads for DSO.
• Logistics & Inventories Leads for DIO.
• Lead Cash Flow deliverables with different stakeholders such as BU Functional Owners and Procurement Teams at the BU Level.
• Drive the execution of Cash Flow in the BU i.e. policies localization and revision, initiatives tracking, tracking monitoring responsibilities, etc
• Responsible for the overall delivery of BU Cash flow initiatives with Finance Director, Package Owners and Entity Owners.
• Identify Best Practice and share in-BU.

Key attributes and competencies:

• Strong analytical and model development skills, with a self-learning and curious attitude.
• Excellent Leadership, interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills. Capability to constructively interact with and challenge senior colleagues in the different countries/Business Units.
• Change management skills to support significant process changes that affect a major portion of the organization.
• Effective communication skills with all levels in the organization (Global and BU Levels).
• Willing to travel internationally as necessary.

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Economics or a bachelor’s degree and equivalent experience. CA, CIMA or MBA strongly preferred.
• 3-4 years’ experience in business environment; + years’ experience managing people
• Business processes knowledge including strategy and finance strongly preferred. Proficient in understanding accounting and financial statements
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel. Syspro, Cognos Report net, SAP and Capital IQ experience a plus.
• Fluent in English.

Additional Information:

 

• Band: VI

SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.