Planning & Performance Manager

The purpose of the Planning & Performance Manager role is to continuously drive Uganda’s Jinja Supply costs to an optimal level by coordinating in a challenging fashion the Financial Planning and Performance

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Define and Lead the process for Supply Uganda 

• Relevant University degree in finance or related field  

• Solid knowledge of financial accounting and control activities  

• Good knowledge of audit, tax and treasury activities  

• Experience in Product Costing  

• Expertise in Project Management, problem assessment and solving skills 

• Good communication skills  

• Excellent presentation skills, able to convey a clear message (storyline building), making complex matters easy for understanding  

• Strong business acumen, having a wide understanding of other key AB InBev business areas (Safety, Quality, Brewery operations, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc…)  

• Working in a process-oriented organization 

• Working in a multi-cultural environment  

• High level of service mindset  

• Coordination skills 

• High sense for accuracy 

• Communicative, team oriented and open for change 

• Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner 

• Basic business sense 

• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver 

• Used to working with deadlines 

• Highly results focused 

• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values 

• Presentation skills  

• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively 

• Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and PIs   
• Monitor annual plan calendar implementation on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis together with regional PPM/NoCC and other functions on a need basis 
• Define departmental targets to deliver on 3YP and Zone targets 
• Partner with country, BU and zone procurement on estimating properly all price escalations as well as on identifying and quantifying Procurement Initiatives 
• Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations 
• Ensure all initiatives are properly embedded in the budget, while avoiding double counting  
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (Anaplan, Syspro, SAP) 
• Partner with Logistics and Commercial PPMs on identifying cost impact of their Initiatives on supply 
• Assist the price and performance PPM with CTRM inputs (Commodity tracking & risk management) for transactional FX and commodity exposures within VIC 
• Lead the ZBB budget process for the plant and ensure all guidelines, templates and timelines are adhered to  
• Support on the completion of the CAPEX budget as required 
• Prepare Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) for the Uganda supply department, for financial and operational KPIs 
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results 
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans 
• Consolidate and report LE to the BU & Zone supply PPM team 
• Ensure the monthly LE is embedded in the regional LE submissions and balances back to BU submission 
• Work closely with BU to understand any plugs in the LE and ensure these are highlighted to relevant teams and plans are put in place to address 
• Define and drive the champions process for Supply Packages focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with zone guidelines, templates and timelines 
• Accurately reporting on Price & Performance on a daily, weekly and monthly basis  
• Coordinate the actuals reporting process together with BU supply PPM team and NoCC 
• Prepare management review presentations for Uganda respecting zone guidelines, templates and timelines 
• Conduct financial evaluation of Business Projects (Business Case, annual Budget & 3YP). Follow up of related reporting and perform post appraisal assessments 
• Support Plant Manager & HODS, PPM with operational reviews 
• Validation of transfer prices where applicable  
• Prepare monthly Deep Dive and T&M decks, respecting zone guidelines, templates and timelines 
• Do control checks, review and adjust actuals if needed in alignment with control  
• Stock take coordination at the site 
• Enforcement of the Minimum Internal Controls (MICs) at the Site as per the policies 

Qualifications

• Relevant University degree in finance or related field  
• Solid knowledge of financial accounting and control activities  
• Good knowledge of audit, tax and treasury activities  
• Experience in Product Costing  
• Expertise in Project Management, problem assessment and solving skills 
• Good communication skills  
• Excellent presentation skills, able to convey a clear message (storyline building), making complex matters easy for understanding  
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc) 
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools 
• Knowledge of ERP Systems 
• Fluent English in speaking, reading and writing 
• Strong business acumen, having a wide understanding of other key AB InBev business areas (Safety, Quality, Brewery operations, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc)  
• Working in a process-oriented organization 
• Working in a multi-cultural environment  
• High level of service mindset  
• Coordination skills 
• High sense for accuracy 
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change 
• Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner 
• Basic business sense 
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver 
• Used to working with deadlines 
• Highly results focused 
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values 
• Presentation skills  
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively 

Additional Information

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality.

1. Internal applicants require Line manager approval
2. Kindly attach CV in PDF format
3. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted

The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing. Interested candidates who meet the above specifications may apply no later than (13 December 2021). 

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