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The Coca-Cola CompanyDirector - Finance Operations - South Africa Franchise
Dec. 2023 - Feb. 2025City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaRoles, Responsibilities and achievements: Control and management of P&L through Rolling Estimate, volume and pricing processes. Forecasting Coke System Net Sales Revenue and assessing impact on Coca-Cola P&L. Preparing analysis on volume, price and mix performance for Franchise and presenting in monthly business review. Value Chain analysis, assess impact on system profitability. Assessing the allocation and re-allocation of Direct Marketing investment. Supporting the Marketing team to identify opportunities in the budget and assessing new initiatives. Build relationships and working closely with other OU finance functions like FP&A, System Economics and Genpact teams. Coordinating routines with bottlers to assess system performance and profit split. Ensuring a strong Controls and Compliance culture by assisting the franchise team with queries and supporting the internal audit. Coaching and supporting other members of the team.
The Coca-Cola CompanyFinance Capability Lead Africa
May. 2021 - Nov. 2023Roles, Responsibilities and achievements: Finance Capability program development - collaborated with Global FI&C team to launch global finance capabilities program for 6 priority capabilities. Arranging the Invest in yourself workshop for Africa Operating Unit Finance associates by collaborating with corporate and Europe OU Finance teams. Lead the interactions between OU and Platform Services, working closely with PS Marketing Finance Service Delivery Lead on Marketing Expense Management campaign process management, change management on global P2P initiatives, regular checkpoints across towers and improving processes. Ensuring World class Internal Controls & Governance for the Operating Unit - Driving automation of PO Release strategies for the OU. Key point of contact for the CAD internal audit. Updating and monitoring compliance of policies and procedures. Delegation of Authority / Local Chart of Authority owner for OU. Conducting training for entire OU on controls & compliance. Creation of Africa OU Finance connect web page and responsible for Finance communications to the OU. Part time Short term assignment on Global Resource Allocation capability development program. (Apr 2023 – Dec 2023) Coca-Cola Africa Roles, Responsibilities and achievements: Formed part of the Dynamic allocation workstream of the program. Developed and implemented the Operating Unit Dynamic Allocation Playbook to enable the Operating Units to dynamically reallocate Marketing investment during the year. Collaborated with the local Africa Investment Management team to pilot and implement the tools and governance processes designed for the playbook. Co-designed and facilitated a 3-day workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa with a global team of SMEs to stress test the paybook and get valuable inputs of best practises.
Kimberly-ClarkFinancial Controller
Feb. 2016 - May. 2021Johannesburg Area, South AfricaRoles and Responsibilities: Forecasting of Foreign Currency requirements and hedging Drive achievement of Working Capital targets Ensure the integrity and accuracy of financial records for reporting purposes Manage the external audit and consultants preparing Financial statements Ensure annual tax return prepared and submitted Overseeing Accounts Payable with outsourced partner Ensure that the Balance Sheet has no risk items that could impact P&L Maintain develop and enhance systems of internal control and SOX procedures Manage relationship with banking institutions and funding requirements Compliance with SARB regulations Managing the Accounts Receivable and Pricing and Rebates departments Ensure that all Capex are correctly reported and accounted for Overseeing Payroll compliance Support the development and performance of team members Embed a Continuous Improvement mind-set within teams Key Achievements: Responsible for completing the Balance Sheet cleansing process Rolling out of restructuring project by outsourcing financial accounting activities to central Shared Services Center Improving Audit process to reduce time to complete AFS by half Detecting fraud and putting controls in place to avoid re-occurrence Continuous Improvement of various processes including Working capital management, Forecasting, Accounts Payable, Payroll controls and Pricing & Rebates
Pembury Lifestyle GroupFinancial Director
Sep. 2014 - Oct. 2015Fairland JohannesburgRoles and Responsibilities: Managing process for application to list on JSE AltX Managing the full finance function IFRS accounting implementation External Audit management Debtors and creditors control Cash flow management Evaluation of new business opportunities Key Achievements: Preparation of Business plan and forecast for anticipated JSE AltX listing
SABMillerCommercial Manager
May. 2011 - Aug. 2014Roles and Responsibilities: Monthly report preparation and control of Marketing related spend. Budgeting and monitoring of Trade Discount spend. Preparation of budget and support of annual Planning process. Keeping track and identifying of Risks & Opportunities. Review of budgets during quarterly Profit Forecasts, adjusting budgets in line with risks & opportunities. Providing ad-hoc finance decision support to the National Trade Marketing team. Financial assistance and profitability analysis for Channel planning process. Profitability analysis, generating insights for profitability deck. Involvement in the design. Managing the support of the Regional SAP PS/IM rollout. Facilitating key member of budget choices discussions with GM and S&D Director. Improve Procure to Pay competence within the S&D / Finance team. Key Achievements: Finance resource on the “SAB/ABI Cooler” project where the maintenance and service of coolers are being combined in order to achieve synergies resulting in a R20m saving to the company. Responsible for calculating the cost and benefits of the project, payback period and ROI. Dinaledi customer loyalty programme project finance lead. Costing of different scenarios and calculating the estimated profit growth resulting from the programme. Implementing complex IFRS treatment for loyalty programmes. SAP PS/IM rollout to SAB Regions. Project lead for rolling out the system for marketing related spend in order to have a single reporting platform from which informed decisions can be made. Changing the mindset of Channel and Group Account Managers from a purely volume orientated outlook to a profitability mindset. This was done with analysis including mix analysis at a pack level, identifying profit drivers and areas of opportunity. Resulting in a more focussed approach. Subject matter expert in project that created Finance training material for non-finance staff that was rolled out globally.
SABMillerBrand Management Accountant
Nov. 2010 - Apr. 2011Roles and Responsibilities: Monthly report preparation, control and submission of Marketing related spend. Improve Procure to Pay competence within the Brand teams. Preparation of budget and support of Brand Planning process. Closing out of SAP PS/IM projects for year end. Master Data cleansing on SAP PS/IM. Supporting the demands of two Power Brands (Castle Lager and Hansa Pilsener) Providing ad-hoc finance decision support to the Brands. Key Achievements: Assisting Brand Marketing teams with financial information for the Brand planning process, resulting in more informed decision to be made. Implementing a new finance department therefore structures, processes and procedures had to be put in place.
SABMillerFinancial Planner
Aug. 2007 - Oct. 2010Johannesburg Area, South AfricaGeneral Responsibilities: Annual budgeting, quarterly review and monthly report preparation, control and submission of the following: o Purchase Price Variance (PPV), Inventory, External Warehouses, Controllable Fixed Costs, Non Beverage Revenue, Debtors, Centralised Rebates. Manager of two Assistant Financial Planners. Optimised the Purchase Price Variance reporting process and reporting. Foreign exchange analysis on imported raw materials. Monitoring and control of Foreign Procurement process. Supporting Commercial managers with 5 year plan. Managing of Ad-hoc projects. Providing input as a SME to the Triumph design team regarding Foreign Procurement and PPV processes. Acting as Primary Distribution Financial Planner for 2 months. Key Achievements: Assisting commodity managers with costing and planning of raw material procurement mandating. Input into developing of Excel forecasting model for raw material requirements. Raw Material spend analysis. Year on year analysis and reconciliation to Income Statement Cost of Sales.
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