Supply Chain Production Business Partner (Job Number: 200001RE) Location
: Kenya-Nairobi-Nairobi-Nairobi Job Field
: Finance Posting Date
: Mar-19-2020 End Date
: Mar-26-2020 Job Type
: Regular Shift
: Day Job Job Schedule
: Full-time
Description
:
Main Job Purpose
Key business partner to supply chain
leadership team whose main responsibilities are:
- Translate Supply chain strategies
into financial plan
- Business performance management
delivering high quality insights facilitating effective decision making
- Scenario analysis on innovations and
capital investments
Job Summary
- Translate Supply chain strategies
into financial plan
and monthly financial forecast
- Ensure weekly tracking of supply chain performance against
forecast
- Identify value opportunities that require a
particular intervention / project support from Finance Business Partner
resources
- Evaluate projects in process to ensure they
have a favourable payback and return on investment
- Drive better decision making around resource
allocation and budget setting
- Undertake major performance interventions if
needed
- Support supply chain team at the key decision
gates of innovation business cases
- Review impacts of performance interventions
- Identify major risks and opportunities
- Facilitate development of corrective actions
to close gaps to targets
- Facilitate
identification and implementation of savings opportunities
- Ensure that a robust
Capex expenditure process is in place and enforced
Business
partnering and insight
- Collect data for base assumptions and liaise
with Supply Chain, and relevant cross functional teams to build the base
business case and sensitivity analysis
- Perform Business Case modelling (or facilitate
self service) and articulate business case characteristics to non-Finance
stakeholders
- Provide support in innovation funnel review
analysis
- Embed the rigour, discipline and continuous
improvement around Post-Launch Evaluations (PLEs) for implemented projects
- Provide insights to MCOs and Categories on
innovation performance, contribution to company growth, PLE earnings and
innovation trends
Process
ownership and delivery
- Act as subject matter experts in building
Innovation Business Cases
- Track Business Case (BC) progress including
CAPEX projects
- Own the BC tool and seek continuous
improvement, simplification & standardisation
- Build proactive Innovation Performance
Management capabilities - maintain and continuously improve self-service
tools and reports to track delivery of Innovation Business Cases (e.g. in market
performance of key launches)
- Provide training to Business Partners on
standard Business Case tools
- Develop a knowledge repository of best
practices and share learnings with categories and countries
Key
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree and professional qualification CPA/ACCA
- 4-5 years’ experience in finance business partnering with at least 1 year in manufacturing or supply chain
- Experience with the identification of risks & opportunities in the P&L
- Experience in driving P&L performance improvements (e.g. closing gaps vs. target) and holding others accountable (particularly peers and senior leadership)
- Significant experience managing a large and complex set of stakeholders
- Experience in presenting to and communicating with senior Finance and non-Finance stakeholders
- People management
- Stakeholder management
- Strong analytical skills, Excel modelling skills and attention to detail
- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
- Strong engagement, presentation and communication skills
- Ability to work fluidly with data and across systems
- Ability to present complex information in a simplified manner
- Qualified accountant or equivalent
- Influencing skills
