Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited (Seven Up), Nigeria’s largest manufacturing company, is seeking an Operational Finance Manager to join its nine bottling plants across Nigeria. The role involves providing active business partnership and collaboration to regional leadership, interpreting financial information, and highlighting opportunities, challenges, and risks for smooth operations.
The role involves cross-functional business collaboration, tracking key business indicators, and providing analytical support on GSR, trade offers, volume mix, and channel-wise profitability and requires experience in MNC manufacturing environments, professional level qualifications in accounting and finance, sound financial and accounting knowledge, exceptional business understanding, management accounting, business planning and analysis, excellent data analytics skills, and working knowledge of business intelligence applications like Power BI.
Job Title: Operational Finance Manager
Location: Aba, Abia
Employment Type: Full-time
Position Overview
- To provide active business partnership and collaboration to Functional Leadership of the region in meeting Business and Operational Objectives along with interpreting financial information and highlighting business opportunities, challenges and risks for smooth business operations.
Responsibilities
- Cross Functional Business Collaboration and Partnering
- Acts as business partner to Commercial & Production functions for routine and ad-hoc business analysis and decision-making
- Ensure day to day tracking of Key Business Indicators including Gross Sales Revenue, Discounts and Taxes, Net Sales Revenue [NSR] and Variables Margin [VM] and Collaborates with Regional Leadership to drive Profitable Sales Mix
- Supervises the preparation and discusses SKU [Brand/Pack] Profitability Analysis with Commercial Leadership for decisions on volumes, pricing, promotions etc.
- Provides Analytical Support and Key Business Insights on GSR, Trade Offers [Price Off, Discounts] and Promos, volume mix and channel wise profitability
- Champions Plant, Category, Line wise MOH analysis, COM evaluations [Yields, Wastages, Variances etc.] and Freight cost Analysis for Haulage, Delivery, and Distribution, etc.
- Business KPI Monitoring, Reporting, and Tracking – Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Yields, KWHs, Fuel Usage, Power Analysis, R&M Analysis, Freight Analysis, Delivery/Distribution Cost, Consumables etc.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related fields.
- 5 – 6 years post qualification experience in MNC Manufacturing Environment, preferably beverage operations.
- Professional Level Qualification in Accounting and Finance – ACCA, ACA, CIMA
- Sound financial and accounting knowledge and exceptional business understanding, Management Accountancy, Business Planning and Analysis
- Excellent Ability related to Data Analytics at both financial and operational fronts
- Working knowledge of business intelligence applications like Power BI, etc.
- A high degree of resourcefulness and ingenuity are required to develop solutions to problems of unusual complexity
Application Closing Date
31st December, 2023.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.