With our Consumer at the heart, your key focus will be to: Performance measurement&Reporting: Leading financial reporting activities, including Monthly/Annual closure of books Periodic review of working capital, close monitoring of slow-moving stocks and ensure adequacy of Inventory provisions as per policy. Support the periodic reviews for the Africa Supply chain team, highlighting key variances vs budget and providing insights into operational spend and areas for cost optimisation Forecasting and highlighting risks&opportunities across manufacturing&supply chain Supporting the budgeting activities for Africa local Manufacturing and regional Supply chain operations, to work closely with Supply chain, Commercial&leadership teams Supply chain projects: Support new product development, Manufacturing and strategic projects Assess Cost of Goods for new innovation projects&business cases Identify measures to optimize distribution costs Highlight inefficiencies in supply chain processes and work closely with supply chain team on cost saving / value engineering projects. Continuous identification of opportunities to improve processes, optimize costs Interact closely with all relevant stakeholders across functions to ensure commercial/Finance support for new projects, such as SAP readiness, master data setups and other activities as per project timelines Compliance: Compliance of all applicable SOX and internal controls&financial policies with respect to ***, Opex, procurement, physical verification of stocks across all warehouses and other supply chain process controls. Ensuring green status in all Statutory or Internal audits. #J-18808-Ljbffr