Finance Business Partner

1 hour ago

Umhlanga, South Africa Code Red Recruitment Full time

_**Overall Job Purpose**:_

The Finance Business Partner: Head Office is responsible for partnering with the relevant function to understand, interpret and translate the function’s strategies in terms of financial cost drivers and value opportunities. The role is also accountable for producing accurate, relevant and timeous management reporting (for the function) that:

- enables appropriate business decision making;
- aligns to statutory reporting requirements, and
- creates value adding and analytical insights for strong financial performance.
- Provides consolidated value chain reporting and support for strategic deliverables for the function.
- Drives continuous improvement and operational excellenc

**Key Accountabilities**:
**Business and Financial Accountabilities**:

- Work closely with the site Finance Managers to provide support in order to achieve and measure performance and implement best practice.
- Drive best practice and a culture of continuous improvement through Finance BP KPI development and tracking
- Prepare and design new reporting models with process driven CI methodology to improve presentation and level of data analytics
- Review the monthly performance and monitor against Strategic KPIs, providing insights to Exco and Senior Management
- Implement standardised business processes and reporting templates where applicable
- Support the Site Business Partners in preparation and compilation of company strategic financial plan
- This role is a partner to the relevant Functional Head providing both challenge and support to ensure clear accountability and insight into results.
- Ensure Finance is at the heart of the decision-making process; bringing rigour to the evaluation and implementation of value-enhancing decisions.
- Bring financial understanding to a business decision by ensuring alternatives are thoroughly evaluated and the optimum decision taken; uses appropriate business tools to support decision-making
- Develop a good understanding of the cost drivers and identify opportunities for optimising profitability and managing costs down
- Focus on streamlining processes and evolving reporting to suit the specific requirements of the business over time
- Consolidate P&L forecasting and budgeting including causals, analysis and insightful management reporting in a standardised format for the function
- Provide relevant, understandable information, insight and challenge to functional teams
- Lead on projects to deliver the function’s strategy
- Undertake appropriate benchmarking and market analysis
- Support and review site Cost to Serve Model and present key insights for decision making to Functional Head
- Support and review Product costing models (input to Cost to Serve) on a quarterly basis, including key findings
- Assist in preparation of IRR and Capital Viability models to support strategic decision making
- Review the monthly TCOL and present any key insights for decision making
- Identify any opportunities to streamline operations to achieve cost savings or more cost effective route to market
- Prepare profit impacts for changes in cost drivers and macro assumptions for presentation to functional head with commentary

**Standard Costing**
- Obtain an understanding of the operating and manufacturing model and ensure alignment to the Bill of Materials
- Ensure the standard costing methodology is in line with Group Policy and IFRS
- Review monthly variances to standard costing and obtain reasons for key variances from Site Finance
- Manager
- Prepare monthly stock valuation journal for review, showing variance to latest forecast with commentary

**Operational performance**
- Prepare functional performance report (production and sales), identifying any key variances to latest estimates
- Review the Biological assets valuation and Root Depreciation models for reasonableness and trace to supporting documentation

**Industry Support**
- Ensure SASA Sugar Industry proceeds and related transactions are accurate
- Notify Treasury of funding requirements for SASA outward and incoming funds
- Prepare all sugar industry related journal entries for review
- Update all sugar industry related models
- Stay up to date with developments in the industry/SASA
- Manages the SASA Season end AUP process with external auditors and SASA Finance team
- Submit all mandatory information, per SASA timetable
- Ensure all SASA rules are implemented and complied with
- Obtain an understanding of the Sugar Industry Agreement, Main Principles Document and other relevant
- SASA documentation

**Customer and Stakeholder Accountabilities**:

- Partnerships with key customers
- Manage strategic discussions with business partners (internal customers) and other business teams to
- make sure that their needs are met and key pain-points are addressed
- Formulate and manage Service Level Agreements with required stakeholders

**People and Leadership Accountabilities**:

- Skill and knowledge sharing: Support and guid

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