Mill Finance Business Partner

5 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa Kimberly-Clark Full time

**Mill Finance Business Partner, Epping Mill, Cape Town**

**Job posting closing date: 29th August 2024, end of day.**

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

In this role, you will:

- Provide timely and insightful information, analyses (e.g. benchmark, mill performance, new product costing etc.) and recommendations to the mill manufacturing teams and others, and clearly highlight actionable opportunities for improving profitability and working capital, to guide management towards successfully achieving Kimberly Clark S.A.’s financial targets.
- Support Mill operations process streams in any analysis and costing requirements with information that can assist/influence important business decisions.
- Business partnering to support any business request for information and or analysis from Mill process streams that they require to support their areas of responsibility (product or category).
- Drive cost awareness across the mill by translating financial information into a story and operational targets.
- Manage the capital and operating lease processes of Kimberly Clark S.A., including the budgeting process, internal control appropriation analysis review as well as preparation, spending, reporting and document control.
- Advocate LEAN business practices, driving out waste by using LEAN problem-solving tools, practices and standard work across mill and wider analysis community.
- Act as the main financial point of contact for shared services, for providing necessary inputs in quarterly and monthly processes.
- Be the main receiver of reporting for mill finance from shared services for the purpose of review, or onward communication.
- Provide day-to-day on the job and off the job advise/guidance to employees and line managers in company financial policies, practices, and procedures to support the corporation’s program for strong financial control by reporting whenever corporate policies or instructions are not being followed.
- Lead the full internal plan in the facility including continuous improvement in the control environment by ensuring Corporate Financial Policies & Procedures are implemented, maintained, and adhered to, this includes SOX (Regulation Framework) related test and reporting as well.
- Implement, manage, and maintain up to date accounting and reporting systems, which will enable the department to obtain and distribute accurate information that is relevant.
- Lead preparation, review of realistic mill forecasts (monthly, quarterly and annually) on timely manner based on key drivers and identifying risks and opportunities to drive corrective actions.
- Manage preparation of general ledger reconciliations and timeous resolution of reconciling items
- Active participant in Cost Transformation including target cost analysis and detail SKU analysis to identify any opportunities or risks.
- Administrative and people management
- Frontline Management Team partnering including sessions like weekly meetings, internal control sessions, Union, and Town Hall sessions.
- Manage general administrative functions in accordance with Corporate Financial Instructions
- Safety
- ensure compliance to OSH act regulations and achieving safety objectives within area of responsibility.

**About Us**

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform - so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

**Led by Purpose. Driven by You.**

**About You**

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your



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