Job Vacancies at Upfield

Fixed Term Contract: 7 Months
Reports to: Finance Controller, West Africa

Want to make an impact where it matters?

• At Upfield our purpose is clear: we make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based products that are good for you, our planet; and with packaging that’s free from plastic.
• We are the largest plant-based company in the world, and we believe in doing what’s right for our people, our customers and the planet.
• We’ve got iconic brands like Rama, Country Crock, Blue Band and Flora that people all over the world know and love. We’ve been a trusted category leader since 1871 and yet we feel like we’re only just getting started.
• Performance, Passion and Care define who we are as a company, how we work every day, and the responsibility we feel toward our Associates, our consumers, our business partners and our world.
• We have big ambitions to grow this business and we want to attract the right people – those that love what they do, thrive on responsibility and are looking for limitless career defining opportunities.
• You’ll have to enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and it will take hard work and determination; we will give you the ownership you need to make an impact.
• You’ll have to deliver on the commitments you make. And we’ll give you the freedom and flexibility to do your job and build your own career.
• If you want to make an impact where it matters apply now!

Your Role
OVH, BMI and Forecasting:

• Management reporting including Financial forecasting/budgeting and longer-term strategic planning processes
• Managing and reporting of OVHs and BMI costs
• Ensure correct bookings of costs in P&L as per SCOA
• Forecast working capital
• Support related budget owners
• Provide assistance in forecasting and other ad-hoc business analysis
• OC Governance, continuous improvement on rule-based journals + controls
• Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU

P2P Analysis:

• P2P OC Governance, continuous Improvement on P2P Processes + controls
• Working Capital forecasting, reporting and commentary;
• Partnering BMI and Overheads teams with P2P processes
• P2P Metrics – POT (Payment on time), POC (PO Compliance), FPY (First Pass Yield) – working with/ supporting OC with directive to improve metrics
• Approval of urgent/ manual payments
• Query Escalations from business on poor service/ issues after contacting AP helpdesk/ OC/ BCS Agent
• Resolve audit queries which IBM/ OC cannot resolve
• GRNI support
• Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU

O2C and credit controls:

• Manage customer overdues across all customers
• Improve working capital through management of customer payment performance and trade term compliance
• Manage and mitigate bad debt and minimize bad debt provision
• Work with the shared service teams to ensure effective and aligned communication and deliverables are met
• Worked with shared service teams to ensure that accounts are reconciled correctly, customer statements issued in a timely manner
• Work with shared service and other internal functions to ensure that customer claims are placed in a timely manner and support the resolution of deductions on customer accounts
• Ensure accurate and timely month end reporting
• Support first line investigation and resolution of EDI issues
• Raise manual accruals for CD trade terms
• Prepare and validate rebate review
• Allocate promotional invoices against correct rebates
• Resolve deductions, disputed claims that IBM cannot resolve with the CD team
• Provided support for statutory reporting requirements

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• A very strong academic record
• Excellent understanding of financial metrics and FFG Financial processes
• Very strong track record of delivery in previous Finance roles
• Very strong work ethic, resilience in the face of pressure and ability to meet multiple stretching deadlines
• Good team player With great communication skills 
• Strong analytical bias and excellent attention to detail
• Microsoft Excel skills and PowerPoint capability.

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Location: Nigeria/Ghana
Fixed Term Contract: 7 Months
Reports to: Global Deployment Lead (dotted line into the local CFO)

Want to make an impact where it matters?

• At Upfield our purpose is clear: we make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based products that are good for you, our planet; and with packaging that’s free from plastic.
• We are the largest plant-based company in the world, and we believe in doing what’s right for our people, our customers and the planet.
• We’ve got iconic brands like Rama, Country Crock, Blue Band and Flora that people all over the world know and love. We’ve been a trusted category leader since 1871 and yet we feel like we’re only just getting started.
• Performance, Passion and Care define who we are as a company, how we work every day, and the responsibility we feel toward our Associates, our consumers, our business partners and our world.
• We have big ambitions to grow this business and we want to attract the right people – those that love what they do, thrive on responsibility and are looking for limitless career defining opportunities.
• You’ll have to enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and it will take hard work and determination; we will give you the ownership you need to make an impact.
• You’ll have to deliver on the commitments you make. And we’ll give you the freedom and flexibility to do your job and build your own career.
• If you want to make an impact where it matters apply now!

Your Role

• Upfield is in the process of building a world-class business that is data-driven and customer-centric.
• This project will involve a lot of transformation in every aspect of Upfield’s business operations including the technology systems we use and this is where you come in.
• The Regional Deployment Lead will be responsible for the successful Deployment of the project to their Region/Country.
• Working alongside the In-Country Deployment Leads, they will be responsible for engaging the Functional Leadership within the regions to enable decision making, resource allocation and activity execution for overall success.

Responsibilities
Your main Responsibility will be to:

• Provide leadership and experience to full deployment team in region
• Manage the deployment of the integrated Global Template for Upfield incorporating new processes, systems, data & reporting across a single geographic region (East & West Africa)
• Support the In-Country Leads to execute their role, providing coaching and guidance.
• Ensure a common approach is taken by all country / cluster leads and methodologies / learning are leveraged across the region
• Manage optimal allocation of deployment specialists across region
• Liaise with the Global Template team, to identify and resolve local issues
• Shadow earlier deployment to build expertise in processes and deployment
• Support the central team in communications with countries/clusters
• Filter’ questions / issues going into central team to support country /cluster leads
• Definition, ownership and maintenance of the Regional Plan, RAID log, resourcing and budgets
• Establish and maintain regular
• Programme meetings including managing Regional readiness and adherence to the stage gate process
• Manage the dependencies between the Global Template Design & Build team and the Country deployment teams
• Support the Country Deployment Leads to deliver the deployment via in-country cross functional business and IT deployment teams
• Overall accountable for successful Finance deployment in country / cluster
• Ensure robust plans in place and track progress vs plan
• Manage risks and issues and escalate to Regional Deployment lead as appropriate

Capabilities

• Experience managing Global Deployments of large-scale ERP systems / Global business templates.
• Experienced Financial Controller with 3 years minimum on a Financial Controller role
• Experience in managing dynamic, fast paced Global Projects/Programmes
• Great Leaderships skills with ability to manage a diverse team effectively.
• FMCG sector experience is preferable.