Jobs at Food Concepts Plc

Requisition ID: 1800

Job Purpose

• To provide in-depth financial and business analysis, support strategic decision-making, and drive margin improvement through accurate reporting, cost optimization, and insightful financial modelling.
• This position works collaboratively with other cross functional teams to obtain the information needed to identify areas of action for driving successful business results.

Core Responsibilities and Key Result Areas
Financial Analysis:

• Analyse detailed financial information along with current and past trends in key performance indicators to provide accurate and timely financial and operational in-depth analysis.
• Support the financial analyst to drive margin improvement through accurate financial information and analysis.
• Present reports on general economic trends, individual corporations and whole industries.
• Creating financial models on performing business units, customer, competitors and cost analysis
• Work closely with the financial analyst on any ad-hoc analysis required for management.

Business Analysis and Research:

• Recipe costing and pricing analysis
• Regularly update raw material prices to hedge against inflation
• Conduct business studies, review accounts, vendor reports, contractual terms, prices and market oscillations.
• Perform budget and cost analysis, reviewing and advisory of financial status.
• Consult and participate in studies of new and existing products/projects to determine feasibility, resolve problems including organizational, procedural, technical and fiscal research and analysis

Key Performance Indicators

• Quality of business recommendations
• Increase in revenue attributed to solutions/recommendations
• Profitability of findings from business studies
• Decrease in cost attributed to solutions/recommendations

Job Specifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field
• Membership of ICAN/ACCA or any other related professional qualification is required.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as financial analyst, business analyst or similar role.
• Experience in a QSR company in a similar role is an asset.

Knowledge Requirements:

• Demonstrates good research, quantitative, and analytical skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Presentation and Excel Skills
• Develop insightful presentations and slides with data.
• Exceptional financial modelling and scenario analysis skills, with an expert understanding of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Decision Expectations

• Strategic pricing adjustment
• Margin improvement initiatives
• New Products feasibility and viability.
• Financial performance review.

Working Conditions:

• The Job holder typically work 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, although some roles may involve weekend or evening work.
• This role is largely office-based, as it involves a lot of large data gathering, analysis and reporting.

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Requisition ID: 1863

Responsibilities
Warehouse Management:

• Strategically plan and manage logistics, warehouse, transportation and customer service in the inventory team
• Ensure timely receipt, storage and dispatch of goods
• Manage the logistics activities of the division including drivers and other ancillary staff while planning routes and processing shipments
• Maintain inventory control and management
• Ensure optimization of materials flow
• Ensure minimization of stock losses and receiving and or issuing lead times
• Meet cost, productivity, accuracy and timeliness targets
• Ensure control of all fixed and variable costs
• Work proactively with various departments to realize efficiencies and manage expectations

Risk Management:

• Minimize stock losses
• Ensure and monitor adherence to laws, regulations and OHS&E requirements
• Ensure receipt of goods in line with specifications on Purchase Orders
• Keep track of quality, quantity, stock levels, delivery times, transport costs and efficiency
• Apply appropriate asset management procedures in order to achieve maximum return on assets
• Perform continuous evaluation of warehouse security and implementation of necessary measures to maintain safety of stock
• Develop preventative maintenance systems and contingency plans.
• Implement business continuity and resumption plans

Strategy And Advisory:

• Identify and implement cost saving measures to reduce Food Concepts’ cost of storing and handling goods/equipment
• Generate and and analyze reports at pre-defined and agreed intervals to aid decisions relating to inventory and working capital management
• Maintain metrics and analyze data to assess performance and implement improvement
• Supervise, coach and train the inventory team
• Active management of the warehouse annual expense budget.

Key Performance Indicators

• Timeliness of delivery of stock items to various locations
• The quality/ yield of cost saving initiatives provided
• Quality of risk management/prevention of risk exposure in the warehouse.

Requirements

• A good first Degree in social/management/physical sciences.
• Minimum of 5 – 6 years’ experience in a similar role, especially in the QSR/Food Industry sector.
• Possession of a Post graduate degree in Human Resources/Business Administration/Supply Chain Management or related field is an added advantage.
• Membership of the CIPS, CILS, CILCS, CISCOM, Lean Six Sigma or any other related professional qualification is required.

Skills:

• Knowledge of Inventory Management
• Knowledge of Cost management principles
• Knowledge of applicable legislations, as well as policies and procedures
• Demonstrates expertise in Warehouse and logistics management.

Decision Expectations:

• Negotiate competitive quote on logistics cost
• Maintain inventory control and management
• Performs continuous evaluation of warehouse security
• Implements safety measures to ensure safety of stock.

Working Conditions

• Job holder typically work 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, although some roles may involve weekend or evening work.
• This role is both office and field(warehouse) based and has some occasional physical demands such as lifting stock items that weigh over 10kg if the need arises and walking round the warehouse to ensure the effective monitoring.

Contacts And Purpose Of Contact:
Internal Contacts (most frequent contacts)

• Executive Management
• Warehouse Associate.

External Contacts (most frequent contacts)

• Service Providers / Vendors.

Purpose Of Contact:

• Exchange or provide information
• Obtain, clarify, and discuss information
• Present, discuss information and problems
• Collaborate, negotiate and present ideas
• Deal with, influence or motivate subordinates
• Promote, justify or settle highly sensitive matters.