Context/Scope:
EABL is the leading Drinks Company in Eastern Africa with a wide portfolio of products in various categories of beer, spirits, glass, barley, malt and other non-alcoholic drinks.
The role will have functional line responsibility to the Group Finance Director, and is a business partner to the Marketing, Sales, Strategy, Innovation and Supply functions. This role will work closely with senior stakeholders including; General Manager, Sales Director, Marketing Director, Innovation Director, Supply Director and the in-market Decision Support teams.
1. Leadership Capabilities:
Ideas: Adopts a range of approaches to get things done. Generates ideas for improvements to existing ways of working.
Edge: Moves urgently to action with a focus on outputs. Maintains drive without support from others. Takes decisions as necessary to deliver on plans.
People Performance: Positive attitude to own personal development.
Emotional Energy: Embraces change and take ownership for driving initiatives in own area. Demonstrates emotional energy through a self confident approach. Goes extra miles when needed to deliver on plans.
Living the Values: Demonstrates Diageo values (values (Be-the-Best, Freedom to Succeed, Passionate about Consumers, Proud of What we do and Valuing Each Other). Reinforces finance values of integrity, openness and challenge.
2. Functional Capabilities:
Technical Competence: Strong accounting/finance background and sound knowledge of evaluation techniques and their interpretation.
Strategic Penetration: Brings financial understanding to business decisions by ensuring that alternatives are thoroughly evaluated to arrive at optimum business decision. Works constructively with others to evaluate strategic alternatives and synergies to develop opportunities.
Consumer Insight: Identifies key consumer issues and ensures penetrative consumer understanding and insights are applied to drive financial planning and projects evaluation.
Excellence in Execution: Strong in challenging the status quo and delivering result. Delivers high quality results, including speed to execution & cost management.
Commerciality: Uses performance measurement & sound financial management, balancing short & long term to deliver value. Balances commercial, customer & consumer motivations to deliver outstanding results.
Motivating & Inspiring: Good communication skills and self-confidence. Excellent project management skills, strategy and decision support initiatives.
Top Accountabilities:
1) Own Decision Support function across the business, manages major decision support projects and supports in-market decision support teams to deliver outcomes.
2) Development and roll-out of financial processes focused on efficiency and effectiveness of A&P spend across the business.
3) Providing financial and commercial input to CAPEX investments, supply footprint and Resource allocation decisions, including pre and post evaluation of all major projects and business initiatives.
4) Drive the execution and realisation of business strategy - developed in GAME plan, Innovation, Supply and other business initiatives.
Qualifications and Experience Required:
University Graduate with professional qualifications relating to accounting/finance e.g. CPA, ACCA, CFA, CIMA etc. MBA or other post-graduate finance qualification would be an added advantage.
Excellent Microsoft Excel and Financial Modelling skills
Proven ability to persuade, influence and build credibility cross the functions.
Line management experience
Experience in working autonomously and engaging cross-functionally
Experience in managing projects, prioritising and working to deadlines
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