Assistant Manager-Factory Finance

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Core- Control, Compliance and books:

• Manage overall accounting, tax compliances/litigation and financial management requirements. Ensure zero non-compliance with applicable rules and SOPs.
• Ensure the control environment complies with all company policies and supports safeguarding of company assets.
• Performs or manages the stock and fixed assets verification, reconciliation, and control processes as per approved SOPs. Report deviations within 4 days to ZFF (Zonal Factory Finance) & OFC (Operations Finance Controller).
• Monitors adherence to DOA and internal control policies for all plant functions. Report deviations within 4 days to ZFF & OFC.
• Maintain audit ready status of internal controls through periodic review and self-audits. Ensure zero non-compliance.
• Maintains and ensures data integrity in the ERP system (vendor, stock, and non-stock) and COGS tool through proper item and BOM (bill of material) set-up, manufacturing accounting review and issue resolution.
• All JDE controls accounts should be reconciled on regular (Monthly) basis.
• Prepares and submits management reports as per deadlines.
• Ensure monthly operational review meetings as per defined review framework/heatmap.
• Ensure the unit team performs cut off activities as per closing calendar circulated by HO.
• Provide support to ZFF in adhoc/exception reports
• Drive ICFOR (Internal Controls over Financial Reporting) testing for units.
• Tracking CSR budget and compliance of DOA/taxes
• Proposing and regular tracking DOH & IDOH budgets and compliance of DOA.

Financial performance:

• Develops plant capex and spending forecasts for annual operating plans as per zonal/HO deadlines.
• Review of CERs/ capex POs to ensure error free key qualitative and qualitative KPIs ( ROI, Payback).
• Support Zonal finance in development of annual plan of cost, capacity and productivity.
• Track delivery of annual capacity, cost and capex targets.
• Develop plans to close any gaps in plant's targets within one month of identification.
• Analyze and effectively communicate financial results to plant personnel and head office including results reviews at monthly direction setting team meetings.
• Track recovery of loans from bottlers as per agreed terms.

Assist Zonal Head and Zonal Finance in driving projects and objectives:

• Represents finance function at Plant to support development and execution of projects C strategies.
• Responsible to communicate performance status (operational and financial) with KPI owners.
• Help lead/support various committees at plant including ǪSE and employee engagements (Good to have).
• Drive zonal level initiatives in alignment with ZMM.
• Participates in processes improvement initiatives driven by finance
• Ensure that the cost of conversion/bottler's costing optimized.
• Support ZFF in review of bottlers' proposals review and due diligence exercise.

Maintain high level of engagements at units:

• Support ZFF in providing education and training across the zone on tools and processes, cost drivers, internal controls, and financial performance measurements.
• Conduct sessions for new/transferred employees
• Participate in SCR and unit engagements