Manufacturing Accountant – UBL Jobs – Diageo

Job: Manufacturing Accountant – UBL

Organization: Diageo

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine. These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor, Buchanan’s and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Ciroc and Ketel One vodkas, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness.

Job Summary:  The Manufacturing Accountant will mainly drive controls agenda in supply finance in the areas of both process and system controls to deliver compliance in the key areas of Inventory management, engineering spares, Agriculture, logistics & warehousing.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Inventory Management

• Drive the execution and realisation of business strategy in inventory management and process control
• Manage the entire inventory ledger through tracking, reporting, and verification and reconciliation process.
• Support plant engineering team with all repairs and maintenance activities.
• Oversight of the Agriculture stock accountant activities and signoff of reconciliation
• Drive and support all make in all finance related activities.
• Drive and support Move in all finance related activities. Support business system related activities.

Overall COGs Management

• Support the business on its continued drive to reduce COGs/EU  (Brand value enhancement & material optimisation)
• Work with operations and maintenance department personnel to understand cost impacts of operations, work on implementing corrective action plans to improve cost performance, investigate data and operational inconsistencies, prepare and analyse monthly financial and operational reports.
• Provide financial decision support to the business for adhoc projects and initiatives.
• Work closely with the logistics to implement drive out cost initiatives to ensure that set out targets are met.

Systems controls and Reporting

• Drive a robust control function in supply chain function and ensure closure of identified control lapses.
• Support finance processes end to end as well as good understanding of SAP processes to drive compliance in supply chain system process and support new products system set ups.
• To compile, maintain, and provide timely, relevant, and accurate financial performance data to Operations Team, cost improvement team, and other departments as needed. Monthly accounting close process (including Material Ledger, maintenance costs & distribution costs), prepare and update monthly reports, and track performance against projections.
• Ensure monthly & daily stock reconciliations are prepared and circulated. Any variances highlighted should have a clear action for resolution.
• Ensure adequate preparations and resourcing for a successful month/year end stock-take process.
• Review stock take files and compare losses vs plan.
• Ensure adequate explanations for the variances.
• Monitor stock obsolescence to ensure adequate provisioning.
• Work closely with the supply chain team to ensure accurate reporting and tracking of distribution costs.
• Follow up on DHL warehouse & transit breakages for timely recovery as well as monitor stock obsolescence to ensure adequate provisioning.
• Follow up with shared services centre to ensure that key vendor reconciliations for logistics, planning and maintenance are being done and old reconciling items are appropriately resolved.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate for the Diageo Manufacturing Accountant job must be a Graduate qualified accountant or a degree preferably in business field; MBA would be an added advantage.
• Chartered Accountant/ACCA/CPA qualified (or equivalent)
• SAP knowledge in Manufacturing, PTP, and OTC
• Sound stakeholder management skills, including the ability to motivate and challenge a team to deliver results
• Experience of working with staff at all levels in an organization
• Knowledge of the key aspects of a finance function, including financial accounting and reporting requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of Excel
• Experience in inventory management
• Demonstrate understanding of accounting principles and policies and how they can be applied to optimize performance and control risk

Skills:

• A self-starter who is able to work with minimum supervision
• Takes initiative and responsibility for seeing tasks through
• Highly motivated and flexible
• Ability to get on with personnel at all levels of the organization
• Results oriented
• High standard of attention to detail
• A commitment to and understanding of the importance of equality and diversity within the environment that the EABL operates

How to Apply:

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