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Role Purpose

// Playing an active business partnership role in driving finance and operational performance and managing KPI’s across various business units; from Research & Development, Quality, Safety, Commercial, production and Inventory.

// Providing critical Business intelligence of COGS and Seed Treatment analysis, providing support and analysis, adding value that will assist in strategic and operational decision making.

// Liaison and support with stakeholders within and cross functionally.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

// Operational excellence:

• Playing a crucial part in implantation and maintaining internal Controls.
• Support projects listed with calculations verifying the savings.
• Support team members to achieve and to work towards obtaining robust savings in our production operations.

// Costing & Transfer Pricing:

• Costing corn seed for local productions         and Import Business.

• Maintain cost estimates and material masters in SAP system for all materials.
• Updating yearly and month-end cycles in SAP master data according to budget.
• Determining export costs, confirming & approving exports and Transfer pricing.
• Responsible for Transfer price agreements between different entities within EMEA and Asia.

// Monthly closing & reporting activities:

• Managing KPIs to achieve lowest cost of production.
• Manage & reconcile all balance sheet inventory accounts.
• Cost Centre management, engagement with cost centre owners with deep dive & analysis. Planning, budgeting & Forecasting.

 // Supply business

• Determining unitary COGM (Cost of Goods Manufactured) based on calculated total production costs and total units produced in Malawi.
• Variance analysis of forecast compared to Budget, previous forecast and LRP.

 // Special Projects and Savings Initiatives:

• Working with Production Lead to re-work savings calculations and opportunities for the implementation of new Advanced Manufacturing equipment process engineering.
• Document the process flow and procedures for the Destruction of seeds and the handling of culls in the plant
• Tracking and managing special capital projects and their ROI.

 // SAP Production Process Management (Process orders & Material & Ledger Better analysis):

• Support SAP and Plant administrators with process orders on a regular basis, be consistent with Process Order checks to ensure accuracy.
• Ensure good end-to-end process order flow Business critical tasks:

• Reconciling Grower payments.
• Support where needed stock counts in the plants & reconciliations.
• Conducting internal audit on procedures and production cycles in SAP.
• Collaborating with global external auditors to get the audited financial statements signed off.
• Support & Guidance on Cost Centre & P&L allocations, Imports and Exports procedures for intercompany purposes.
• Play an important part in identifying external and internal risks and security threats.

// Involvement with Commercial business and Business Analyst:

• Provide monthly COGS per country & PII release entries.
• Analysis of Seed Treatment variations, comparing to prior forecast and budget.
• Calculating LRP information for Seeds & Traits business (COGSiia, COGSiib, D&O).
• Explaining any Upside/Downside compared to prior forecast & Budget (COGS, Pricing, Volume, ECA, Parity, NSC etc.)

// Systems Management:

• SAP – Inventory management (Stock control and procedures).
• SAP – Cost Accounting and Balance sheet reconciliations.
• SAP – Process order management.
• Oracle Hyperion Financial Management.
• Implementation of Material Ledger in SAP.

 Key Working Relations

// East Africa PS functions, Site Managers, Supply chain, planning and quality

// Finance and Controlling

// Procurement and Safety

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

// Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related business field, Chartered accountant (CA Malawi) or similar

// At least 5 years’ experience

// Experience in agriculture, manufacturing or seed industry is an added advantage

// Experience in cost accounting

// Experience in inventory management

// Working experience of SAP a plus

// Have good relationships all-round and networking skills

// Of good temperament and ability to communicate at all levels

// Ability to manage and motivate people

// Able to prioritise and deliver tasks on time (time management)

// Excellent presentation skills

// Strong business acumen