Upfield Recruitment for Finance Project Regional Deployment Lead

Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for Upfield Recruitment for Finance Project Regional Deployment Lead.

Upfield is a consumer packaged goods company that sells multiple brands of margarine and other food spreads. It includes brands such as Flora, Stork, and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!. Upfield was spun off from Unilever and purchased by investment firm KKR in 2018.

Job Description

• Company: Upfield
• Location: Tema, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
• State: Tema

Main Responsibilities

• • Provide leadership and experience to full deployment team in region
  • Manage the deployment of the integrated Global Template for Upfield incorporating new processes, systems, data & reporting across a single geographic region (East & West Africa)
  • Support the In-Country Leads to execute their role, providing coaching and guidance.
  • Ensure a common approach is taken by all country/cluster leads and methodologies/learning are leveraged across the region
  • Manage the optimal allocation of deployment specialists across the region
  • Liaise with the Global Template team, to identify and resolve local issues
  • Shadow earlier deployment to build expertise in processes and deployment
  • Support the central team in communications with countries/clusters
  • Filter’ questions/issues going into the central team to support country /cluster leads
  • Definition, ownership, and maintenance of the Regional Plan, RAID log, resourcing and budgets
  • Establish and maintain regular Programme meetings including managing Regional readiness and adherence to the stage-gate process
  • Manage the dependencies between the Global Template Design & Build team and the Country deployment teams
  • Support the Country Deployment Leads to deliver the deployment via in-country cross-functional business and IT deployment teams
  • Overall accountable for successful Finance deployment in country/cluster
  • Ensure robust plans in place
  • Track progress vs plan
  • Manage risks and issues and escalate to Regional Deployment lead as appropriate

Capabilities –

• Experience of Managing Global Deployments on a global basis of large scale ERP systems / Global business templates. Managing Global Programmes
• Experienced Financial Controller with 3 years minimum on an FC role
• Managing in a dynamic, fast-paced programme, preferably in the FMCG sector.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should CLICK HERE to apply.