Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for Upfield Recruitment 2021.
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
Job Title: Finance Analyst
Main Responsibilities:
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OVH, BMI, and Forecasting
- Management reporting including Financial forecasting/budgeting and longer-term strategic planning processes
- Managing and reporting of OVHs and BMI costs
- Ensure correct bookings of costs in P&L as per SCOA
- Forecast working capital
- Support related budget owners
- Provide assistance in forecasting and other ad-hoc business analysis
- OC Governance, continuous improvement on rule based journals + controls
- Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU
P2P Analysis
- P2P OC Governance, continuous Improvement on P2P Processes + controls
- Working Capital forecasting, reporting and commentary;
- Partnering BMI and Overheads teams with P2P processes
- P2P Metrics – POT (Payment on time), POC (PO Compliance), FPY (First Pass Yield) – working with/ supporting OC with directive to improve metrics
- Approval of urgent/ manual payments
- Query Escalations from business on poor service/ issues
- Resolve audit queries which IBM/ OC cannot resolve
- GRNI support
- Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU.
O2C and credit controls
- Manage customer overdues across all customers
- Improve working capital through management of customer payment performance and trade term compliance
- Manage and mitigate bad debt and minimise bad debt provision
- Work with the shared service teams to ensure effective and aligned communication and deliverables are met
- Worked with shared service teams to ensure that accounts are reconciled correctly, customer statements issued in a timely manner
- Work with shared service and other internal functions to ensure that customer claims are placed in a timely manner and support the resolution of deductions on customer accounts
- Ensure accurate and timely month end reporting
- Support first line investigation and resolution of EDI issues
- Raise manual accruals for sales trade terms
- Prepare and validate rebate review
- Allocate promotional invoices against correct rebates
- Resolve deductions, disputed claims that IBM cannot resolve with the sales team
- Provided support for statutory reporting requirements
Skills, experience, and qualifications:
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- A very strong academic record
- Excellent understanding of financial metrics and FFG Financial processes
- Very strong track record of delivery in previous Finance roles
- Very strong work ethic, resilience in the face of pressure, good team player, ability to meet multiple stretching deadlines, great communication skills and excellent attention to detail
- Strong analytical bias and Microsoft Excel skills
- PowerPoint capability
How to Apply
Interested applicants should CLICK HERE to apply.
