Supply Chain Finance Manager

Your tasks

▪️ Partner with operations: Provide practical financial insights and evaluate sourcing decisions, production capacity, capital investments, and logistics projects. ▪️ Lead costing and profitability analysis: Maintain accurate standard costs and bills of materials; analyze purchase prices, material usage, labor, overheads, and product margins to identify improvement opportunities. ▪️ Strengthen inventory control: Oversee stock counts, reconciliations, and accurate ERP inventory transactions across production sites, warehouses, and retail outlets. ▪️ Improve cash and efficiency: Reduce waste, shrinkage, and slow-moving inventory; assess stockholding and supplier payment terms with Procurement. ▪️ Plan and explain performance: Lead supply chain budgets and forecasts in close partnership with the FPamp;A Lead, translating cost drivers and variances into clear recommendations and actions. ▪️ Support transformation: Improve capital efficiency, overall reporting, systems, and financial controls, and track the benefits of cost and productivity initiatives. ▪️ Develop the team: Set clear priorities, coach team members, and strengthen capabilities across Costing and Inventory Control.

Requirements

✔️ Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field. ✔️ At least 7 years of relevant finance experience, including manufacturing or supply chain finance. ✔️ Proven people management experience, including coaching and developing finance teams. ✔️ Strong knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting and controls, budgeting, and variance analysis. ✔️ Food production or FMCG experience strongly preferred. ✔️ Strong Excel and ERP skills; experience with databases and reporting tools is an advantage. ✔️ Ability to influence operational teams, communicate clearly, and drive improvements in a growing business.