Job Title: PPM Manager
Organisation: Nile Breweries Limited
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
About Organisation:
Nile Breweries Limited is a leading beverage company in Uganda and a subsidiary of SABMiller, the second largest brewing group in the world. We aim to provide for a variety of career paths and patterns of working, a good work-life balance and comprehensive employee benefits.
Job Summary: The key purpose of this role is the full responsibility for planning, reporting and control cycle of Supply (VIC, FIC, ZBB) on a monthly, quarterly and year end base for the plant.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Annual Plan / Budget
- Adhere to all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements to the BU PPM Manager
- Review all budget calculations for BOMs and own the end-to-end process
- Lead the ZBB budget process for the plant and ensure all guidelines, templates and timelines are adhered to
- Lead the headcount and pay cost planning process for the plant
- Ensure all champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget while avoiding double counting
- Prepare management review presentations for Zone, respecting guidelines, templates and timelines
- Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (SCFD, SAP)
- Provide correct bottom-up VIC standards and actuals for MACO reporting
- Monthly Process (reporting / analysis / review / LE)
- Responsible for the preparation of a full year forecast outlook (LE) for the plant
- Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
- Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans
- Consolidate and report LE monthly to the BU Supply PPM team
- Review of new BOMs monthly as and when required
- Review of the plant P&L and validation that the results reported are accurate and there is no material misstatement
- Review of headcount & pay cost reporting on a monthly basis
- Leads the completion and presentation of the monthly plant T&M deck with the Plant Manager
- Monitors coherence between Budget, CAPEX and ZBB Performance of the Plant
- Responsible for monthly and year end closing activities in supply (esp.. validation of accruals)
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of financial results in line with approved policies & procedures
- Manage Relationship with Network of Capability Centre (NoCC ) for outsourced activities
- Tracks performance targets for the Brewery Operations to reach World Class Excellence Operational efficiency. (e.g. TEL calculation, by product income tracking, packaging & brewing beer loss etc.)
Ad Hoc
- Define recommendations to support Senior Management decisions
- Manage projects as required; participate in ad hoc projects
- Perform detailed analyses to determine cost opportunities at a plant level and participates actively in benchmarking activities
- Perform strategic studies to streamline the business
- Ensure the application of coherent definitions and reporting requirements.
- Mediate on behalf of Supply PPM on performance (P&L) issues/ conflicts across functions.
- SPOC for the Supply function towards Plant
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Relevant 3-year university degree in i.e., accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
- MBA / CPA/ ACCA would be advantageous
- 3+ years of experience in finance in a manufacturing environment
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Working in a multi-cultural environment
- High level of service mindset
- Coordination skills
- High sense for accuracy
- Communicative, team oriented and open for change
- Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner
- Basic business sense
- Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
- Used to working with deadlines
- Highly results focused
- Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
- Presentation skills
- Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
- Experience Product Costing
- Knowledge of Financial Reporting
- Knowledge of general accounting and consolidation practice
- Project management, problem assessment and solving skills
- Working in an ERP environment
- Working in a process-oriented organization
- Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools
- Knowledge of ERP Systems SAP S/4HANA / Syspro
How to Apply:
All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.
Deadline: 10th July 2025