Mill Finance Business Partner

Mill Finance Business Partner

Job Description

Mill Finance Business Partner, Epping Mill, Cape Town

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

In this role, you will:


* Provide timely and insightful information, analyses (e.g.

benchmark, mill performance, new product costing etc.) and recommendations to the mill manufacturing teams and others, and clearly highlight actionable opportunities for improving profitability and working capital, to guide management towards successfully achieving Kimberly Clark S.A.’s financial targets.


* Support Mill operations process streams in any analysis and costing requirements with information that can assist/influence important business decisions.


* Business partnering to support any business request for information and or analysis from Mill process streams that they require to support their areas of responsibility (product or category).


* Drive cost awareness across the mill by translating financial information into a story and operational targets.


* Manage the capital and operating lease processes of Kimberly Clark S.A., including the budgeting process, internal control appropriation analysis review as well as preparation, spending, reporting and document control.


* Advocate LEAN business practices, driving out waste by using LEAN problem-solving tools, practices and standard work across mill and wider analysis community.


* Act as the main financial point of contact for shared services, for providing necessary inputs in quarterly and monthly processes.


* Be the main receiver of reporting for mill finance from shared services for the purpose of review, or onward communication.


* Provide day-to-day on the job and off the job advise/guidance to employees and line managers in company financial policies, practices, and procedures to support the corporation’s program for strong financial control by reporting whenever corporate policies or instructions are not being followed.


* Lead the full internal plan in the facility including continuous improvement in the control environment by ensuring Corporate Financial Policies & Procedures are implemented, maintained, and adhered to, this includes SOX (Regulation Framework) related test and reporting as well.


* Implement, manage, and maintain up to date accounting and reporting systems, which will enable the department to obtain and distribute accurate information that is relevant.


* Lead preparation, review of realistic mill forecasts (monthly, quarterly and annually) on timel...