Finance Lead

Finance Lead

Job Description

Finance Lead - Bryanston, Johannesburg

Advert closing date: end of day, 14th April 2025

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.

Finance lead, partnering with the SSA Commercial lead and driving financial performance across the business unit.

As P&L owner, you will have responsibility to lead, challenge and influence business planning, commercial analysis and key strategic decisions to ensure results delivery in both current year and 3 year Strategic Planning  timeframe.

It starts with YOU. 

In this role, you will:


* Co-pilot and P&L ownership for the business unit alongside SSA Commercial Leads in Family Care (Consumer), Personal Care (Consumer)  and Professional (B2B)


* Development of annual plans for the business unit, set challenging goals and targets and ensure consistent delivery of financial commitments on a monthly / quarterly / annual basis


* Ownership of top-line forecast and commercial analysis to support strategy execution, strengthen in-market performance and improve overall decision making to deliver both top line growth and margin improvement


* Financial leadership across the business unit’s commercial finance including Revenue Management, Innovation & Portfolio Management, Investment ROI (A&P and Capex)


* Collaborate across Finance function within SSA / EMEA CFO, Delivered Cost, Controllership, Global Business Services, Management Information Delivery with a “CFO mindset” for the business unit

About Us

Huggies®.

Kleenex®.

Cottonelle®.

Scott®.

Kotex®.

Poise®.

Depend®.

Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world.

In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day.

We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact.

We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity.

It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose.

Driven by You

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference.

At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring...