People PPM Manager

Dreaming big is in our DNA. Its who we are as a company. Its our culture. Its our heritage. And more than ever, its our future. A future where were always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet lifes moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together when we combine your strengths with ours is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key purpose of this role is to manage budgeting, forecasting, tracking, and monitoring activities for the People Package within Zone and ZHQ functions. This includes analysing People KPIs, FTE, and payroll to drive performance improvements, as well as identifying and tracking synergy opportunities with Procurement, Rewards, and People teams.

Key Outputs and Responsibilities:

• People Package annual budgeting which includes the communication of guidelines, synergy targets to the country People Leads and ZBB Managers
• Final approved budget for ZBB on the People Package to meet the Overheads target and drive synergy
• People Package monthly tracking and monitoring, to review variances against the budget, risks and opportunities
• Analysis to support the People country leads and Director in managing costs and identifying opportunities to ensure the budget is delivered
• People Package monthly forecasting to align with the ZBB timelines and input for the country and BU EBITDA forecasting
• Forecasting for the P&L and ZBB to ensure that the budget is met and opportunities and risks are communicated timeously
• People KPI tracking
• Consolidation and tracking of People KPIs for the People Director to report on in the monthly functional and BU leadership meeting
• Adhoc projects and analysis
• Provide analysis and key recommendations based on the project objective and expected outcomes
• Expected insights on performance to assist leadership team with decision making
• Find solutions to problems
• Work across cross functional teams to develop solutions to problems
• Drive policy compliance
• Adherence to the local and global ZBB policies Role has a great impact in analysing People Package performance contributing 50% of the Overheads budget.
• Identification of Risks and Opportunities to be shared with the People Director, Finance Director and BU Presidents.
• Extrapolating synergy opportunities including follow up of key actions. Systems not readily available and information comes from input via the country People Leads.
• Decisions on key timelines, identifying opportunities and making recommendations for decisions to be taken by the leadership teams in the BU and functions

Minimum Requirements:

• A degree in Finance
• 3 to 5 years' experience in the business preferably in Supply or Commercial
• Dealing with Finance and Analytics
• Proficient knowledge and experience in PowerPoint and
• Excel for working on analysis and presentation
• SAP / Syspro and HFM system knowledge and experience is desirable
• Pro-active, diligent and well organised employee who can interact and communicate with members at all levels

Additional Information:

BAND: VI

SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing.