Altus Bruwer

Financial Manager of the Gqeberha Manufacturing Site, bottling 75 million liters of Wine, Spirits and RTD's.

• Manage and align Budget & Forecast processes
• Meaningful and value adding financial reporting
• Excise Financial responsibility
• Management of Capex, Fixed assets and Stock
• Management of Risk, Policy and Procedure
• People management
• Continuous Innovation and business improvement in support of operation and segment goals
• Business plan formulation and implementation for BU and Finance department
• Stand-in duties for the General Manager
• Acting General Manager - August 2016 to November 2016
• Member of Management Team winning Best End-End Manufacturing Site 2 years in a row.

• Oversaw all aspects of the month-end close process, ensuring timely completion of accurate financial statements for review.
• Ensure complete, accurate and timeous financial reporting.
• Support management with financial information, details of transactions and interpretation of expenses.
• Assist in preparation of annual budgets and forecasts.
• Support and assist managers in compiling Operating and Capital budgets.
• Control submission of Capital requests to Head Office and provide feedback to managers once approved.
• Prepare status reports on the capital and abnormal maintenance budget.
• Ensure financial month-end processes are adhered in accordance to company policy.
• General Ledger management and reconciliation of general ledger accounts.
• Complete nominal reconciliations and follow up long outstanding items.
• Assessment and monitoring of cost and operational improvements to help improve the cost position.
• Stand-in for excise requirements and duties.
• Monitoring compliance with internal control checklists (Audits).
• Perform internal audits.
• Investigate and evaluate all Liquor and Material (standard cost) variances.
• Settlement of Production Orders.
• Investigate, follow up and reporting of Production Order variances.
• Assist Cellar in resolving bulk variances.
• Assist Financial Manager with ad-hoc projects and investigations.

• Financial controlling, accounting and financial administration for the Service Division.
• Establishment of monthly financial and performance reports.
• Budget compilation, forecasting and analysis of the financial and administrative performance of the Service Division.
• Design, Analysis and Constant improvement of processes and results and the definition of action items to achieve the set goals.
• General Ledger management.
• Reconciliations monthly of major balance sheet accounts.
• Control of WIP, deferred cost & income, accruals and provisions.
• Compilation of monthly financial management accounts and reports for Service managers.
• Conducting deviation analysis between actual and budget, and provide recommendations of productivity increases and cost savings.
• Participate in strategic planning, budgeting and monthly forecasting
• Ad Hoc reports and decision modelling

• Preparation of Financial Statements
• Monthly VAT work for clients
• General Accounting work
• Auditing
• Taxation

• Control revenue and costs of Consumer Direct Department, which includes Subscriptions Marketing-, Fulfillment- and Database Marketing Departments.
• Allocate costs and revenues to correct cost centres and finance codes.
• Recharging and reconciling holding accounts to appropriate magazines (cost centres) and issues.
• Raising invoices for subscriptions sold by agents.
• Preparing journals on Oracle and using ADI.
• Preparing reports on Excel and Oracle.
• Handling supplier queries.
• Releasing invoices for payment on Oracle.
• Handling queries from employees in Marketing and Fulfillment departments.
• Financial system used: Oracle 11i Financials

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