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Guinness Nigeria Plc Recruiting Corporate Communications Manager

Job Description



Guinness Nigeria Plc
 is one of the largest beverage companies in Nigeria. It is quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and a significant player within the Nigerian Economy. Guinness Nigeria Plc’s vision is to become the most celebrated company in Nigeria.
Guinness Nigeria Plc invites applications to fill the vacant position of:

Job Title: Corporate Communications Manager

Level: L4
AutoReqId: 32959BR
Function: Corporate relations
Type of Job: Full Time – Exempt
Reports To: Director of Corporate Relations
Scope
The Corporate Relations function is committed to support the achievement of the vision by transforming Guinness Nigeria Plc to become trusted and respected by our key stakeholders every day, everywhere.  We recognise that everything we do, everything we say and everything our key stakeholders say about us define our reputation. We want to earn recognition for our amazing people, our unrivalled brand portfolio, our outstanding performance as a business, and our success as an innovator in everything that we do and for our commitment to the communities that we operate in.

Purpose of Role

This role is to help Guinness Nigeria achieve its vision by defining and driving standards of leadership in our brand and corporate reputations as well as ensuring our leaders are able to effectively engage all employees across the business.
Key Accountabilities
  • Develops, manages and implements an integrated communication strategy
  • Builds Guinness Nigeria’s reputation by maintaining overview of communication needs, issues and opportunities across stakeholders within and outside Nigeria.
  • Drives the creation of best practice leadership communications and engagement within Guinness Nigeria
  • Contributes to the formulation of strategy for the organisation ensuring that all communication policies and programmes support the organization’s overall strategic direction
  • Manages a comprehensive employee communications strategy and plan that directly supports the business strategy, vision and values and uses a range of appropriate tools that are measurable
  • Responsible for the development, management and evaluation of communication initiatives in line with plan e.g. weekly newsletter, leadership communications and project communications
  • Participates actively in crisis teams, ensuring communication plans are up to date
  • Manages a robust and integrated employee communications forum to facilitate sharing of best practice, cross-functional working and management of timely corporate and brand communication(s)
  • Ensures message consistency and adoption of communication principles through building relationships with all key functions, audiences and coaching of Guinness Leadership Team
  • Leads communications for major business initiatives and events
Qualifications, Skills and Experience Required
  • Bachelor degree and post graduate qualification in PR, marketing or journalism is preferable
  • Minimum 8 years experience working at a strategic level on business or brand related communications
  • Superior writing and oral communication skills
  • Proven track record of managing communication’s issues in a sensitive / controversial environment
  • Proven track record in communications and communication strategy development
  • Capable of leading the communications planning process and facilitating broader involvement in this process
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com
  • Line manager experience and a track record of leading, developing & coaching a team
Key Relationships
Internal:
  • Leadership and Extended Leadership Teams
  • Project Teams
  • Brand Managers
  • Other corporate communications managers within Diageo
External:
  • Media
  • Agencies
  • Consultants
  • Events management companies
  • Printers
Key Success Factors
  • Works collaboratively across the organisation
  • Builds and motivate teams to consistently deliver great performance
  • Understands business strategy as well as employee needs and develops plans to deliver against both Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com
  • Works flexibly and responds with agility to unforeseen challenges / opportunities at short notice
Application Closing Date
5th July, 2012

How To Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Guinness Nigeria Plc: Finance Process Improvement Manager


Job Description



Guinness Nigeria Plc
 is a continually growing organization that requires every aspect of the business to be ahead of the game in supporting the business’s ambitious growth strategy. The Company has implemented Systems Applications Products (SAP), a fully integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system covering Purchase To Pay (PTP), Order To Cash (OTC), Record To Report (RTR), Data management and Manufacturing. It also included outsourcing of back office operations to the Shared Services Centre operated by Accenture in Manila, as well as adoption of support systems such as Demand Solutions, Business Warehouse and Concur. These are also supported by the paying platforms of Remita, Citi-direct and such like.
We are recruiting to fill the below position:
Job Title: Finance Process Improvement Manager – PTP & RTR
Level: L5 (M1)
AutoReqId: 32953BR
Function: Commercial
Type of Job: Full Time – Exempt
Reports To: Controls and Governance Manager
Key Relationships
The Finance Process Improvement Manager – PTP & RTR works closely with the following internal and external stakeholders:
  • Orderers, end users and Super users
  • Global Diageo Business Services (GDBS) – Nigeria team
  • Data Manager
  • IT application support team members
  • PTP & RTR Global Work streams, Business System Transformation (BST) for Africa
  • Diageo Segregation Of Duties (SOD) Community.
  • Commercial Leadership team
  • External Consultants
Key Accountabilities
  • Drives effective controls and process adherence for RTR and PTP through in-market Key Performance indicators (KPIs) tracking and effective engagement of stakeholders, escalating exception reports, etc
  • Ensures adequate system access for users in SAP through implementation of Schedule of limits and Authority
  • Ensures full & updated documentation of policies, procedures and processes in RTR/PTP and ensures that they are readily available to relevant users
  • Coordinates and works with a network of Global Process Owners, End-users, outsourced Global Diageo Business Services/Accenture Manila teams, Orderers and in market Super Users to achieve their targeted process performance and outcomes
  • Drives controls in anti-money laundering initiatives
  • Monitors the performance of key controls through the Finance Department (FD) control checklist
  • Ensures that Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans for Finance are in place
  • Co-ordinates the SAP implementation of new policies, procedures or controls pertaining to authority and limits in RTR & PTP  as well as segregation of duties
  • Ensures that relevant, accurate, and timely process management information is available
  • The role holder is a process expert and co-ordinates training interventions as required in the market, represents the market on all Global scenes regarding RTR and PTP process improvement and governance
  • Develops, tests, documents and implements improvements to PTP and RTR processes
Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required
  • Minimum of five (5) years post qualification experience with proven integrity
  • Cognate experience, process and working knowledge of SAP especially procure to pay (PTP) and record to report (RTR) modules
  • Good university degree preferably in Social/Management Sciences or Engineering disciplines
  • Professional membership  of ACCA/ Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria
  • CISA is an added advantage
  • Sound knowledge of financial controls
  • Proven Project management skills
  • Ability to effectively manage and track Key Performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Proven ability to facilitate, persuade, influence and build credibility with all levels and all functions with good communication and presentation skills
  • Strong analytical, interpretative, solution finding and decision-making skills
  • Ability to take commercial insights and translate into the Organisation & People Agenda including good customer service
  • Sound IT knowledge in the use of Microsoft office tools
  • Barriers to Success in Role
  • Ineffective engagement and inability to drive process adherence and system based controls
Application Closing Date
5th July, 2012

How To Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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