Job Openings at Mondelez International Inc

Mondelez International, Inc. empowers people to snack right in over 160 countries around the world. We’re leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Cadbury Bournvita, TomTom, Cloret, and Trident gum.  Our 90,000+ colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Procurement Lead (West Africa)

Job Requisition ID: R-85836
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full time

Job Description

• In this role, you are the single point of contact for local leaders in a specific geographic or plant location.
• You manage the interactions between business stakeholders and sourcing teams and collaborate across the manufacturing, supply chain and the commercial business.
• You also manage the local implementation of regional and/or global projects.

How you will contribute

• You will execute the daily procurement agenda by acting as the single point of contact for the procurement function at a site, in a country or country cluster, and will oversee the daily interaction with plants, supply chain, commercial teams, quality assurance, sourcing teams and suppliers.
• You will also deliver service-level targets by ensuring material availability, escalating when needed, and support business continuity planning implementation, activating when needed, support the execution of sourcing projects and execute sourcing/spot-buying or contracting activities as agreed with the accountable spend areas, and own the source-to-pay process compliance key indicators and take corrective action when necessary

More About this Role
What you need to know about this position:

• Drives the procurement agenda for the West Africa Cluster (Nigeria, Ghana) acting as the single point of contact for the WA LT for the Procurement function.
• The position assists with the execution of short-term and long-term strategies that align with the company goals for reducing costs, improving cash and achieve other company financial goals.
• Translates WA Cluster goals on sustainable growth, value delivery and other business needs into effective procurement action plans, partnered and aided by suppliers.
• Assesses near-term and long-term plans to establish supplier priorities balanced with business needs; consults with management, and other subject experts to develop alternative solutions; advises on options, risks, total cost of ownership, and business impacts. Location based procurement leader across all spend towers, categories, and operations team.
• As a member of the SSA procurement leadership team and WA Cluster MSC leadership team, the position directly leads a team of Procurement Specialists to support the Cluster and leads the larger Cluster based global procurement colleagues, if any, owning the overall engagement and career agenda.
• The Procurement lead has managerial responsibility for end-to-end procurement for West Africa (Nigeria and Ghana).

Key Deliverables

• Financial Metrics: COGS Productivity, Cash & Comm/Fx and Non-COGS Productivity impacting WA Cluster P&L
• Supplier Performance and Development: Enhancing metrics on OTIF, building, and executing robust BCP to drive sustained growth (effective use of SLEA). Mapping and developing adequate supplier capacities with efficient geographical network. Focus on localization to optimize imports. Scope includes Internal and External Manufacturing/copacking within cluster
• Operational responsibility for External Manufacture
• Process Excellence: Partnering the global Procurement Capability function to implement new age technologies locally, including training and tool adoption. Delivery of best-in-class Source-to-Pay (STP) process metrics. Adherence to the Global Procurement policy (GPP), Contract excellence with good audit results. Focus on sensitive areas ion, assessment, and closure of control gaps.
• Market Intelligence: Generation and analysis of market data for local commodities, to facilitate coverage, pricing, and forecasting
• Quality and Food Safety: Ensuring adherence to MDLZ internal standards and compliance to external govt/regulatory norms. Effective management of Quality Notifications (QN) and Non-conformances Partnering closely with the QFS team
• Execution Excellence: Partnerships with Global Business Services team to drive third party engagements effectively with stated value delivery on global procurement programs.
• People and Engagement: Enabling wider organizational programmes around engagement and careers, providing coaching and relevant exposure to colleagues as needed.

Education / Certifications

• Relevant Degree / National Diploma
• More than 5 years of Procurement practitioner experience, broad background across different business functions
• At least 7 years of Managerial experience (3 of which must be in managing teams in Procurement)
• Strong people Management and Skills Development

Job Specific Requirements

• Develop and deliver local strategy plans through a comprehensive understanding of supplier offerings and their relative capabilities within the BU to support localization of suppliers where applicable
• Develop and partner with key strategic suppliers, who are highly capable, flexible to the complexities of our business and able to unlock value through re-engineering in the local market.
• Manage all Internal Stakeholders in the Cluster on all procurement related matters, support local purchasing requests in collaboration with the Spend Area Organization and in alignment with the MDLZ Global Procurement operating model
• Drive productivity for the West Africa Cluster and lead the procurement interface on all new product development within the cluster through efficient NPD/Innovation support/delivery.
• Responsible for delivering cost and cash as well as execution of day-to-day operational procurement activities in west Africa to ensure all purchase requirements for country are served with the lowest possible cost, at the right quality and delivery timings while complying with Mondelez global procurement policy.
• Drive productivity for the West Africa Cluster and lead the procurement interface on all new product development within the cluster through efficient NPD/Innovation support/delivery.
• Work with global or regional Spend Area teams to implement contracts locally and to provide local specifics and insights as required to ensure compliance with local governance requirements.

What you will bring:

• A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:
  • Procurement
  • Customer service orientation
  • Communication and interpersonal skills that help you be proactive and manage stakeholders
  • Problem solving to ensure timely resolution of challenges
  • Working well under pressure, managing multiple priorities, dealing with ambiguity, and the willingness and ability to learn

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Takes responsibility and accountable
• Highly Analytical
• Able to build relationship with key stakeholders
• Passion and courage, leads by example
• Effective communicator
• Ability to coordinate, prioritises and plan effectively with strong execution abilities
• Ethical and works within governance

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Note: Mondelez International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

2.) Senior Analyst/ Internal Controls

Job Requisition ID: R-81994
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full time

Job Brief

• Under strong leadership from your manager, you will support local financial and operational managers to understand and enhance internal control environments, risks, and mitigation activities to minimize the risks of financial losses, operational inefficiencies an statutory non-compliances caused by lack of controls or effective governance.
• You will also conduct deep-dive analyses on risk areas, provide training on controls and support management in control self-assessments.

Job Responsibilities
You will:

• Support internal controls processes for a country or a process including partnering with management to optimize the internal control environment through review of controls, design, training, monitoring (CCM) and testing (SOX, Control Self Assessments -CSA)
• Conduct advisory reviews on the identified risk areas. You will also support management in SOX testing and driving the control self-assessment exercise.
• Address ad hoc requests by management as it relates to process, risks and controls. You will also provide training on policy and controls
• Contribute to a strong controls and compliance environment at Mondel?z International by providing expert assessment of our policy and controls effectiveness and organization compliance
• Embrace a mindset of continuous improvement. You will also identify opportunities to improve ways of working in your area of responsibility
• Contribute to a high-performing Internal Controls team. You will also invest in personal development

Requirements
What you need to know about this position:

• To succeed in this role, it is expected that the applicant should possess:
  • At least Six (6) years of cognate experience (preferably in any of the big four (4) Audit firm).
  • Minimum of First Degree, preferably in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
  • ACA/ACCA/CIMA is ideal etc.

What you will bring:

• A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
  • Technical Expertise in internal controls and audit practices including expertise in risk/control frameworks, enterprise risk management processes, financial policies and procedures, U.S. GAAP/IFRS and SOX requirements
  • Business Acumen and a general understanding of business practices along with relevant external/internal audit experience in a Big Four accounting firm and/or in a large global corporation. General understanding of enterprise resource planning applications
  • Leadership Skills including proven business partnering and communication skills across a large, global, public company; experience driving a compliance environment
  • Growth/Digital Mindset and the ability to leverage technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools
  • Integrity and sound judgement in all decisions and interactions aligned with our values and policies and external regulations

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Note: Mondelez International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

3.)Senior Analyst /Accounting & External Reporting

Job Requisition ID: R-85440
Job Location: Lagos
Work schedule: 40 hours/week

Job Description

• Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondel?z International?
• Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.
• Under broad supervision, you will reconcile and adjust general ledger accounts and/or bank statements.
• You may also perform moderately complex analyses of performance results.
• In addition, you will compile, consolidate, and analyze accounting and finance information for financial statements and reports and perform other special projects as assigned.

How you will contribute
You will:

• Support accounting and external reporting activities including accurate and timely U.S. GAAP reporting and timeliness and integrity of statutory financial reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, KPIs, fixed assets, restructuring and intercompany charges. As required, you will support activities performed by Mondel?z International Business Services/third-party service providers during month/quarter /year-end close, statistical reporting and statutory audit
• Perform moderately complex analysis of performance results as requested
• Embrace a mindset of continuous improvement. You will also identify ways of working in your area of responsibility
• Contribute to strong controls and compliance environment and comply with Mondel?z International’s AER policies. Support audit activities and provide information on auditors' request
• Contribute to a high-performing Accounting and External Reporting (AER) team. Invest in personal development and contribute to the overall development of peers and the AER team.

What you need to know about this position:

• The position coordinates and manages financial reporting activities and US GAAP reporting during month-end close processes for the business in West Africa (Nigeria & Ghana).
• In this role, you will foster a strong connection with the regional team and when appropriate, with the corporate controlling team to ensure full compliance with Mondel?z International’s Accounting and External Reporting (AER) policies and to ensure that we are adopting U.S. GAAP accounting standards in a timely manner.
• This entails working with our Mondel?z International Business Services organization to drive accurate preparation and timely reporting and to ensure proper reconciliations for all accounts in the market.
• You will also ensure that we comply with all local accounting standards, see to the timely filing of financial statements and of indirect tax returns/payments (e.g. VAT, WHT, PAYE e.t.c.) for our Ghana Entity.

Education / Certifications

• University Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics.
• 4 - 6 years of experience in statutory/ GAAP accounting / preferably in international business environment of a publicly listed entity
• Must be a member of ICAN, ACCA or its equivalent.

Job specific requirements:

• Deep knowledge of US GAAP / International Accounting Standards (for GAAP) Proficiency in MS office and SAP.
• Strong Communication and Presentation skills.
• Experience of working in a multicultural teams and environment.
• Team Player; ability to support and lead to achieve common goals.
• Problem solving: Proactive and resourceful in solving problems, offering innovative and practical solutions in dynamic environment.

What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• TECHNICAL EXPERTISE in accounting and external reporting including understanding U.S. GAAP, IFRS or local GAAP, close processes and financial reporting systems (SAP experience preferred). Knowledge in policy, controls and compliance design including SOX reporting
• BUSINESS ACUMEN and experience working in FMCG/CPG Industry or Big Four accounting preferred
• LEADERSHIP SKILLS including proven business partnering and communication skills. Experience working as a finance leader managing cross-functional and business partner teams to drive timely and accurate results
• GROWTH/DIGITAL MINDSET and the ability to leverage technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools and financial system knowledge
• INTEGRITY and sound judgement in all decisions and interactions aligned with our values, policies and external regulations.

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Note: Mondelez International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.