Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL) is a fully integrated beverage business in Diageo Africa (supply and demand for beer and spirits) It is a subsidiary of East Africa Breweries Limited (EABL), the largest business unit in Diageo Africa and the second largest listed company on the NSE in Kenya. SBL operates exclusively in Tanzania and is the second largest beer company with a market share of around 20%.
SBL flagship brand is Serengeti Premium Lager. Other brands in the portfolio include Tusker Lager, Guinness, Kibo Gold, Pilsner, and Senator. Headquartered in Dar es Salaam, SBL is also the distributor of several global Diageo international renowned spirits brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Gordon’s, Bailey’s and Captain Morgan.

Purpose of Role

CCE Business Partner will be the primarily CCE contact for the business, responsible for supporting and driving the full range of CCE activities across the business.  
Top 3-5 Accountabilities

1. Strategic leadership

• Acting as a champion for the controls agenda in business, providing specialist advice and continuously seeking opportunities to strengthen controls and our compliance culture.
• Quality assurance of functional controls frameworks, controls days and oversight of the CARM process in their business area
• Ensuring that actions are agreed and follow-up though in relation to gaps identified through the controls days, CARM and audit processes

2. Collaboration

• Cross-cutting activities such as CoBC inductions, Pathway of Pride, Risk Management, and Breach management.
• Actively contributing to the development and evolution of the SBL CCE strategy and leading its implementation in their area.  This includes identifying and pursuing opportunities to engage with individuals at all levels to understand how controls and compliance are perceived on the ground and the ethical challenges facing our teams and proposing opportunities to influence and support them in delivering results in a manner consistent with our legal, regulatory and ethical expectations
• sets out the controls for which the function is responsible, covers both the risks identified in the CARM framework and locally identified risk; and accurately reflects how the controls are operated in SBL

3. Supporting

• Supporting their Heads of Department to have in place a continuous assurance process (e.g. monthly control days) to ensure that the controls in their area are functioning effectively, including coaching and mentoring functional CCE Champions to assist in the process
• Leading reviews of specific high risk, high impact areas
• Aligning with heads of department on the control and compliance gaps to be addressed and ensuring that their teams are held accountable for delivering agreed actions
• Acting as a specialist adviser to the business across all areas of controls and compliance; identifying and supporting new and innovative ways to continually strengthen the controls and compliance environment in SBL

4. Facilitation and compliance training

• Facilitating the CARM certification process by acting as a liaison point between the testing team and the business and ensuring that CARM reporting is completed to the Diageo standard within the set timelines
• Ensuring that there is a sufficient and appropriate focus on compliance in their business area.
• Ensuring that appropriate consideration is given to compliance requirements for third parties through the Know Your Business Partner (KYBP) process

Qualifications and experience required

• Professional qualification in audit or accounting
• 7 years’ experience in risk based internal auditing or compliance
• Strong knowledge of compliance and policies
• Interpersonal relationship building skills and ability to engage at an executive level
• Proven ability to manage projects and facilitate business change
• Experience in supply chain will be an advantage