Rohan Laas

Led the establishment of the finance function from scratch, including systems, processes, and governance frameworks. Designed and implemented financial controls, reporting structures, and SOPs. Built and managed a finance team of four. Owned the full site P&L across manufacturing, warehousing. Delivered financial reporting and insights to drive operational and strategic decisions. Led financial routine, cost analysis, and financial planning for a rapidly scaling operation.

- Main scope of work is the end to end process of the fixed cost for 10 operations in Africa, from budgeting, monthly reporting to forecasting. - Cross-functional collaboration to analyse expenses and identify cost reduction and efficiency initiatives. - Accountability management by bringing visibility to functional owners.

- Perfored price variance analysis on raw materials. - Collaborated between Supply and Treasury to manage commodity and forex exposures for hedging purposes. - Facilitated the annual budgeting process.

- Main scope of work is the end to end process of the fixed cost for the biggest operation in Africa, from budgeting, monthly reporting to forecasting. - Cross-functional collaboration to analyse expenses and identify cost reduction and efficiency initiatives. - Accountability management by bringing visibility to functional owners.

- Implemented a standardized sales mix variance model across African markets. - Supported innovation business case reviews using ROI, NPV, and payback period calculations.

- Centralized and standardized logistics KPIs across Africa operations post SABMiller and AB-Inbev Merger - Conducted ad-hoc analyses