Associate Finance Manager, Agile PC
Scope: North America Personal Care
Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
JOB PURPOSE
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are motivated with driving impact, and unlocking value creation for Unilever’s largest BU then this role is just for you!
WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
The Associate Finance Manager will be aligned with our key business OKRs and play an integral role on cross-functional teams, to drive against our priorities and optimize our business performance.
By providing an integrated financial perspective on the impact of business decisions, the Associate Finance Manager makes recommendations and influences decisions that maximize value for the Personal Care business.
Serve as a strategic business partner for Personal Care strategies and priorities, as well as reporting. Critical to influencing Sales, Marketing and FBPs to improve decisions and execution focused on growth and profitability.
Spend a significant portion of time working on Agile projects. These will be based on business need and stakeholders involved will vary.
Support the mindset and behavior shift of the finance organization to embrace and effectively deploy agile working.
Demonstrates analytical abilities as well as a quantitative approach to decision-making that shape the overall strategic course of the organization.
Analyze financial results and key trends, assess current and future business risks, and communicate results to leadership.
Build and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional business partners to develop annual financial plans and ongoing forecasts with the ability to challenge the status quo.
Contribute to our culture of being collaborative, respectful, transparent, ethical, and efficient.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experiences & Qualifications
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Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; MBA or CPA preferred
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Minimum of five years of related financial planning and analysis experience with increasing responsibility and control
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Prior work experience in finance areas of Finance Business Partnering and S&OP beneficial.
Skills
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Drive insightful, fact-based decision-making through objective analysis and knowledge of our consumers and customers within our broad cross-functional team
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Provide an unbiased view of business risks and opportunities and evaluate trade-offs considering both short and long-term business targets
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Lead development of robust analyses to accelerate profitable growth through evaluating alternatives, important assumptions and ensure plans are re-aligned with relevant strategies
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Business partner with cross-functional teams, make recommendations and influence senior partners
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Review performance vs plans and understand variances to ensure appropriate actionable to further accelerate results or address issues
Leadership
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You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
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As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.
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Critical Behaviors
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DELIVER WITH EXCELLENCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
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FOCUS ON WHAT COUNTS: Prioritizes what matters, and does them brilliantly.
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CARE DEEPLY: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
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STAY THREE STEPS AHEAD: Think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance. High curiosity.
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INCLUSIVE LEADERS: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
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