FET Analyst - EWA

Unilever is currently hiring for FET Analyst- East and West Africa

Reports to: EWA FET Manager  

Scope: East and West Africa (EWA)

Location: Kenya or any of the EWA countries

Terms & Conditions: Full time

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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.  This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and passionate Financial Planning & Reporting Analyst to join the Finance Excellence Team (FET) team. The role will support the FET Manager in driving Performance Management, P&L scenario analysis and preparing relevant reports that provide strategic insights and inform high impact financial decisions.  It contributes to the effectiveness of the financial planning cycles and of the governance process for investments. If this is what you are looking for, then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Planning and Forecasting:

Intensely drive the Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) process quarterly

• Enforce S&OP and forecasting timetable across ALL East & West Africa (EWA) markets

• Lead Cash up of S&OP outcomes, ensuring timely closure of the same

• Collate and review the inputs received from various stakeholders

• Perform variance analysis S&OP vs previous S&OP to check for errors and make sure major drivers are understood

• Compile a list of risks and opportunities from every market to support the FET manager to calculate a contingency for the region

• Maintain list of assumptions used for S&OP

• Lead the Financial FC submission for East Africa and EWA countries as assigned

• Ad-hoc P&L scenario analysis and reporting as required  

Key Stakeholders: EWA GM, EWA Head of Finance, Country GMs, Commercial Finance leads, Supply Chain Finance lead

Role in Month end:

• Be the primary lead on the Month end process and be accountable for meeting all quality and time criteria for this task.

• Coordinating various stakeholders, including offshore Uniops team to ensure Month End activities are performed on time, all variances are clearly investigated and documented in line with the reporting standards.

• Ensuring submission of MEC related reports to global and Uniops on time and of good quality.

• Responsible to present Month / Quarter results to in country teams and ensure appropriate sign-offs

Performance Review and analytics

• Support FET manager to lead a performance review with different Leadership teams

• Ad-hoc analysis and reports to drive business performance

• Support in preparing Targets and tracking Actuals vs the targets, including identifying interventions needed to mitigate any risks & opportunities.  

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Professional Finance qualification equivalent to CPA Finalist, CIMA or ACCA

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Financial Planning & Reporting, Commercial Finance or similar roles.

• Experience working with diverse stakeholder groups within a multinational or multi-country organisation set up.

• Should be able to demonstrate significant understanding of the P&L construct, key drivers across different lines and ability to influence business performance.  

• Experience with data analytics, or data visualisation tools (Power BI etc)

Skills

• Mastery and excellence in usage of Excel and any key ERP (SAP preferred).

• Good communication and presentation skills

• Analytical thinking, problem solving attitude

• Ability to influence across different stakeholder groups including diverse geographical and cultural contexts.

• Significant data analytics skills

• Team leadership capability

Leadership

• 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.

• 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.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.