FET (Finance Excellence) Analyst - Overheads

ABOUT UNILEVER
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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 senior Finance professional to join the Finance Excellence Team (FET) team. The role will support the FET Manager in driving overheads discipline, achievement of control on the Local overheads spend and operational excellence across all EWA countries. It contributes to the effectiveness of the financial planning and reporting processes while ensuring sufficient control and Overheads target achievement. If this is what you are looking for, then this role is just for you!
WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
1) Overheads Process excellence:
• Annual IBP cycle – ensure robust bottom up build of the Overheads budget, ensuring sufficient challenge and support for all inputs.
• Ensure quality forecast of Overheads cost in the monthly / quarterly S&OP by obtaining and challenging inputs from stakeholders
• Operationally, accountable for creation of new Cost Centres, and master data elements related to Overheads, while adhering to relevant controls.
• Collate and review the inputs received from various stakeholders
• Ad-hoc Overheads scenario analysis and reporting as required
2) Role in Month end:
• Be the primary lead on the Overheads Month end process and be accountable for meeting all quality and time criteria for this task.
• Responsible for all accruals and journals related to Overheads during Month end. Challenge as necessary to ensure simplification and journal reduction.
• Coordinating various stakeholders, including offshore Uniops team to ensure Month End activities are performed on time with drivers for performance are clearly defined and any corrective action needed is closed timely.
• Ensuring submission of MEC related reports to various stakeholders on time and of good quality.
• Responsible to present Month / Quarter results to in country teams and ensure appropriate sign-offs
3) Perfomance Review and analytics

• Land automation, specifically the Overheads dashboard and related simplification and standardisation.

• Land insightful analytics on Overheads spend across different metrics to inform business decisions

• Drive achievement of the Overheads target monthly through tracking spend versus budget and proactive liaison with stakeholders

• Responsible for identifying risks and opportunities within the Overheads cost buckets and driving mitigations.

• Ad-hoc analysis and reports to drive business performance

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experiences & Qualifications
• Professional Finance qualification equivalent to CPA Finalist, CIMA or ACCA
• Minimum 3 - 5 years’ experience in cost management across all disciplines in Finance and business partnering.
• High level of confidentiality and compliance to company policies on data privacy based on information handled.
• Experience working with diverse stakeholder groups within a multinational or multi-country organisation set up.
• Should be able to demonstrate 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 Behaviors

• Care Deeply: We care deeply about how consumers experience our brands every day, everywhere; about our people’s growth and development, and our impact on the planet. We care about our performance, to a point where it hurts when we don’t win.

• Focus on What Counts: We ruthlessly prioritise what truly matters, and so do fewer things brilliantly. We set clear goals & direction and recognise others for maximum impact.

• Stay Three Steps Ahead: We think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance. We are always curious and confident - anticipating and staying ahead of consumer needs and external trends, to beat the competition.

• Deliver with Excellence: We deliver excellence in what we do at pace. We take personal ownership and hold each other to account – always finding a way to do what we said we will do.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates 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.