Role Title: Foods Philippines Finance Lead
Location: Philippines
Job Summary:
In-country scope: Philippines Foods Finance: Lead the dedicated team in the country to provide guidance to the country Foods partners drive the business and financial performance of Country:
- Drive business planning and agree next year’s financial framework with leadership.
- Manage in year business performance to deliver to targets
- Drive long term business planning using the financial growth model (FGM).
- Support and challenge business decisions including but not limited to promotion/brand and marketing investment to achieve a superior sustainable financial performance.
- Independently provide financial information and analysis in a timely fashion with actionable recommendations for fi‐nance and business management
- Develop business cases to launch new products and business models, capital expenditure requirements or restructuring cases, as needed
- Budget management for BU-managed TTS, BMI, local Overheads
- Co-ordinate with Greater Asia finance teams in matters relating to country business, and support other financial analysis for Greater Asia Foods BU or Global/Greater Asia Foods Finance projects as needed.
- Support in preparing certain reports (e.g. monthly, quarterly, ad-hoc requests for Global reporting submission) as required.
Experience Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field. MBA or CPA/CMA certification is a plus.
- Four to Five years of experience in finance roles, including financial planning and analysis, financial reporting, and business partnering.
- Business partnering & performance management
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data and provide actionable insights. Relevant experiences preferred (e.g. FMCG/Finance partnering/Auditing/etc.)
- Team Leadership: Promote a shared vision and inspires others to embrace learning, experimentation, development.
- Personal Effectiveness: Effective and proven strategic planning, ability to learn quickly, handle multiple tasks and assignments simultaneously, resilient and determined to‐wards success. Calm in the face of ambiguity.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
- Good command of English.
We highly encourage applicants to exclude information on age, gender, and school/s in view of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Unilever assesses candidates based on skills, performance, experience and leadership.
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.
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