Unilever is Looking for Finance & Budget Lead at Bengaluru Full Time

JOB TITLE: Finance & Budget LeadLOCATION: UniOps,Bangalore

ABOUT UNILEVER:Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life – giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.

ABOUT UNIOPS:Unilever Operations (UniOps) is the global technology and operations engine of Unilever offering business services, technology, and enterprise solutions. UniOps serves over 190 locations and through a network of specialized service lines and partners delivers insights and innovations, user experiences and end-to-end seamless delivery making Unilever Purpose Led and Future Fit.

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Role

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home, and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 3.4 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum, and Lynx. Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose as Unilever is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.

At Unilever, we’re determined to achieve a culture where everyone can thrive, a culture where all individuals are treated fairly and respectfully, and where their uniqueness is celebrated. We’re taking a holistic approach that focuses on how we can use the scale and reach of our business to have the greatest impact in our own workplace and beyond. We’ve set clear goals to eliminate any bias and discrimination in our policies and practices, accelerate diverse representation in our leadership, and remove barriers for people with disabilities. At the same time, we’re setting out to spend more with diverse businesses and increasing representation of diverse groups in our advertising. Find out more about our work with equity, diversity, and inclusion on our website.

Unilever’s Cyber Security organization is a multi-disciplinary team responsible for protecting the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of our Information and Operations. Our Cyber Security organization runs a 24×7 Security Operations Centre, oversees a robust Security Architecture and associated technology landscape, provides Cyber Security Solution Engineering and Risk Advisory to our business, and assesses the security of our vast technology estate, including factories, to name but a few areas. Cyber Security sits as part of the Business Operations organisations, as a peer to Unilever’s Technology and Data functions and the broad Supply Chain agenda. Cyber Security is tasked with elevating, reporting on and influencing enterprise cyber security risk mitigation across Unilever. The CS function is made up of the Governance, Risk, Assurance, and Compliance (GRAC) team, the Tech & Ops team, the BISO teams, and the Office of the CISO.

Role Purpose:

Using a risk led, and threat informed approach, this role will manage cyber initiatives and projects across Unilever’s global organization. This role will work with teams across the wider organization to deliver cyber programmes as required by Unilever’s cyber strategy and transformation journey. This will necessitate working with key stakeholders to facilitate the running of cyber programmes across the business, ensuring timely completion and expected outcomes. The team is also responsible for creating procedures and best practices to help with effective project delivery as well as confirming project compliance to Unilever delivery standards.

Role Summary:

A vacancy exists for a Finance & Budget Lead within Unilever’s Cyber Security function. The successful candidate will be responsible for working with the Senior manager – PMO to ensure that the finance and budget for Unilever Cyber Security function is maintained and tracked effectively. They will work with key stakeholders across our organisation to facilitate finance & budget discussions for the lead team to focus on deliverables and deliver outcomes to expected timelines. This role will report to the Cyber Security Programme Manager in the Office of the CISO.

This role will support the Programme manager where required and ensure the alignment of Financials to Uniops Finance

They will also work on a wide range of complex projects (both finance management and embedding process), managing end to end finances and budget including tracking progress to the forecasts, actuals, change control procedures and quality and risk assessments. The role will play a key part in helping Unilever effectively manage cyber risk across the global organization.

The Finance & Budget lead is expected to:• Manage end to end finance operations, planning and analysis (upto multi millions) including both (BAU and ITIB) • Work with the various workstream leads and project teams to get an appropriate view of the Financial Forecast and spend view and present a consolidated view.• Work with Uniops Finance team to arrive at monthly accurate consumptions against the forecast • Work with the Uniops Finance team to be able to represent an accurate financial forecast across the quarterly financial timelines. • Work and manage internal team members to constantly have an upto date view of the spends, and a forward view of the upcoming spends.• Continually identify risks to delivery, propose solutions where necessary and effectively manage stakeholder expectations throughout.• Work with the project team to review the Business case for the projects and provide feedback.• Work with the teams to prepare for accurals, GR’s and prepayments.

Main Accountabilities

• Ensures business processes, administration, and financial management.• Leads planning and forecasting activities with business partners to achieve the Cyber Security Annual budgets.• Reviews financial reports like Budget management files, Uniops Performance Dashboard on a monthly basis and discusses the financial variances with other Lead teams.• Prepares financial forecasts and reviews with the stakeholders.• Represents Cyber security in forums with Finance and project stakeholders. • Monitors financial details to ensure compliance with forecasts and allocated Budget • Assists Senior manager to make financial decisions. • Help in finding financial efficiency for the department.• Reviews and processes payments to the vendors on a monthly basis.• Maintains an accurate filing and record keeping system for all financial statements and company documents like SOW, POs• Review the Project Business case and provide a first pass on the cost vs. benefit.• Review the SOWs and provide quality checks• Track and analyze the benefits mentioned in the business case against the Cyber Security budget • Team management of other finance team members.

Key Skills and Relevant Experience

Skills:

• Excellent written, verbal and data communication skills and able to be understood by both technical and non-technical.

• Attention to detail

• Strong quantitative skills

• Ability to plan, schedule, prioritise and allocate work effectively, and deliver to multiple and challenging deadline

• Ability to monitor progress against plans

• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and multiple tasks.

• Stakeholder management and interpersonal skills at both a technical and non-technical level.

• Able to work in a collaborative environment.

• Ability to drive process teams to understand reporting situation, explores options and come to consensus on preferred solution.

• Good presentation skills.

• Ability to work with internationally located stakeholders.

• Ability to work with vague requirements to build prototypes/sketches and go through multiple iterations before agreeing on a workable solution.

• Sound Financial knowledge, ability to review Business case and articulate business realisation.

• Ability to deliver at pace

• Thoroughness & Adept at analyzing information

• Understanding of confidentiality

Experience:

• Experience in Cyber Security.

• Experience in Finance and relevant financial certifications.

• Experience within a customer-focused environment.

• Understanding of global best practice standards (e.g. NIST, CIS, ISO), Information Security standards and controls, and the three lines of defense model is a plus.

• Experience with accounting control procedures.

Behaviours

Candidates would be required to demonstrate the Unilever Standards of Leadership & live the Values through showing the following behaviours:● Agility – Flexes leadership style and plans to meet changing situations with urgency. Learns from the past, envisions the future, has a healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo. ● Personal Mastery – Actively builds wellbeing and resilience in themselves and their team. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others. Sets high standards for themselves and always brings their best self. ● Passion for High Performance – Inspires the energy needed to win, generating intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver quality results at speed.● Business Acumen – Creates new opportunities for profitable growth through the core and beyond, creating sustainable growth with purpose and engaging different partners across the system for change. Brings the outside in, encouraging experimentation and intelligent risk-taking.

Job Category: Information Technology, IT, Informatique

Job Type: ISS Info Security Manager

Industry: UnileverExperiencedProfessionals