Unilever is Looking for Unilever International Assistant Finance Manager, Projects & Business Acquisitions at Mumbai Full Time

JOB TITLE: Unilever International – Assistant Finance Manager, Projects & Business Acquisitions

JOB LOCATION: IndiaRELOCATION TERMS: Local terms

UNILEVER INTERNATIONAL IS…

Unilever International (UI) is an alternative but complimentary route to market, servicing white space opportunities not exploited by local operating countries. This is amongst Unilever’s fastest growing global business unit with 8 hubs (Singapore, US, UK, Korea, India, Dubai, France and the Philippines) with a diverse range of products, with expertise in utilizing 3rd party distributors and consolidators to reach consumers in over 75 countries.

We treat the business as our own. We introduce Unilever’s brands into geographies like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and spearhead launches of iconic household brands like Dove, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Fair & Lovely, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, China, Western Europe and SEAA.

As Unilever’s growth engine, we establish global businesses in key channels such as Health & Beauty, Discounters, E-Commerce and alternate channels such as travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Project Management Lead for new UI transfers/disposal from UI to local Unilever BUs. This involves Project Management of key deliverables, engagement with stakeholders, ensuring all due diligence and governance are in place for UILT sign-off and ensuring the full completion of business transfer to eventual business owner. The role will anchor Finance responsibilities to support the UI Business Transfer Team.

• Jointly develop, with the Hiring Manager and UI Finance LT, an End-to-End UI Internal Business Transfer Framework that spells out the Best-in-Class process of integrating and transferring any new business opportunities to ensure all areas of business case, due diligence, governance, accounting and tax models are covered.

• Performance Management Lead for UI partnerships with Elida Beauty and other future projects in the pipeline. Responsibilities includes:

• Performance Management lead & full P&L ownership on actuals, forecasts for both short and long term planning. Prepare all rolling forecasts and business plans.

• Reviewing actuals vs forecast and flagging key issues to promote accountability and picking early warning signals to drive opportunities.

• Be actively participating on driving growth and profitability, pricing decision, managing risk, challenging business teams, managing costs across all geographies and P&L drivers

• Drive Internal Operational Planning, Marketing Activity Planning and Pricing Decisions.

• Ensure efficient Working Capital via Debtors Management procedures: Claims, Invoicing review.

• Manage month end activities: Monthly forecasting, Month end review, Analysis, Drive Insights and Actions with focus on: Growth, Returns on investments, Portfolio Mix, Pricing and Costs.

• Controls: Ensure financial records are in compliance with accepted policies, procedures and external/SOX controls requirements. Ensure robustness of internal controls including clear segregation of duties, disciplined implementation of schedule of authority, robust payment approval/verification process, credit assessment, budgetary system.

• This person will work very closely with UI Finance stakeholders like Controllers, Tax, Cluster Finance Business Partners, BG Finance Business Partners and as well as other UI cross-functional teams like Supply Chain, Business Development and Marketing.

• Due to Project nature and UI’s global mandate, this role will be required to support stakeholders across different time-zones depending on the project on hand, with flexibility on work hours.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• 7-10 years of experience in various Finance or Business-related roles.

• In depth knowledge of Operational / Financial Processes: Master data management, Credit Management Policies; Debtors management; Brand & Marketing investments, Claims and reconciliations; Balance sheet reconciliation.

• Ability to work closely with stakeholders from different parts of the world and willingness to connect with global stakeholders who may be based in different time zones.

• Keen curiosity to learn and staying resilient

Job Category: Finance

Job Type: Finance Business Partner – Supervisor

Industry: UnileverExperiencedProfessionals