Unilever is Hiring Bachelor’s (Accounting/ Finance)/CA/ACCA/CPA As Assistant Finance Manager – FET Strategic Programs At Bangalore Full Time

Background

Unilever Operation (UniOps) team will deliver across a number of Strategic Programs which will enable everyday tasks and processes to be carried out in a more agile and more efficient way. These programmes require significant investment in both Restructuring, CAPEX & Fuel 4 Growth, with significant benefits expected in return in terms of cost savings and capability built.

The Finance Business Partner for UniOps Strategic Programs is in place to ensure strong governance on the End to End of the program and evaluation of the performance, for both the individual projects and for the total programme. The team provides meaningful insight to the business about the short-term and long-term investments, empowering UniOps leadership team for preparation of the strategic roadmaps.

This role is aimed at those seeking a challenging global role in finance as it is a combination of collaboration with different teams and stakeholders, reporting and forecasting, analysing, modelling, and presenting.

Main job purpose

The main purpose of this role is to support the Strategic Programs Finance Manager on greater granular visibility of the projects and Identify the Risk and Opportunities within. It will be responsible for ensuring the financial view of actuals and forecast for each project is accurate reflective for both costs and savings. The role will also be responsible for driving continuous improvements to the process in place, simplification & digitalisation of data outputs.  The role will be agile in nature across the strategic programs framework and may also work on projects across FP&A, FET Operations.

The role requires great deal of collaboration and communication skills across functions and across project teams. In addition, it requires skills in data modelling, analytical and scenario building, to evaluate, assess and provide insights of the projects, in order to drive greater value.

Key accountabilities:

• Work with project UniOps stakeholders aswell as UniOps finance colleagues to deliver strategic program  activities.
• Facilitate performance management with internal & external stakeholders by reviewing program delivery vs. expectation
• Prepare and communicate monthly performance updates to UniOps LT as well
• Collaborate with and support UniOps FET to align on project impact to Forecast, Annual Plan and Targets
• Develop and manage performance dashboards to enable relevant stakeholders to review performance in relation to Project KPIs.

Experience and qualifications required:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance or related field or an associate member of a professional body
• Experience of working in multi-national teams and/or a virtual team environment
• Business partnering skills from global or regional category
• Power BI / Data Analytics Experience

Key Technical Skills:

• Finance & Commercial acumen
• Strong analytical skills, Excel modelling skills and attention to detail
• Excellent inter-personal, communication and influencing skills,
• Decision support / Project Oriented
• High degree of flexibility and ability to quickly adopted to changes
• Ability to work collaboratively with other key stakeholders
• Strong engagement, presentation, and communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a simplified manner
• Resilience (ability to cope with time pressure and challenges)