Project Verdi Finance Analyst (Temporal)

Location: Bosques, CDMX.

Local conditions apply        

Full-time for 12 months, Hybrid.

JOB PURPOSE

Project Verdi intends to separate Unilever’s global Ice Cream businesswith its well-known brands, geographical reach, and including the Ice Cream estates New Ice Cream company will become the world’s largest IC company. Thisrole is an opportunity towork on one of Unilever’sbiggestand most criticaltransformationprojects over the next years

There is a requirement for a team on the Unilever side of the project called Separation Team (not moving with the separated company) covering the scope of Latin America Scale countries. The team is responsible for leading the Finance Workstream in the project and act as PMO coordinating the rest of the workstreams (HR, IT, SC, GTM, Mkt, Tax, Legal)

Key responsibilities:

• Main point of contact between Global M&A Separation Team and local finance teams, working closely with country teams to ensure timely data submission and support reconciliation efforts across various teams

• Working in collaboration with other financial areas supporting the preparation and review of the carved out financial statements, ensuring timely provision of information to KPMG, and managing the audit to ensure timely delivery. 

• Support on the design of Transition Service Agreement (TSAs) needed as part of separation and ensure and alignment with the new IC Company

• Proactively track and mitigate business, operational & project risks.

• Act as PMO and engage with other functional workstream leads (GTM, SC, Legal, HR) to provide any information necessary and ensure any interdependent 

• Support knowledgetransfer between UL and separated IC.Provide Finance assistant as needed for any other ad hoc activities that may be required

About you:

• Experience in finance controlling areas 

• Strong Project management skills (plan and coordinate with other teams)

• Able to communicate effectively and work remotely

• End to end management, ability to understand the big picture but also comfortable with details

• Experience of working cross functional teams

• Fluent in written and spoken English

• Relevant finance degree or accounting qualification beneficial