R2R Manager

Unilever is currently hiring for R2R Finance Manager Turkey & Unica

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

About UniOps Commercial Experience

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.

Commercial Experience is a strategic asset within UniOps.  They are an intrinsic and integral part of financial and management reporting, treasury, controls, supplier operations and finance expertise from invoicing to payment processing, budgeting, and cost optimization - an accelerator that fuels growth for Unilever.

The Commercial Experience Vision is to become a Best in Class solutions organization recognized both externally and internally. Within this context, it requires balancing sometime contradicting priorities around cost, experience, discipline, and compliance become critical and need very capable leaders at the helm who can steer and balance both challenge and support to the Markets organization.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  If you are passionate about finance and looking to build a finance career then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

This role is responsible for leading the Financial Reporting for Turkey and Unica. The candidate is expected to have excellent stakeholder management and Business Partnering skills to work with the Com-Ex LT and senior business stakeholders in markets (Head of Finance and Controller).

The role involves acting as the lead across these activities:

• Leading Corporate Financial month end closing and reporting
• Operate and own RTR controls under Unilever’s Global Financial Control Framework
• Drive End to End Balance Sheet Hygiene to ensure integrity and accuracy of financial reporting.
• Maintain key health indicators and minimise Value at Risk.
• Lead Digital: Deploy technology in RtR Area e.g. Blackline Smartclose for JV, migration from Xpandion to new Fixed Assets Workflow etc
• Re-engineer processes, drive RPA automation.
• Excellent understanding of analytical tools and their applications, and a strong technology orientation: To driven Analytics based approach for review and outlier identification.
• Partner transformational global and local projects/initiatives.

Controls & Compliance

• Maintain “zero CDRs” across Statutory & SOX audits, ensure compliance to GFCF & Access controls. Facilitating auditors with process walkthroughs for in-scope global processes.
• Fully compliant to GPM, APM & SMF across markets, ensuring compliance to annual/ periodic versions of the same.
• Support & ensure zero “control lapses” in annual CAD audit for all India entities.
• Support CSC teams driving control health indicators, ensure hygiene across balance sheet.
• Ensure Delivery of major global transformation programs (e.g. Smart close, Business transformation projects, Annual SCOA changes, etc.), initiatives led by global functional teams (e.g. GCAD, PEC) and continuous improvement opportunities in the RtR process area.
• Work closely with the Markets and PEC, to ensure effective delivery of all initiatives across different markets
• Support Markets in Local projects (like Balance Sheet revaluation, etc)

Team

• Develop a high performing collaborative team of subject matter experts in RtR areas. This Role will have direct line management of 4 team members and will potentially also be required to demonstrate leadership with 3PSP teams.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

We are looking for someone with key skills of Leadership, Ownership, Capability building, Change Management and Passion for high performance.

• Min. 8 years of relevant experience (Big four, International Corporation Finance Reporting experience preferred)
• A qualified Chartered Accountant or an equivalent Business Management degree in finance and accounts with strong experience in financial accounting
• The experience in global/regional process design and organizational transformation programs.

Key Stakeholders and Interfaces

• Group Chief Accountant and his team (GCAD) & Process Excellence teams
• Commercial Experience Leadership team
• NFDs & Finance controllers in Markets
• Global R2R Third party service providers
• Corporate audit team

Skills

• The ability to simplify processes through clean slate design thinking.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; the ability to adapt nimbly and lead others through complex situations.
• The ability to cross the bar on Unilever standards of leadership
• Inner Game – Personal Mastery, Purpose & Service and Agility
• Outer Game – Talent Catalyst, Consumer Love, Business Acumen and Passion for High Performance.
• Effective communication & Business partnering skills.
• Ability to build and lead high performing teams.
• The ability to lead large teams and influence senior and peer leadership.
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and a proven record in leading change projects.

• Preferred additional skills:
• Strong knowledge of Unilever Financial Accounting Policies, SCOA and R2R relevant GFCF controls
• SAP knowledge in financial accounting and R2R tools that are implemented in Unilever.
• Strong knowledge and experience of Unilever's Global functions especially Record to Report
• Experience in Unilever Finance especially in MCO / Country controlling and or global expertise roles would be preferred
• Strong stakeholder management including senior leader engagement

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
  • TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

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