Assistant Finance Manager – Finance Business Partner UI Europe

Unilever is currently hiring for Assistant Finance Manager – Finance Business Partner UI Europe

Function:​Finance

Reports to: Finance Manager ​

​Location: BCN - Viladecans/ Greece​

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. Wedon’tbelieve in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

We treat the business as our own.

As intrapreneurs, we introduce Unilever’s brands into white space 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 white space 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.

Singapore is our global hub leading strategy, marketing thinking, seeding plans, and alignment with the global categories and supply chain. 

Game changing business

SPEED is the mantra for our resounding success. To serve the underserved, we embrace a founder’s mentality, explore unchartered territories, redesign end-to-end business models to establish successful businesses. We make a difference by working fast and smart, nurturing our tribe, winning together and living by five tenets:

We will be the fastest route-to-market globally; We go where no (man, woman or distributor) has ever explored; Impossible is an opinion, not a fact; Speed is our currency; When brands are built right, they can last a lifetime.

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JOB PURPOSE

• You’ll ensure sound and robust cost and price governance;
• You’ll coordinate Unilever stakeholders to ensure a globally harmonized management reporting process for UI.  

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Control and Governance of Business Investments

• Managing month-end activities (e.g. monthly forecasting, month-end review) to generate insights and appropriate actions
• Ensuring financial records comply with relevant policies, procedures and external/SOX controls requirements
• Driving the quarterly Marketing Activity Plan (MAP) exercise end-to-end, including monthly tracking of actuals, budgets, and forecasts across multiple BUs in UI
• Managing Master Data structure and tools across portfolio of category spend
• Managing UI’s pricing strategy framework and pricing process, including quarterly analysis
• Ongoing reviews of pricing risks and ensuring mitigation controls are implemented

Business Partnerships  & Performance Management

• Actively driving growth, profitability, pricing decision, managing risk, challenging business teams, managing costs across Europe and P&L drivers
• Reviewing actuals vs forecast and escalating potential issues
• Supporting Business Partners on budget and pricing management matters across multiple BUs in UI
• Leading partnering interventions and resolving it with business partners

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicantsfrom allwalks 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.