Agile Finance Analyst - Global Business Services

Global Data and Tech (GDT) and Global Business Services transform the way our business operates and is experienced. By combining our industry-leading technology organization and decades of supply chain knowledge and expertise, it takes our best practice Supply Chain and UniOps organizations to ‘next practice’ levels, making it more agile and responsive than ever before. It will enable long-term transformational thinking and separate the day-to-day execution in the organization – ensuring that we deliver today and transform tomorrow. Global Business Services is one of our larger entities in Unilever, with an overheads cost base of €0.5B and capex of €0.1B. It plays a vital role in powering Unilever to win and is the delivery engine that enables our company to run every day. GBS does this by embracing radical simplification and standardisation, delivering trusted and highly efficient E2E transformative solutions that redefine corporate performance and increase competitiveness. Through this, GBS fuels growth and maximises profitability by enabling BG/BU/1UL to focus on market facing value drivers Services under GBS include Customer Experience, People Experience, Workplace Services, Finance Operations, Supplier Operations and Global Marketing Services. The Finance Business Partnering community is critical in supporting GBS with the delivery of these services, as well as the driving force behind high value interventions to the wider business. Main FBP responsibilities will include: a. Partner end to end value interventions: i. Business case preparation, scenario modelling & evaluation through to implementation ii. Remit covers Capex, Restructuring and Fuel 4 Growth interventions iii. Rigorous and challenging scrutiny over costs and benefits, and interventions on project performance iv. Maintain agility so that expertise can be quickly shifted to the next value intervention which may be outside of core strategic responsibilities b. Financial involvement in reviewing in-year performance vs budget, and work on route to budget / savings trajectories for the year i. Strong relationship with teams in the markets delivering GBS services. ii. Hand in hand work with procurement on understanding changes to contracts/inflation that impact in year position iii. Side by side working with controllers and market finance teams to ensure correct key asset bookings and hostings charge outs. c. Support communication and change management of major initiatives through clusters & functions d. Support the Finance leads within Global Business Services