Asst Finance Manager - Global Oral Care

Join us as Asst Finance Manager - Global Oral Care

• Location: Grha Unilever OR Mumbai HO

• Terms & Conditions: Full-time role

ABOUT UNILEVER

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Unilever are the pioneers of personal care; innovating world-class brands that empower more than a billion people every day with confidence, wellbeing, and self-care. The Personal Care Business is a €14bn Turnover business and holds leading category positions in deodorants and skin cleansing globally.
Key categories include Skin Cleansing, Deodorants and Oral Care.

• Skin Cleansing is the largest PC category with Turnover in excess of €6bn. The business holds iconic brands like Dove, Axe, Lux, Lifebuoy, etc. Largest market of the portfolio is North America with Turnover of approximately €3.5bn. This is followed by South Asia, LATAM and Europe at the next biggest markets of Skin Cleansing.

• Deodorants & Fragrances is the second biggest PC category with Turnover in excess of €5bn. The business holds iconic brands like Rexona/Degree, Dove and Axe. Largest markets of the portfolio are North America, Latin America and Europe.

• Oral Care is the next key category for the PC category with Turnover of €1.5bn. Pepsodent and Closeup are the iconic brands within the category. Largest markets of the portfolio include Indonesia, Philippines, South Asia, and Europe.

JOB PURPOSE:
Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. If you are passionate about high performing teams and will like to partner the future of the PC brands with the medium-long term strategy and innovations, then this role is just for you.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE:
The role is a highly dynamic and exciting role. The role will be an ‘agile’ member of the brand finance team with responsibility of partnering the Pepsodent and Closeup Oral Care teams and working closely with the brand finance director on wider PC projects. This role offers the opportunity to work alongside senior global brand leadership, local leadership teams, markets across the globe and cross functional teams.
This will include providing Finance Business Partnering support in the following areas:

• Innovation Management: Partner and challenge Marketing leads on the preparation of business cases across Oral Care brands to drive our Innovation lead growth agenda.

• Strategy Planning and Formulation: Support and partner with the Marketing teams in business modelling, P&L forecasts, competitor benchmarking, shadow P&Ls.

• Strategy Execution: Driving strategy into action - Tracking progress against agreed strategic priorities and analysing variances.

• Performance Intervention: Complete the analytics required for any identified performance issues at a cell level - Brand/ Country cell and support resolution through cross-functional teams and Cluster / Divisional contacts. Based on this conduct performance interventions

• Budget Management & Control: business partner for in year budget management of a portfolio of divisional spend with interaction at a VP level across marketing teams. Own the monthly tracking of actuals and forecast process

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experiences & Qualifications
Relevant experience in finance supporting either Sales & Operations Process, business partnering, FP&A, Supply Chain or Customer Development.

• Ability to present complex information in simplified manner

• Experience in analytical projects and excel modelling

• Experience of working in multi-national teams and/or a virtual team environment would be an advantage

Skills:
Strong analytical skills, Excel modelling skills and attention to detail

• Critical Thinking.

• Accountability and responsibility.

• Agility, Growth mind-set and Bias for action

ARE YOU INTERESTED?
Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications will not be processed. By applying to this role, you are confirming that you have informed your Line Manager and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.  

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment journey. Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact your Talent Partner.

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