Job Description
Associate Finance Manager-Overheads Background & Purpose of the Job
Our finance professionals are aligned with Unilever’s key business processes and serve as strategic partners to bring an understanding of Finance, value creation and business drivers. They make recommendations and influence decisions that maximize value for the organization. They build and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional partners to develop annual financial plans and ongoing forecasts for departmental expenses and headcounts.
Who You Are & What You’ll Do The Associate Finance Manager (AFM) will join our FET overheads team aligned with our key business processes where they will play an integral role on cross-functional teams, to set our direction and optimize our business performance. The AFM serves as a full business partner to their team, bringing an understanding of Finance, value creation and business drivers.
Duties & Responsibilities - Display stewardship and ensure that the business attains the goals without compromising on the control environment
- Viewed as a process expertise and provide guidance as required to the rest of the organization
- Duties and Responsibilities may include one or many of the following areas – Treasury, Insurance, Pension & Benefits, Group Reporting and Statutory & Government reporting
- Analyze financial results and key trends, assess current and future business risks, and communicate results to leadership.
- Work Closely with various global teams including 3rd party service providers on delivering the common Unilever shared agenda
- To be constantly curious and look for opportunities to be agile and digitize the areas being worked upon thereby driving efficiency.
- Implement process improvement actions in assigned areas in line with development of procedures for required duties.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional business partners
- Involvement with special projects as and when they arise
- Contribute to our culture of being collaborative, respectful, transparent, ethical, and efficient.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
- 2+ years of relevant financial experience with a preferred experience in Audit, Accounting, Financial Reporting, or Financial Planning is preferred
- An enterprising and inquisitive nature that can find solutions to complex problems
- Experience creating Excel models and implementing process improvement solutions
- Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills to clearly communicate results and implications of analysis in both verbal and written forms
- Experience communicating effectively with all levels leadership, and experience communicating with all levels of financial acumen
- Strong fundamental business technical skills (including strong Excel and PowerPoint skills) and software applications (e.g. SAP)
- Enjoys working in a collaborative team environment
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