Assistant Manager - Process Controls

Job Title - Assistant Manager - Process Controls

Job Location - Bangalore

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Business Context

Unilever is the global company with the purpose to make sustainable living commonplace, building powerhouse brands such as Lifebuoy, Dove, Persil, Surf and Liquid IV. The Unilever Compass: Purpose-Led, Future-Fit is our new, single growth strategy based on three beliefs; Brands with purpose grow, Companies with purpose last, People with purpose thrive.

UniOps is a global organization delivering technology and enterprise-wide solutions in Unilever. Within UniOps, Finance & Supplier Operations (F&P Ops) provides financial services across Unilever such as Record to Report (R2R), Source to Pay (S2P), Supply Chain Finance Services (SCFS) and Controls Services (CSC), Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) and Treasury, Parent & Holding Controls (TRC)

Main Purpose of the Job

CSC draws its mandate from Global Financial Controls Framework (GFCF) & One Unilever Financial Control Framework (1UL FCF) which is applicable to all countries and units in Unilever. CSC provides central monitoring and reporting for financial controls in Unilever. It reports control health indicators (CHI) on 110+ countries, across five global processes - Order to Cash, Source to Pay, Record to Report, Make to Deliver & Treasury. CSC is a one-of-a-kind capability created in Unilever, which has been emulated by other companies. It has evolved over last few years as a best in class, futuristic, real time financial controls monitoring capability.

CSC publishes reports Controls Cockpit, one stop shop to cater to financial control monitoring needs for all countries/units. Quarterly/monthly governance is run with the country Finance Controllers, and action plans obtained for remediation via workflow tool. Rigorous follow up is made to ensure action plans are completed in time, and control exceptions are brought down.

CSC is divided into a process and country matrix. This role is responsible for one of the processes (RTR/STP/OTC/MTD), and front face as CSC Service Delivery Lead for the market clusters of Unilever. Also, responsible for building/improvising monitoring for the respective processes. This role reports into Manager CSC - Process Controls.

Main Accountabilities

Specific deliverables of this role include, but are not limited, to deliver:

Controls monitoring and reporting for Process controls.

• Monthly publish of Controls cockpit comprising of Value at Risk (VaR), GFCF monitoring dashboards etc. to the countries & market clusters assigned.

• Analysis of reports to identify significant patterns, trends, outliers, anomalies and highlight as part of key insights.

• Analysis of key control themes in the process and perform root cause of control deficiencies to drive awareness and identify structural solutions with guidance from Managers.

• Support Managers in running Control Health Meetings/VP connect with Controllers/NFLs

Process Lead

• Contribute to analytics dashboards via expanding the GFCF scoped controls under monitoring or improving the existing monitoring insights.

• Close touch with PEC & GCAD, on GFCF changes & incorporate changes to analytical dashboards by raising CR

• Socialize insights with GCAD based on analytics in Controls Cockpit

• Close touch with D&A/IT team for indicator building/modification.

Active contribution to develop digital agenda in controls monitoring.

• Explore and pursue automation opportunities in the current model of control monitoring with support from Managers.

• Identify & support development and go-live of new reports enhancing the robustness of controls environment. Interacting with multiple stake holders like Group Chief Accountant Department (GCAD), Process Excellence and third-party service provider teams.

Drive best in class Service Delivery for assigned clusters.

• Manage effective service delivery on controls reporting and monitoring for the clusters, creating exceptional user experience in stakeholder community.

• Establishing connect with Controllers team to deep dive into reports, provide insights, leverage UniOps network to propose structural solutions for business challenges and drive accountability.

Key Interfaces

• Group Chief Accountant Department

• Country Finance Controllers/Teams

• Process Owners

• Control Owners

• Operating Centres

• IT teams

Critical success Factors for the Job

Key Skills

• Strong knowledge of business processes (RTR/STP/OTC/MTD)

• Analytics & controls mindset

• Strong business acumen

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills

• Customer and service centricity

• Solution oriented

• Ability to work under pressure.

• Analytical skills

Relevant Experience

• CA/MBA with 2- 4 years of Finance experience in Unilever or at least one other global organization in similar industry

• Strong experience in control assurance, accounting/ finance role, internal audit, project management, process excellence

• Experience and cultural awareness to work with a geographically, culturally diverse and global team.

DESIRABLE:

• Business Partnering role experience.

• Technology understanding SAP, GRC Hana

• Analytical and Visualization tools like Power BI, Power Apps etc.

Leadership Behaviors

Inner Game: Demonstrate Agility (constantly curious and courageous) while striving for Personal Mastery

Outer Game: Demonstrate Business Acumen and Passion for High Performance

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