Senior Agile Finance Manager

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

The newly created One Performance Management Team has consolidated four separate performance teams into one: these are the Strategy, Global Performance Management, CDMO, and Unilever Business Operations finance teams. Within this new scope:

• A central Finance Excellence Team (FET) was established.
• Controlling activities were consolidated into one independent team.
• This has liberated Finance Business Partners (FBP) from performance management to focus on value moments.

Main FBP responsibilities will include:

• Being the Strategic finance lead for our Commercial Experience service line, which comprises Finance Operations and Supplier Operations.
• Being part of the Leadership team, creating and monitoring strategy.
• Being a core member of strategic projects.
• Maintaining strong relationships and networks across One Performance Team finance, acting as the point of contact for business product/foundation teams.
• Partnering end to end on value interventions:
• Business case preparation, scenario modelling, and evaluation through to implementation.
• Remit covers Capex, Restructuring, and F4G interventions.
• Exercising rigorous and challenging scrutiny over costs and benefits, and interventions on project performance.
• Maintaining agility so that expertise can be quickly shifted to the next value intervention which may be outside of core strategic responsibilities.
• Financial involvement in major contract negotiations/development with 3rd parties.
• Acting as key partner to Procurement Finance during the CPM (Collaborative Procurement Model) process of contracts coming up for review.
• Supporting validation of financial business cases and cost modelling, including treasury and tax considerations.
• Ensuring strategic alignment between new contract negotiations and UniOps service provision.
• Providing data analytics with Contract Managers (and linkage to FET team).
• Supporting communication and change management of major initiatives through clusters and functions.

Note:

• Forecasting
• Route to Budget
• FCCR / Intercompany / Cross-charges
• Opex & Capex actuals management
• Performance updates
• Master data management

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications:

• Cross-functional stakeholder relationship management and ability to influence a large and complex set of stakeholders, making an impact on decision-making.
• Ability to operate in a highly focused, entrepreneurial environment.
• Business case modelling in a complex environment.
• Experience with identifying risks and opportunities.
• Qualified accountant or equivalent.

Skills:

• Project Management
• Change Management
• Driving Business Performance
• Data Visualisation
• Process Design & Automation
• Financial Control

Other Skills:

• Strategic Thinking
• Strong Resilience & Stakeholder Management
• Analytics, solution-oriented & controls mindset
• Commercial acumen
• Strong communication skills and ability to present complex information in a simplified manner.
• Experience and cultural awareness to work with a geographically, culturally diverse, and global team.