Category Finance Analyst – Home Care

Job Title: Category Finance Analyst – Home Care

Business Function: Home Care BG Finance

Location: 100VE, London

JOB PURPOSE

Home Care Business Group is €12 billion business. The BG is on a strategic journey to drive clean future by disrupting and transforming the cleaning industry from highly chemical dependents to green and sustainable cleaning, through innovation and premiumization. In parallel the Business Group priority is to step up profitability through net productivity (SC/BMI/Overheads), network transformation, concertation and premiumization together with selective portfolio rationalization. 

We are the emerging markets leader with No 1 or 2 position in our top countries. We have 3 key categories. Fabric Cleaning, Fabric Enhancers, Home and Hygiene. With the compass organization landing, Business Groups are now operating as an independent business within Unilever with full end to end P&L responsibility, a great opportunity to define and drive performance management and impact business decisions. 

The Global Home Care Finance team partners our global cross-functional business teams and other local finance teams to set and implement strategy, drive performance and ensure value generation in almost 100 markets that we operate in. We are known to be a high-performing, diverse and inclusive team: our members come from different backgrounds, hold ~15+ nationalities and together we speak more than 20 languages.  We have a strong learning culture and have high standards for our work. We work hard, learn well, have fun and watch out for each other.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Planning

• Partner with Brand Manager/Directors in business modelling, competitor benchmarking, shadow P&Ls.

• Identify value opportunities that require a particular intervention / project support from Finance.

• Partner with Categories to conduct portfolio reviews.
  

Innovation

• Develop and lead business cases for BG led innovations, in collaboration with global brand teams, as well as the counterparts across CMI, R&D and supply chain globally and locally.

• Coordinate innovation post launch performance conversation together with innovation champions and BU finance, drive interventions if needed.
  

​Cross Category

• Lead various projects across categories, such as, Media Sufficiency/ROI, Competitor Analysis, Budget Management etc.

Key Interactions

Home Care Business Group

• Global brand leads and brand communities.

• Global Innovation project leads.

• Cross functional business team in BG central and BUs. (CMI, supply chain, R&D)
  

Finance business partners

• Global Home Care finance team including performance management, other category finance, supply chain, competitor intelligence, etc.

• BU Home Care Finance teams.

• Global Innovation FET team.

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Business and financial acumen with a proven track record of delivery.

• Strong analytical skills, high attention to detail and bias for action.

• Advance Excel skills. Ability to work fluidly with data and across systems. 

• Ability to work collaboratively with other key stakeholders.

• High degree of flexibility and ability to quickly understand new topics. 

• Accountability and responsibility.

• Strong prioritisation skills. 

• Strong financial academic background.

• Proven experience in finance business partnering roles.
  

NOTES

Location

In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London to house the employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars, Lever House in Kingston, Unilever House in Leatherhead and Graze in Richmond. We are creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment, purposefully bringing us together in our own Unilever ecosystem. The campus is due to be completed in early 2025 and will consist of two interconnected buildings, as well as landscaped surrounding areas.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, free gym, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, click here: Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.

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