FS SC Accounting Specialist - Finance

About Unilever
With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

Job Purpose
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are Responsible for maintaining employee records and creating all documents throughout the entire employee life cycle (JML), while developing solid relationships with key stakeholders to maintain operational performance across region.

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be
• To lead Performance Management within the Factory, responsible for all costs and controlling the financial health of the Factory.
• To Business Partner the Factory Manager, operations & management teams to take timely, strategic and value maximizing decisions.
• To manage a broad set of complex financial & management accounting financials, within a challenging operational & business environment.
• To initiate and support the development and implementation of projects to drive cost competitiveness and drive efficiency.
• To bring energy, motivation and challenge to the factory teams in order to grow whilst achieving both personal and business goals.
• To play a key role streamlining, improving and simplifying ways of working & processes within the finance team and broader business.
• To play a key role in the finance community within the Supply Chain Team, working with teams and sharing best practices.

Performance Management
• Drive performance of the site based on actionable insights to improve cost competitiveness & efficiency.
• Responsible for site in-year financial performance (cost/waste/Capex), site forecasts and partnering site leadership team.
• Partner big value projects on site (support big capex proposals/transformation project delivery)
• Where needed, leverage logistics, procurement and USCC category SC to drive performance beyond site boundaries (e.g. in-sourcing, material savings, distribution cost reduction etc).
World Class Manufacturing (WCM)
• WCM program is need to capture WCM learnings that help landing additional savings.
Business Planning
• Partner the Leadership team to set a robust 3 year financial framework aligned to the category strategy. Bring his country to category benchmark.
• Forecast the annual business plan and monthly forecast, together with the site leadership team, to deliver improvements in cost competitiveness and improved efficiency.
• Set stretching targets and lay out the framework and resources to achieve significant savings.
CAPEX & Inventory (CAPEX €, Return on Assets)
• Manage All Fixed assets responsibilities.
• Ensure, with MET support, appropriate control for CAPEX investment.
Overheads & Business Waste
• Driving reduction in business waste – material waste, obsoletes, quality defects.
• Management of site restructuring budgets & accounting, in conjunction with the
Financial controls (Financial controls scorecard, Capital WIP)
• Ensure adequate financial controls are in place and operational in line with Unilever standards.
• Ensure brilliant basics of budget management and control are operating.
• Participate in the monthly closing.
• Review the materials prices, and insure it is accurately landing to the right COGS.

What You Need To Succeed
Experiences & Qualifications:

• Driving business performance
• Applying judgement and decision making
• Analytical thinking / problem solving ability
• Team working and leadership
• Business insight
• Motivation and drive
• Excellent Soft skills.
• Preferred SAP experience.
Languages: English

Professional qualifications:
A degree in accounting or a professional accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA etc) is preferred.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! 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.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.