Assistant Finance Manager – Finance Business Partner UI Europe

Catalonia, Spain

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Job ID:: R-1171661
Date posted:: 01/06/2026
Job Type:: Full time
Job Category:: Finance

Unilever is currently hiring for Assistant Finance Manager – Finance Business Partner UI Europe

Function:Finance

Reports to: Finance Manager

Location: BCN - Viladecans/ Greece

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. Wedon’tbelieve in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

We treat the business as our own.

As intrapreneurs, we introduce Unilever’s brands into white space geographies like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and spearhead launches of iconic household brands like Dove, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Fair & Lovely, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, China, Western Europe and SEAA.

As Unilever’s growth engine, we establish global white space businesses in key channels such as Health & Beauty, Discounters, E-Commerce and alternate channels such as travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands.

Singapore is our global hub leading strategy, marketing thinking, seeding plans, and alignment with the global categories and supply chain.

Game changing business

SPEED is the mantra for our resounding success. To serve the underserved, we embrace a founder’s mentality, explore unchartered territories, redesign end-to-end business models to establish successful businesses. We make a difference by working fast and smart, nurturing our tribe, winning together and living by five tenets:

We will be the fastest route-to-market globally; We go where no (man, woman or distributor) has ever explored; Impossible is an opinion, not a fact; Speed is our currency; When brands are built right, they can last a lifetime.

JOB PURPOSE

You’ll ensure sound and robust cost and price governance;
You’ll coordinate Unilever stakeholders to ensure a globally harmonized management reporting process for UI.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Control and Governance of Business Investments

Managing month-end activities (e.g. monthly forecasting, month-end review) to generate insights and appropriate actions
Ensuring financial records comply with relevant policies, procedures and external/SOX controls requirements
Driving the quarterly Marketing Activity Plan (MAP) exercise end-to-end, including monthly tracking of actuals, budgets, and forecasts across multiple BUs in UI
Managing Master Data structure and tools across portfolio of category spend
Managing UI’s pricing strategy framework and pricing process, including quarterly analysis
Ongoing reviews of pricing risks and ensuring mitigation controls are implemented

Business Partnerships & Performance Management

Actively driving growth, profitability, pricing decision, managing risk, challenging business teams, managing costs across Europe and P&L drivers
Reviewing actuals vs forecast and escalating potential issues
Supporting Business Partners on budget and pricing management matters across multiple BUs in UI
Leading partnering interventions and resolving it with business partners

WHATYOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

3 - 7 years’ experience in Finance and Accounting
Experience working with SAP or similar accounting software systems
A bachelor’s degree in any discipline
Microsoft expert, especially in Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams Experience dealing with multiple currencies and exchange rates
Experience working in cross-functional teams within a matrix environment both F2F and virtually
Experience working with large databases.

Skills

Be a strategic, highly adaptable and entrepreneurial person
Have strong financial acumen and analytical skills, with bias to drive action
Have strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills with key stakeholders
Have experience working and leading in cross-functional teams
Have great project management and business process design skills

Leadership

You are energized by delivering fantastic results.You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

As anindividualyou are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and deliveringhigh standardsof work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE:Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

PERSONAL MASTERY:Setshigh standardsfor themselves.Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers.Investstime inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicantsfrom allwalks 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.

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