GDT Agile Finance Business Partner

Job Title: GDT Agile Finance Business Partner
Location: UniOps Bangalore

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.

Key Responsibilities:
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 and Controlling activities were consolidated into one independent team, thus liberating Finance Business Partners (FBP) from performance management to focus on value moments.
Therefore, main FBP responsibilities will include:
a.    Being the Strategic finance lead for Business Operations and CDIO. 
i.    Be part of the Leadership team for Business Operations, creating and monitoring strategy
ii.    Be a core member of strategic projects for CDIO
iii.    Maintain strong relationship and network across One Performance Team finance, in order to be the point of contact for the business product/foundation teams.

b.    Partnering end to end value interventions: 
i.    Business case preparation, scenario modelling & evaluation through to implementation
ii.    Remit covers Capex, Restructuring and F4G interventions
iii.    Rigorous and challenging scrutiny over costs and benefits, and interventions on project performance 
iv.    Maintain agility so that expertise can be quickly shifted to the next value intervention which may be outside of core strategic responsibilities

c.    Financial involvement in major contract negotiations / development with 3rd parties
i.    Key partner to UBO Procurement Finance during the CPM - Collaborative Procurement Model process of contracts coming up for review.
ii.    Support on validating financial business case, and cost modelling, including treasury and tax considerations
iii.    Strategic alignment between new contract negotiation and UniOps service provision. 
iv.    Provision of data analytics with Contract Managers (& link to FET team) 

d.    Supporting communication and change management of major initiatives through clusters & functions 

Experiences & Qualifications
•    Cross-functional stakeholder relationship management and ability to influence a large and complex set of stakeholders and make 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 Visualization
•    Process Design & Automation
•    Financial Control
•    Strategic Thinking 
•    Strong Resilience & Stakeholder management
•    Analytics, solution-orientated & controls mind set
•    Commercial acumen
•    Strong communication skills and ability to present complex information in a simplified manner
•    Has the necessary experience and cultural awareness to work with a geographically, culturally diverse and global team

Leadership
•    You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
•    You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Standards of Leadership
o    PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
o    PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
o    TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
o    PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
o    CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
o    BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

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.