Europe Cashup Analyst

Job Title: Europe Cashup Analyst

Location: Kingston Head Office

Job Title: Europe Cashup Analyst

Location: Kingston Head Office

Work-Level: 1C

TEAM INTRODUCTION 

The Europe Finance Excellence Team (Europe FET) is on the lookout for talented individuals ready to make a real impact. As pioneers of an ‘Above Market’ design, the Europe FET plays a pivotal role in driving key finance operations. This includes month-end closing, forecasting, budget control, management reporting, cash management, and ad hoc decision support, ensuring the smooth financial functioning of European operations. Supporting an €11bn yearly revenue business across the 6 BG Led Markets and the new 1Unilever Europe organisation, the Europe FET needs someone passionate about finance who is eager to contribute to an environment that values collaboration, growth, and impact.  

The Europe FET is characterised by its diverse and vibrant culture, bringing together finance professionals from a wide range of backgrounds. The team firmly believes that the best solutions come from a mix of perspectives, leveraging this diversity to solve challenges and foster innovation. With a location strategy based out of three geographical hubs – Kingston, Rotterdam, and Warsaw – the Europe FET aims to enable seamless collaboration by building centers of excellence. These hubs not only facilitate better support to our Markets and Business Groups but also create thriving environments for shared learning.  

The FET isn’t just about numbers; it’s about people. The team cultivates an engaging and collaborative atmosphere where every member’s voice is heard and valued. There are ample opportunities to learn, take ownership of projects, and directly impact the financial health of the organization. For individuals looking to grow their skills within a fantastic team and help shape the future of finance operations in Europe, the Europe FET is an exciting place to be. Come be a part of a journey where finance meets innovation, and every day brings a new opportunity to make a difference. 

JOB PURPOSE

The role holder will be the subject matter expert in the cash-up process within the Europe FET team, with in-depth knowledge of the Europe cash-up tool and its critical role in the company's S&OP process. Responsibilities include ensuring Data quality and hygiene from Pre cash up to the final forecast, partnering with BU Finance business partners to resolve pricing issues, identifying and addressing any discrepancies in forecasted numbers, govern the overall process run by the D&A team and ensure end to end completeness and sign off from country and business unit. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsible for:

• Ensuring data hygiene checks from pre cash up to the final submitted forecast. 

• Ensure all missing prices detail or TMI detail are addressed on time. 

• Ensuring AMB is updated from pre cash up to the final submitted forecast. 

• Ensuring final FC sign-off by country. 

• Ensuring the D&A Data scientist performs effective data remodelling and retraining for TMI forecast. 

Accountable for:

• Running the pre-cash-up process and providing insights into the financial forecast during pre-cashup week (updated daily in week 2). 

• Fixing potential list price and transfer price issues and providing details on missing list prices and transfer prices. 

• Offering insights into the financial forecast based on the volume forecast snapshot from the end of week 2. 

• Creating the current year forecast for other SC costs which are non-TP related, based on last year(s) actuals. 

• Ensuring P&L is actualized in the Cashup tool during month-end close. 

• Ensuring D&A pulls the OH and BMI from Plan my spend. 

• Reporting GMVA for the cycle. 

Provide support on:

• BG led market adjustments in the Cashup tool. 

• 1UL market manual adjustments executed by 1UL FP&A team. 

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Finance professional with solid experience in Business Planning (forecasting) and the S&OP process (Sales & Operations Planning) and an understanding of Finance’s role within it. 

• Structured and well-organized, capable of prioritizing multiple tasks while looking for ways to improve processes. 

• Independent worker, able to make decisions and deliver to timetable with a very high degree of autonomy. 

• Strong at business communication and partnering. 

• Inquisitive mind and problem-solving skills – ability to handle complex sets of data and find sources of error with speed. 

• Deep understanding of highly complex business processes and the ability to translate these and break them down into simple, navigable pieces. 

• Advanced Excel skills – ability to manipulate large volumes of data efficiently and accurately. 

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’ 

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, 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, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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