Global Fragrance Finance Lead - Secondment

Job Title: Fragrance Finance Lead - Secondment
Location: United Kingdom (100VE)
Work-Level: WL2C

Want to change the world?
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Beauty, Personal and Home 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, Sunsilk, Treseme, Persil, Comfort, Surf and Lynx. We want to move towards a connected world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet.
As one of the world’s largest users of Fragrances, we recognise that creating exceptional fragrances is at the heart of delivering extraordinary consumer experiences and driving desire at scale. Superior fragrances play a critical role in the delivery of unmissable superiority for Unilever. To support this, we have embarked on a fragrance transformation journey with expert inhouse fragrance teams, designing and formulating affordable winning fragrances for our Personal Care, Beauty & Wellbeing and Home Care Business Groups.

JOB PURPOSE
To deliver this ambition, the Fragrance Finance Lead role has been created to establish the new business model, lead the value creation on Unilever fragrance investment and drive business growth through innovation and excellence. This role will provide a unique experience on senior leadership management, new business model establishment and a strong grip of end-to-end financial operations. The role will work closely with Brand, R&D, Supply Chain, Strategy and Insights and Category Procurement teams.
The Fragrance Finance Lead will be expected to:
• Drive Value Creation and the quality delivery of business case.
• Support the organisation in the right processes and new ways of working.
• Drive the system set up of the legal entity for business operations.
• Oversee the finance operations for Unilever Fragrance.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Business case management
• Ensure the signed-off business case is delivered on time and in full.
• Provide timely forecasts of the latest operation developments and provide the latest view at senior stakeholder meetings.
• End to end governance on Project Capex and Opex spend. Sign off the actuals in line with the budgets (Opex and Capex management).
Performance Management & Value Partnering
• Deliver the required performance of the unit.
• Partner with all key stakeholders to deliver financial performance.
• Value partners all opportunities to find savings, advance the timeline intended for the scope.
• Define the annual commercial plans, including resource allocation and budget setting.
Manage CapEx proposals and tracking progress spend:
• PSL final Build and India Interim Build – ensure stays within budget and delivered on time in full
• Partner UniOps Digital team to design the system architecture for the financial operations.
• Partner the US & India Sites to refine Fragrance requirements for hubs, ensuring capex remains within budget and delivered in time and in full.
Drive Strategy and alignment across Fragrance
• Partner UFH to develop long term strategy proposals internal and external to Unilever.
• Support through development of new business cases and Scoville Expansion, aligning resourcing requirements and ensuring clear ROI.
Incorporating and design the end-to-end finance operations for the unit
• Collaborate with suppliers, 3PM and UFH (procurement & supply chain) team to refine the most ideal way of the operation.
• Collaborate across UFH, to define the operations of the fragrance entity in collaboration with Tax, legal, IT and core project team. Assess roadmap to design legal entity creation.
• Ensure that the legal entity is seamlessly integrated to the Unilever processes.
Controllership
• Manage and improve financial business processes, and ensure financial records are in-compliance with global financial controls framework and Internal policies, procedures and external/SOX controls requirements.
• Ensure risk landscape is assessed and mitigated for the operation in line with Unilever risk mitigation guidelines (FX, Legal, Reporting etc)

Key Stakeholders
• Leadership team of Fragrance House
• BG CRDOs and Fragrance Procurement Lead.
• Fragrance Leadership team of HC, PC and B&W
• Business Group Finance/legal/regulatory teams
• Uniops Comex and I&A
• Global R&D Corp Function leaders and R&D Site leaders

ALL ABOUT YOU
• Previous finance experience, with specific expertise in financial planning and forecasting
• Proven track record in operating in a complex operating environment.
• Exposure to incorporating and running a separate legal entity is beneficial.
• Strong business partnering and stakeholder management skills.
• Highly analytical, with passion for delivering value-adding and sustainable results.
• Excellent communication and commercial acumen
• Strong negotiation and influencing ability.