Treasury & Insurance Coordinator

We hope that you will want to build the new chapter of our Ice Cream history together with us.

ABOUT ICE CREAM: Life Tastes Better With Ice Cream

Unilever Ice Cream is the largest global Ice Cream Company in the world, with over 100 years of experience delivering a diverse range of indulgent, yet responsible, craft food experiences and treats delighting consumers. Committed to innovation, quality, and sustainability we have 35 brands, including 3 one billion Euro brands (Magnum, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s), a strong presence in over 60 countries, generating annual revenue of €8 billion. All brands are driven to transform moments into memories through indulgent yet responsibly made and marketed products. We have a well-developed strategy to deliver growth and value creation which is clear on where to play and how to win.

We turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by designing unique and innovative Ice Cream experiences that make life taste better, creating joyful experiences. In our Ice Cream business, we’re crafting the future through innovation and imaginative minds, creating unique products. We spark moments of happiness for people and within the communities where we operate. However, it is not as simple as it may seem. As Ice Cream makers we are serious about happiness. With warm hearts, we create the coolest products. 

Leading for a winning, trusted and investible global ice cream market leader

This is your chance for a ‘once in a lifetime’ career experience, playing a part in the creation of a fully independent, new Ice Cream organisation.in what will be the Ultimate Pleasure Food company. 

Just imagine the benefits of working within a single category, where everyone and everything is laser-focused on the same goal, where there's opportunity to develop deep and wide understanding of the business economics and international ecosystem of a single category, and to translate that into value creation. 

JOB PURPOSE:

The Treasury & Insurance assistant manager is responsible for overseeing the cash positions, ensuring the financial health of the organization, and supporting a strategy vision that impulse the business growth in terms of cash.  This position is key to maximizing financial resources, managing cash flow and investments, maintaining strong relationships with bank and financial institutions, as well as assisting to the Country Controller and CFO in the overview of cash flow positions.

We are seeking a reliable, pro-active and detail-oriented Treasury & Insurance professional to contribute to the sustainability and success of the company, protecting it from financial risks and aligning its resources with corporate objectives.

As the Insurance Assistant Manager, you will act as a trusted expert, providing expert guidance on insurance matters to our local business units and senior leadership. Your main responsibility will be to ensure the effective and efficient provision of insurance management.

To excel in this role, you must possess a strong understanding of cash flow and treasury principles. As an organized professional with keen attention to detail, you should be dependable and capable of working independently and collaboratively.

The role reports to the IC Brazil Controller, providing visibility, assurance, and guidance on cash flow management and forecast.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Cash Flow Liquidity and Forecasting:

• Oversee and manage the cash flow positions daily in order to ensure sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational requirements considering the local legislation and the political-economic aspects of the country.

• Oversee daily treasury activities including managing daily liquidity, cash position reconciliation, bank reports, and monitoring the cash inflows and outflows of the group notifying the pertaining areas.

• Ensure to handle electronic bank operations (capture and process) such as wire transfers corresponding to payroll, tax, utilities, other local payments, funding cash between each existing bank accounts of the country when necessary.

• Emission of cheque books in certain process such as labor trials. Creation of beneficiaries either from local or foreign currency.

• Oversee and analyze bank fees related to cash management expenses. Manage excess operating cash to obtain optimum interest revenue.

• Forecast the Group’s short-term financing requirement and ensure comprehensive monitoring of the cash flows.

• Advise manager/controller on the liquidity aspects of its short- and long-range planning in order tohave a correctly decision making.

• Support in the creation and handling of various analytical reports such as inflows and outflows in local and foreign currency versus the forecast of purchase of foreign currency, and similar templates.

• Preparation of the Financial Flexibility (FinFlex) Review bi-annually.

Manage Bank Relationship and Other Stakeholders:

• Liaise with Commercial Banks to improve the quality of their Trade Finance and Banking services to the Group in order to have a strategical collaborative relationship to operate the credit lines to meet all the local payments.

• Maintain strong communication with global treasury to meet all the finance affairs related to the liquidity of the country.

• Develop a structure to work with multiple business partners, sharedservices and FP&A teams to build up the cash liquidity and other financial reports (FinFlex) on time basis.

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Financial Risk Mitigation:

• Monitoring the Group Forex exposure daily to ensure that the exposure is maintained below the Global Treasury approved limit and taking Forex cover (purchase) or use hedging to mitigate financial risks related to the currency and interest rates on the company's cash flows and borrowings, as applicable.

• Ensure cost effective exposure management technique via discussing with the banks and global treasury.

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Compliance Internal and External Audits:

• Ensure the main treasury policies are followed up and assess the viability and sustainability of such policies as the time comes, so it imposes an adequate level of control over treasury activities and provide support for regulatory reporting.

• Ensure that treasury SOX controls are done and completed on time basis and in accordance withthe different risk management one pagers.

• Support in the internal and external audits requirements on time basis, so the audits could be performed accordingly.

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Efficient Processing:

• Complete special projects as assigned for presentation to senior management. Develop treasury reporting dashboards appropriate for various stakeholders.

Insurance:

• Collect data about assets and other pertain items that require to be insured with multiple functional teams such as supply chain, fixed assets, WPS, and other ones in order to ensure that all assets are covered.

• Support in the manage of the global policies of the group with a strong relationship with central teams in order to have all the requirements aligned and covered on time basis.

• Support the local policies of fleet vehicles and trucks, cash and valuables, and transports, since the beginning of collecting all the pertain data, obtain quotations, implementation, making sure to issue the invoices in system, amortization of those payments in the GL accounts.  

• Reviewing that insurance policies on adequate of existing covers, study developments and recommended changes.

• Obtain quotations on insurance cover through insurers, examine competitiveness and recommend for implementation.

• Strong Relationships with insurers/brokers; interview them, when necessary, on insurance matters.

• Manage all the process of renewals on time basis since the beginning with collecting the pertain data, validate the information, report in the system, negotiate with insurers all the coverages and payments, make the corresponding accrual in the GL account, confirm the final invoice and ensure to the make the payment in time and make the corresponding amortization of those prepayments made.

• Supervise the executive or the insurer implant are performing efficiently his activities related to claims of local policies (mainly the fleet vehicles), since the beginning of the claims reporting the sinister, make the inspection, valuation and ask the documentation support to initiate the sinister, validate the data, follow up of raised cases and ensure that the payment made by the insurer is correct and on time basis.

• Assist in the compliance of Group Policy on insurance by ensuring that all local Policies taken on time and are in line with Group Guidelines.

• Responsible for preparation of the Insurance account reconciliations and reconciling the same.

• Act as the main contact to provide assistance in relation insurance matters. keeping original insurance policies safe.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED: 

Experiences & Qualifications​​

• ​Bachelor’s degree in Finance & Administration, Accounting or related fields.

• ​Experience in finance, particularly in roles that manage cash flow, bank relationships and insurance.

• ​Comprehensive understanding of cash flow statements, forecasting cash positions and financial risk management.

• ​Proven experience in treasury management that allows a correct decision-making.

• ​Knowledge of local legislation concerning cash liquidity and forex.

• ​Familiarity with SOX compliance, auditing processes, and risk management controls.

• ​Experience in the business partnership with multiple areas either financial or non-financial.

• ​Shown skills with MS Office (excellent skills in Excel and medium in Power Apps) and SAP Finance module.

• ​Good communication skills in English.

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Skills

• Stakeholder management

• Effective communication

• Prioritisation

• Excellent analytical ability.

• Ability to challenge pro-actively.

• Analytical thinking and attention to detail.

• Ability to work collaboratively and explain technical concepts clearly.

REPORTING STRUCTURE

The role will report to the Finance Manager.

YOUR ICE CREAM BASE

Work location: WT Torre B;  Hybrid;  Office-based role- São Paulo- SP