B&W Vietnam & GA DCommerce Finance Lead

ABOUT THE ROLE The role is responsible for providing end-to-end finance business partnering support for the B&W Vietnam business and leading D-Commerce finance partnering for Greater Asia in pursuit of sustainable, profitable growth. The role partners cross-functionally with the Vietnam Country Leadership Team, Greater Asia D-Commerce teams, and key customer/channel stakeholders to drive strong performance management, decision support, and value creation.   Finance Business Partnering (FBP) at Unilever is a highly dynamic and exciting role. As the owner of your Country Business Unit’s P&L, you are responsible for supporting the business with a CFO mindset. The role typically includes supporting the business in defining the right strategies, managing business cases to support new launch decisions, monthly forecast update and performance analysis, drive strategic analysis to drive long term value creation. The goal is always to advise and support your business partners to deliver consistent, competitive, profitable, and responsible growth, in the short and long run.   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Own performance management for B&W Vietnam and GA D-Commerce within scope: deliver robust actuals analysis, monthly forecasting, and budget/overhead control, with clear insights on growth, margin, and profitability drivers. Support business partners (e.g., GM/Marketing/Sales/CD/Customer Development, Supply Chain, and D-Commerce teams) with financial analysis and business cases to support key decisions (pricing, promotions, assortment, investments, innovations, and channel/customer terms). Participate in core business and performance forums for Vietnam and GA D-Commerce; provide finance perspectives, challenge assumptions, and support agenda and materials preparation as required. Co-drive Fuel for Growth / Savings agenda within scope, ensuring rigorous tracking of initiatives, delivery of savings, and reinvestment governance. Drive long-term profitability and value creation agenda across B&W Vietnam and GA D-Commerce, including strategic planning support and ROI-based portfolio choices. Lead timely and accurate financial reporting and analytics for relevant monthly/quarterly/ad-hoc submissions (local and regional), ensuring data quality and clear performance narrative.   ACCOUNTABILITIES: Drive business planning and agree the annual Financial Framework with leadership (Vietnam and GA D-Commerce within scope). Manage in-year business performance to deliver the Financial Framework, including rigorous tracking of risks/opportunities and corrective actions. Drive long term business planning using the financial growth model (FGM); Encourage a dynamic resource allocation among categories/brands; Analyse results to identify trends and drive actions to address or take advantage of; Variance Analysis versus prior year, previous forecast and framework Manage risk and opportunity tradeoffs within categories/brand and channels; Drive return on marketing investment (ROMI) & promotional efficiencies (OPSO); Interface with Supply Chain and Procurement to understand cost movements, and advise on pricing opportunities; Support innovation process and track post launch evaluations; Drive for process and reporting standardization/simplification; Build team’s capability for continuous improvement Ad Hoc projects as requested eg M&A activity, category recovery plans, etc   ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor/Master’s Degree, in related field (e.g. Business/Finance/Economics/Accounting/etc.). Relevant experiences preferred (e.g. FMCG/Finance Partnering/Auditing/etc.) Experience of finance in developing markets Deployment of financial growth model and gross margin capabilities Experience working on Brand building and/or Brand development finance Professional qualification in finance with experience in operational and business partnering roles. Excellent inter-personal and communicative skills REQUIRED LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS: Accountability & Responsibility Growth Mindset Business Acumen (Business-minded, with good financial understanding) Agility (Curious and Courageous) Consumer and Customer Focus Bias for Action

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