CD Finance Manager

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job requisition id R-66116

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Job Title: CD Finance Manager

Location: Kingston Head Office

Reporting to: UKI Foods Senior Finance Manager

JOB PURPOSE

This role is positioned within the Foods UKI Finance team (circa €550m turnover business), as UKI Foods Finance Manager with key responsibilities for CD Finance. The role will report into the UKI Foods Senior Finance Manager. The role will partner the Foods CD Director and all Foods CBMs, to drive the performance management agenda and ensure we are fit to win with our customers. This role is at the heart of the business, covering activities from business planning, trade investment evaluation and in-market business unit execution. The role will work closely with BU teams across finance, CSP, CD, marketing as well as Controllers and CD Finance Operations teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Core:

• Support and challenge the CD team on stronger performance using the business insights from Trade Promotional Analysis tool (TPA), Anaplan, Market Heartbeat and Profit Pool to enable data driven strategy and decision making using internal and external data sets.
• Critically assess investment proposals while supporting and influencing CD teams to make the best data led decisions for the business.
• Support in the customer joint business planning process bringing expertise in business unit strategy to customer negotiations.
• Working with FET, Controllers and BU cross functional teams to provide key insights and analysis for customer investment decisions or market share performance in a specific cell and generating recommendations for corrective action.
• Challenging the short-term forecast and reviewing it against short and long-term targets and ambition to identify risks and opportunities, with focus on partnering for value
• Preparing material for the CD Business performance reviews as the finance representative.
• Identify interventions and process simplifications driving joined up E2E finance processes within the BU.
• Understanding external drivers of customer and business unit performance bringing insight to customer teams and driving action across CSP and CD to ensure that we focus on business value and winning in the market.

Additional:

• Grip and control of BG Specific Overheads, working with the leadership team to deliver in line with target & budgets. Ensuring a clear narrative and understanding of performance to manage risks and opps.
• Revenue Growth Management partnering with CS&P to build clear plans that will need delivery via innovation and renovation along with changes in promo mechanics.
• Informal line management to UFLP and IP working in the team. Providing support and also development opportunities for them to work in the CDF area.

BEHAVIOURS

• Accountability and Responsibility: Acts with high level of integrity in all activities to safeguard the financial position of Unilever and ensures the necessary controls are in place.
• Bias for Action: Acts with a sense of urgency and ruthlessly prioritizes. Influence colleagues to take action and land interventions.
• Growth Mindset: Ambitious for growth and enjoys challenging the status quo, which will ensure Unilever remains competitive vs both internal and external metrics.
• Talent Catalyst & Passion for High Performance: Demonstrable passion for developing team members, investing time in supporting career progression, while also holding the team to consistent standards of high performance

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Professional accounting qualification preferred (e.g. CIMA/ACCA)
• Ability to effectively business partner and build connections with stakeholders
• Ability to constructively challenge assumptions and hold others to account
• Excellent engagement and communication skills
• Ability to drive business agenda with dynamic leadership skills.
• Good commercial acumen
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to make the complex simple

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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