Finance Manager UKI Skin Cleansing, Gifting & PC and B&W CD Finance Lead

Finance Manager UKI Skin Cleansing, Gifting & PC and B&W CD Finance Lead

Please Note: The deadline for applying is 23.59 the day before the job posting end date.

Job Title: Finance Manager UKI Skin Cleansing, Gifting & PC and B&W CD Finance Lead

Location: Kingston

Work-Level: WL2B

The Europe Personal Care Finance team is a multi-disciplined group of professionals covering Finance Business Partnering, Supply Chain Finance, and Performance Management, with a high performance and dynamic mindset, and fostering pan European relationships to drive both professional and personal development.

JOB PURPOSE

This role will work within the PC UKI Finance team, as Finance lead for Skin Cleansing (₠250m TO) and Gifting. The role will own strategy & performance, partnering the Skin Cleansing & Gifting Director to drive multi-year profitable and competitive growth. This will involve end to end business partnering of the SCL + Gifting marketing team, CSP and CAMs.

In addition, this is the CD Finance Lead for PC and B&W, directly partnering 3 CD Directors and all PC and B&W CBMs, leading the performance management agenda and ensuring we are fit to win with our customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Skin Cleansing & Gifting:

• Driving force behind strategic financial plan, P&L shape and business model in partnership with SCL + Gifting Director

• Performance management lead for marketing and CD, partnering full P&L

• Partner value with SCL / Gifting CD community - driving our commercial strategy and leading performance interventions in partnership with SCL CSP Manager

• Support and challenge the SCL CD team 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.

• Partner CD teams to review performance at a small c vs forecast and vs target, highlighting gaps, identifying opportunities and recommending corrective actions.

PC and B&W CD Finance

• Act as PC and B&W lead, designing and implementing one way of working across Deos, SCL, B&W and acting as senior business partner / escalation point, whilst each finance manager will partner their own small c CAM community

• Critically assess investment proposals while supporting and influencing CD teams to make the best data led decisions for the business.

• Play a pivotal role 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 and leading the CD Business performance reviews as the finance representative.

• Lead 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.

• Managing the career/skills development of one direct report, with additional responsibility for supporting the development of talent & capabilities within the wider BU Finance team.

Leadership 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.

• Attention to detail.

• Good Excel / Modelling skills

NOTES

Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications may not be processed.

What we offer

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.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce.

Relocation to the UK

Please be aware if you are applying for this role from outside the UK, if successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. This means any relocation costs must be self-funded.