BCS-Senior Country Controller at Unilever

Job description

Your Main Responsibilities: -

• Ensure integrity and control across accrual/payment process.
• Engage with the cluster finance teams to ensure compliance to accounting standards and policies.
• Responsible for managing category budgets (Bought in Cost (BIC) and departmental costs) budgets.
• Key driver of robust resource and budget allocation across categories, marketing development, R&D activities and capital expenditure.
• Challenge inefficiencies and indicate drivers for review.
• Use relevant competitive benchmarks (financials, shadow P&Ls) to identify savings opportunities and/or areas under leveraged.
• Leverage standard performance reporting to enable Brand LT / GCLT to have a 360-degree view of business and hold itself and others accountable for delivery of strategy and performance.
• Actively drive simplification of reporting through use of standard ES reports and tools e.g. MBI, One View.
• Partner with Supply Chain finance to ensure proper understanding of product cost levers and key drivers of manufacturing costs.
• Analyze results and consult Global and Regional finance managers for variances explanations versus forecast.
• Participate in cross Category work streams to drive best practice in key challenge areas such as ROMI, gross margin, sustainability, Digital etc.

Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• Professional qualification in finance or accountancy.
• 9+ years of experience, with at least 5 years in a senior role in finance
• Strong control and analytical mindset.
• Strong people management skills and ability to motivate remote teams.
• Effective Business Partnering.
• Performance Management and business planning.
• Decision Support and Ad Hoc evaluation.

Your Personal Power! :-

At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed! This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture

We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.

If you are an entrepreneur at heart and have a passion for winning, a strong understanding of the CPG business, ad would like to join us, apply and speak to one of our Talent Matchmakers!