Assistant Finance Manager - Intercompany

Job Title: Assistant Finance Manager - Intercompany

Location: Bangalore

About Unilever

Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas, and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life – giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.

Job Summary

The role will play a pivotal role to maximize cost recovery and therefore protecting Unilever’s profitability. The documentation of services provided is key to be presented to tax audits.

The role offers a unique opportunity to develop key Finance skills as it blends Financial Reporting, Management Reporting and Tax and develop key leadership skills by engaging in a multi stakeholder environment (Tax, Legal, FCCR, Business Units and UniOps Finance).

Key Accountabilities

• Identify and propose areas of improvement, including the re-design existing processes to drive simplification.
• Create and maintain a repository of all agreements and cross charges for services provided from UniOps to all business units including new services to be provided in the future.
• Drive cash recoveries against invoices raised to countries. Identify countries having issues in making remittance and develop a plan of action specific to each country.
• Support in execution of strategic initiative and provide reports to leadership more efficiently and effectively.
• The role requires strong collaboration with different functions across UniOps on regular basis, and an ability to work independently to design solutions.
• Master-data rigor, especially in maintaining strong governance in the intercompany process and deep understanding of UniOps costs.
• Identifying potential areas to create operational efficiency, leverage technology and automate manual processes.
• Hold people accountable, have high level of responsibility, strong leadership skill, have a bias for action and growth mind set.
• Lead assignment to closure
• Ability to multi-task and deliver desired result.
  
  

• Expertise: Tax, Legal, Treasury and FCCR Teams (key stakeholders)
• Unilever Markets representatives (NFD’s, Controllers, General Counsels)
• UniOps Finance
• UniOps Service Lines and Programme Leads (when required)
  
  

• The ability and gravitas to influence senior stakeholders, with strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate and build effective working relationships at all levels.
• Passion for Change and Transformation.
• Proactivity and ownership of the agenda.
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment.
• Extensive knowledge of intercompany process.
• Extensive knowledge of reporting, master-data and cost accounting.
• Multi-Stakeholder management
• Knowledge of SAP, Finance Master-data, Cost Control Cubes, IFinance, FCCR.
• Excellent in Microsoft Office suite (Excel)
  
  

• Min 4 to 6 yrs Experience in managing month end process and Financials - P/L, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow of a large/mid-size organization.
• Good exp as a Finance Controller
• Understanding of risk, controls, Tax & Internal audit
• Strong data accuracy skills and attention to detail
• Process simplification/process excellence
• Working in multi-national teams and/or a virtual team environment
• Strong Accounting knowledge
• Hands on experience in SAP
  
  

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (Preferred)
• Graduate in Commerce or equivalent.