Costings Accountant at Unilever

JOB PURPOSE

• The main purpose of this role will be to deliver on Inventory Accuracy, Valuation updates and Reporting. (Transfer pricing and PCE process following Global PCE and TP guidelines and produce a valid product cost estimate for all SKU’s. Validate costings are correct and update all appropriate systems including SAP and appropriate sharepoints.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Product Costing:

• Prepare Templates for Procurement inputs.
• Review pricing from procurement, challenge and validate by comparisons and sense checks.
• Upload pricing into SAP.
• Create Costing runs, execute, manage errors and validate.
• Product final PCE’s
• Manage daily costing requests.
• Produce PCE’s for innovation packs.

Transfer Pricing:

• Input PCE’s into transfer pricing models.
• Produce TP’s in house for SnA countries not out sourced to the Central Hub.
• Validate outputs.
• Ensure SharePoint’s are updated.
• Ensure Master data for pricing is updated with new pricing.
• Business partner with Costing lead and give input into PPV’s and charge outs.
• Manage daily requests for TP’s from all countries for SnA.
• Manages Central data base of TP’s for Africa Cluster.

Price Variance:

• Weekly Analysis
• Query follow up
• Inventory Corrections
• Moving Average Analysis

Business Partnering:

• Business Partner with Procurement, R&D and SU’s for inputs into TP’s.
• Business Partner with local teams on PCE outputs.

Reporting:

• Business Partner and input into the Zipper decks and other analysis as required.

Governance:

• Business Partner with the Africa PCE lead and ensure Global PCE guidelines are being followed for SnA.
• Ensure TP’s are produced per Global TP rule book.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• B Comm (Finance)
• Studying toward CIMA an advantage
• Businesses experience an advantage