FET Business Partner (Finance Excellence) at Unilever

JOB PURPOSE

• Act as the horizontal finance support to the FET Lead and CFO, providing consolidated commercial, capital and scenario-planning perspectives to enable faster, clearer leadership decision-making.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Centralised Scenario Planning

• Lead support for centralised scenario planning by consolidating customer, pricing, mix, trade investment, volume and margin inputs into clear, decision-ready commercial views.
• Assess trade investment, promotional spend and ROI performance for ad hoc, project-based and leadership review requirements.
• Support global and central ad hoc forecast, performance and project requests with concise financial summaries and scenario implications.
• Prepare project reviews and what-if analysis to support corporate scenario planning, investment choices and business trade-off decisions.
• Provide finance input into capital and investment reviews alongside the Supply Chain team, ensuring global and central context is clearly reflected.
• Conduct high-level post-investment reviews and track benefits realisation against approved business cases.

Business Partnering

• Prepare board, executive committee narratives that translate complex financial scenarios into clear choices, risks and recommendations.
• Deliver rapid-turnaround strategic, commercial and investment analysis to support emerging business questions and priority projects.
• Partner with CD Finance, Supply Chain Finance and Marketing Finance to create aligned, consolidated views for leadership decision-making.
• Engage Procurement and Supply Chain teams on capex and investment governance, ensuring finance inputs are connected to operational realities and global requirements.
• Coordinate with Strategy & Transformation on project priorities, scenario assumptions and business case implications.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Finance, with strong exposure to business performance, scenario planning, investments and financial planning.
• BCom Accounting or equivalent qualification is required.
• CA(SA), CIMA or similar professional qualification is advantageous.
• Experience in FMCG or a similar fast-paced, high-volume industry is required.
• Strong ability to translate complex financial analysis into concise executive-ready summaries and recommendations.