Finance Agile Analyst at Unilever

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:

• To unlock value for the business through quicker output on High Value Investment decisions and / or Performance Interventions, all the way from inception to actual decision making / influencing
• Catalyst – gaining alignment to understand the business strategy; Work across the business; Ability to drive forward & execute the business’ growth & strategic initiatives
• Strategic – provide high level insight into a business performance; Act as a key stakeholder within decision-making processes and be able to influence with justified answers
• Operational – Support financial planning & analysis, Finance process re-engineering across the business, build new business models

JOB SUMMARY (Responsibilities)

• Monitor, track and challenge performance of category and seek to identify opportunities to close gaps
• Working as part of cross functional team on performance Interventions as agreed and approved by CCBT, FLT, CDLT
• Support CDLT on new initiatives, e.g. E-Commerce, New route to market options and new customers End to end Business partner within cross functional team working on Mergers and Acquisitions  Develop aligned tools and templates for common projects.
• Build capabilities within the team through leveraging diverse experience and best practice.
• Information requests
• PM for visualisation requests and other Information requests

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors’ Degree in Finance or Accounting; Professional Finance Qualification (CIMA) – added advantage
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years relevant experience from FMCG or a similar Industry, i.e. end-to-end Business Partnering experience
• Strong analytical capability
• Proven ability to negotiate and influence at all levels
• Commercial acumen - to understand the bigger picture and manage Stakeholders accordingly
• Financial Flexibility to deal with ‘disruption’ (over all Finance experience to allow you to be able to work on multiple and different projects).
• Management Accounting
• Project Management and Leadership