Finance Business Partner: Food Solutions at Unilever

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:

 Overview:

• Drive conversations with the business on performance (focusing on the future)
• Be responsible to manage the entire UFS P&L for South Africa
• Develop plans and actions with the business to achieve strategy
• Use insights to impact business decisions
• Allocate resources to high value interventions

JOB SUMMARY

• Be accountable to manage UFS P&L and deliver USG and UOM targets together with business MD
• Identify value opportunities that require a particular intervention / project support from Finance Business Partner resources
• Review projects in process and upcoming challenges
• Drive better decision making around resource allocation and budget setting
• Undertake major performance interventions if needed
• Support the FET to influence at the key decision gates of innovation business cases
• Drive pre and post-launch interventions
• Review impacts of performance interventions
• Identify major risks and opportunities
• Develop corrective actions to close gaps to targets
• Make decisions around significant adjustments to carry into the financial forecast

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Finance Business Partnering and Category / Customer experience
• Experience with the identification of risks and opportunities in the P&L
• Experience in driving P&L performance improvements (e.g. closing gaps vs. target) and holding others accountable (particularly peers and senior leadership)
• Experience managing a large and complex set of stakeholders
• Experience in presenting to and communicating with senior Finance and non-Finance stakeholders
• Demonstrated competency at growing and developing people / teams
• Supply chain finance experience can be an added advantage (not required)

CLOSING DATE: Friday, 14th February 2020