Reporting, Information & Analytics Analyst at Unilever

JOB PURPOSE

• Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. This role plays a key role in the company’s corporate management accounting. Reporting individual would be required to Manage Global submissions within communicated timelines, this role is also key in driving the Information & Analytics digital agenda within finance.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Ensure accurate and timeous preparation and submission of analysis of monthly/quarterly results and forecast reports to Global reporting UniOps team
• Proactively initiate develop and maintain effective working relationships with business partners (Global, ZALT, FET and InA fellow team members.
• Maintain library of historical data and submissions.
• Maintain and ensure alignment across all reporting systems SAP, BW, GCUT and Ifinance .
• Create and maintain process documentation/workflows, knowledge articles and self-service guidance for global reports.
• Understand how to clean and organize data for analysis.
• Automate standard reports in line with efficiency mandate.
• Business partner Southern Africa director on all reporting matters.
• Update financials on Income statement commentary file for variance analysis

I&A

• Member of the simplification/ automation committee to help drive and land the Finance Digital Agenda
• Partner with the business including I&A and offshore teams including the team in Bangalore to accelerate digital, RPA and other cognitive capabilities.

Reporting

Responsible for accurate submissions to Global reporting team; actuals and forecast, maintaining a good reporting score for each of the below reports:

• Flash Turnover
• V200 actual reports
• TWC actuals
• Daily sales build report
• CMI reports - Nielsen
• V220 Customer
• V540 GMVA actuals
• Forecast GMVA
• TWC forecast (working capital)
• Monthly Forecast P&L
• Timeous commentary for all above reports to be provided to APM team as well as Global reporting team every month.

Experiences & Qualifications

• 3 - 5 years Finance experience (FMCG industry preferred)
• BCom Degree – Financial / Accounting
• CA or CIMA would be highly advantageous

Skills

• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with key stakeholders
• Natural bias for action, high levels of self-assurance and shows resilience and belief in own ability to achieve goals
• Ability to influence without authority in a matrix organization
• Strong Analytical skills and ability to communicate analytical findings both verbally (in meetings) and in written form (through formal presentations)
• Strong initiative and ability to work independently
• Ability to work under pressure and late hour over the month end reporting period
• SAP, GCUT, Ifinance experience 

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.