Title: Country Finance Head
Location: Singapore
Job Number: 15000KK5
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Unilever
is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care
products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a
day. It has 172,000 employees and generated sales of €48.4 billion in 2014.
Over half (57%) of the company’s footprint is in developing and emerging
markets.
Unilever has more than 400 brands found in
homes around the world,
including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos,
Hellmann’s, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and
Lynx.
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Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) commits to:
Decoupling
growth from environmental impact.
Helping
more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being.
Enhancing
the livelihoods of millions of people by 2020.
Unilever
was ranked number one in its sector in the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
In the FTSE4Good Index, it achieved the highest environmental score of 5. It
led the list of Global Corporate Sustainability Leaders in the 2014
GlobeScan/SustainAbility annual survey for the fourth year running, and in 2015
was ranked the most sustainable food and beverage company in Oxfam’s Behind the
Brands Scorecard.
Unilever
has been named in LinkedIn’s Top 3 most sought-after employers across all
sectors.
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JOB TITLE: Finance Business
Partner
JOB LOCATION: Singapore
RELOCATION TERMS: Local
terms
Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is an actively growing
global business. Our purpose is clear to Free Chefs to love what they do.
We’ve been in food since the 1880s, and home to some of the world’s
favorite brands: Knorr®, Hellmann’s®, Lipton® and more. We work closely with
businesses of all sizes, from independent restaurants through to hotels, chains
and contract caterers, in 74 countries. We help chefs all over the world
serve tasty, safe, wholesome meals that keep guests coming back for more.
UFS Singapore is growing rapidly with healthy
profitability. The business has embarked on acceleration journey focusing on
building both current and future portfolio, expanding the reach, leveraging
best in class digital engagement with our trade partners and operators
supported by strong talents in the industry.
We are looking for a high caliber candidate to fill in
the opening that we currently have as Finance Business Partner for UFS
Singapore.
The Finance Business Partner will act as the business
partner to the Managing Director (MD) and is the Finance representative of the
country business steering team. She / He will actively drive and execute the Mutli-Cluster
Organization (MCO) finance agenda that supports the overall strategy and
ultimately the financial targets for the country.
The fairly unique role spans over the total Profit & Loss (P&L) from Gross
Sales Value (GSV) to Core Operating Profit (COP) and covers finance
responsibilities both in business partnering and controlling. He / She is also
the business partner to Marketing and Customer Development (CD) and he / she is
responsible for financial planning, reporting and control, working closely
together with the local shared services and UFS Southeast Asia (SEA) MCO
Finance team.
The responsibilities include local as well as cross-country MCO tasks in the
operating framework.
Main Accountabilities:
Decision Support
Local performance reviews (with MD, cross functional
business steering team and relevant other teams, e.g. Channel business teams)
Framing analysis for “what if” scenarios and sensitivity
analysis
Preparation of business cases, e.g. for Marketing
projects, Capex and other investments, as well as support of post launch
evaluations
Analysis of supply chain cost movements – internal and
external
Support of local pricing processes
Return of Investment (ROI) evaluation of local and MCO
Marketing and CD activities
Analysis of Trade Marketing Investment (TMI) spend, Advertising
& Promotion (A&P) and Indirects
Decision support for effective corrective actions and
gap closing activities
Financial Planning, Forecasting and Reporting
Monthly, quarterly, yearly closure routines – close
interaction with shared services
Preparation of local and MCO relevant reports in line
with MCO strategy and MCO closure and reporting schedule
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process:
responsible for cash-up and strong challenger role in activity planning and gap
closing
Forecasting of local P&L including risk &
opportunities assessment
Support of preparation of local short and long-term
plans, involvement in MCO short and long-term plans
Budgeting of local and MCO investments, e.g. A&Ps,
indirects
Controls
Trade Terms / TMI controls – accrual management and Joint
Venture (JV) preparation, including tabulation of sales rebates and instilling
rigour in the TMI reimbursement process
Budget control for local relevant budgets.
Others
Drive financial awareness of business partners
Foster working principles of all teams
Close interaction with Food Solutions (FS) MCO Finance
team
& shared services for all
relevant matters
Take ownership for responsibilities on MCO level on top
of local responsibilities whenever required
Key Interfaces
Internal
On a regular basis the job holder is required to work with:
Country
MD
Local
Team (All Functions)
Shared
services
Local
National Finance Directors
Local
Finance Controller
All
key finance roles within-country
Audit
Supply
Chain
Legal
External
Customers
-
key
customers
Distributors
– information sharing
External
Audit
Relevant skills/experience
required:
Minimum
Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized institution
Successful
track record in finance business partnering
Prior experience in a multi-national
corporation with a regional/global portfolio
Technical
competency in accounting standards and financial modelling
TO
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