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JOB TITLE: Unilever International - Supply Chain Finance

JOB LOCATION: India - Mumbai

FUNCTION: Finance

WORK LEVEL: 1C/1D

REPORTS TO: Supply Chain Finance Manager

Background:

Unilever International (UI) is an alternative but complimentary route to market, servicing white space opportunities not exploited by local operating countries. It is a global business unit with 9 hubs (Singapore, US, UK, Korea, India, Dubai, France, Philippines and Australia) with a diverse range of products, with expertise in utilizing 3rd party distributors and consolidators to reach consumers in over 75 countries.

UI have been operating successfully as an alternate RtM to complement MCOs to serve these white spaces through a network of 500+ market expansion service providers and specialists via seeding initiatives. The market expansion providers or distributors in countries provide brand building and customer development services to UI under the agreed operating frameworks using the brand toolkits provided. UI have strategically evolved its portfolio from availability led growth to seeding in the last 5 years.

Job Purpose:

UI SCF Assistant Manager / Sr Executive will play a true pivot role in the UI SC and UI Finance organization. The incumbent plays a key role in performance management, being directly involved in the definition of the UI strategy and ensuring it translates successfully in the annual results. The job provides a great opportunity to work with a large range of stakeholders in UI organization and comes with high exposure/visibility to UI leadership team.

Responsibilities of the role:

Product Cost: He/she will be responsible to ensure Best in class TP analytics and benchmarking to optimize sourcing network, deep understanding into underlying cost movement and work closely with Sourcing to capture low cost moments for key SKUs. Analyze and understand the impact of commodities price movement, and exchange rates to the cost and margin. Purchase price review and analysis, understand the drivers of the cost movement, perform cost benchmarking. Drive accountability behind the actions. Work closely with Procurement and Sourcing Unit Finance teams to improve TP Process.
Cost Savings: He/she will responsible to drive cost conscious culture into all cross functional teams, provide full visibility into cost to serve and best in class benchmarking and work closely with all business teams (supply chain, procurement, business development) on new project, eg: new sourcing, alternative sourcing, cost saving project, capex investment, new business flow, etc). Create business case, analyze the cost and profitability, understand each components of the cost, challenge the price and cost necessarily. This also involves validating a savings
Innovation Process: The role will be responsible to set up innovation partnering process, including analysis of new business opportunities and Projects via business case preparation, strategize profitable business models, financial flow modelling, recommend best cost to serve model and risk mitigation. Prepare financial framework to track post launch evaluation, make recommendation to tweak the model to delivery better KPIs.
Capex: Design framework to track capex invested, volume commitment and cost movement.

SC finance capabilities: Leads the development of new capabilities (Automation/ Centralization/ Elimination) and analytics giving the SC finance team to tools to operate with a higher level of effectiveness.
Performance Management: He/she will be actively participating on driving profitability, managing risk, challenging business teams, managing costs across all UI Gross Business Units and P&L drivers; reviewing actuals vs forecast and flagging key issues to promote accountability and picking early warning signals to drive opportunities. Monthly cost forecasting, Month end review, Analysis, Drive Insights and Actions with focus on Cost.

Candidate:

Essential Experience:

>3 years of experience in various Finance roles: Supply Chain, Business Partnering, Procurement, Financial Analytics
In depth knowledge of Operational / Financial Processes: Master data management, Costing & Transfer pricing principles, Financial Accounting,
Commercial support and decision support (including preparing financial models and ROI analysis)
Experience in Investment evaluation, analysis and KPIs.
Strong Analytical capabilities with bias to Drive Action.
Advanced Microsoft Office skills, SAP and BW operational Knowledge
Knowledge on reporting tools, eg: Power BI will be advantage.

Soft Skills:

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Mature and highly credible individual with strong business and financial acumen
Flexibility and comfortable working in a fast pace matrix reporting environment
ability to operate independently and in a fast-paced environment
Ability to earn respect and trust from senior management
Self-driven, forward looking, results-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus
Diligent and willing to be hands, ‘roll up your sleeves’

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