FET Analyst – EWA Job Unilever
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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 is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and passionate Financial Planning & Reporting Analyst to join the Finance Excellence Team (FET) team. The role will support the FET Manager in driving Performance Management, P&L scenario analysis and preparing relevant reports that provide strategic insights and inform high impact financial decisions. It contributes to the effectiveness of the financial planning cycles and of the governance process for investments. If this is what you are looking for, then this role is just for you!
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Main Responsibilities
Planning and Forecasting:
Intensely drive the Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) process quarterly
- Enforce S&OP and forecasting timetable across ALL East & West Africa (EWA) markets
- Lead Cash up of S&OP outcomes, ensuring timely closure of the same
- Collate and review the inputs received from various stakeholders
- Perform variance analysis S&OP vs previous S&OP to check for errors and make sure major drivers are understood
- Compile a list of risks and opportunities from every market to support the FET manager to calculate a contingency for the region
- Maintain list of assumptions used for S&OP
- Lead the Financial FC submission for East Africa and EWA countries as assigned
- Ad-hoc P&L scenario analysis and reporting as required
Key Stakeholders: EWA GM, EWA Head of Finance, Country GMs, Commercial Finance leads, Supply Chain Finance lead
Role in Month end:
- Be the primary lead on the Month end process and be accountable for meeting all quality and time criteria for this task.
- Coordinating various stakeholders, including offshore Uniops team to ensure Month End activities are performed on time, all variances are clearly investigated and documented in line with the reporting standards.
- Ensuring submission of MEC related reports to global and Uniops on time and of good quality.
- Responsible to present Month / Quarter results to in country teams and ensure appropriate sign-offs
Performance Review and analytics
- Support FET manager to lead a performance review with different Leadership teams
- Ad-hoc analysis and reports to drive business performance
- Support in preparing Targets and tracking Actuals vs the targets, including identifying interventions needed to mitigate any risks & opportunities.
Experiences & Qualifications
- Professional Finance qualification equivalent to CPA Finalist, CIMA or ACCA
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Financial Planning & Reporting, Commercial Finance or similar roles.
- Experience working with diverse stakeholder groups within a multinational or multi-country organisation set up.
- Should be able to demonstrate significant understanding of the P&L construct, key drivers across different lines and ability to influence business performance.
- Experience with data analytics, or data visualisation tools (Power BI etc)
Skills
- Mastery and excellence in usage of Excel and any key ERP (SAP preferred).
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Analytical thinking, problem solving attitude
- Ability to influence across different stakeholder groups including diverse geographical and cultural contexts.
- Significant data analytics skills
- Team leadership capability
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