JOB TITLE: UI BG Finance Manager 

JOB LOCATION: Singapore 

FUNCTION: Finance 

REPORTS TO: UI Performance & Excellence Finance Director 

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BACKGROUND: 

Unilever International (UI) is an alternative but complimentary route to market business, servicing white space opportunities not exploited by local operating countries.  It is a global opco offering a diverse range of products sourced from over 80+ SUs/3PMs and utilizing 1000+ 3rd party distributors and consolidators to reach consumers in over 150 markets.  The business is headquartered in Singapore and has employees operating largely from 7 key hubs (Singapore, US, UK, Korea, India, Dubai and France).   The UI global sales of €1.2 billion in 2022 are invoiced from 35+ Unilever legal entity.  Beauty and Wellbeing (BWB) & Nutrition business groups is 50% of total UI business. 

UI Finance’s vision is to be a Future-Fit Customer-centric Finance function that is at the heart of decision making and playing a co-pilot role in unlocking and preserving value for UI. Business Group Finance Team is a key enabler to this vision. The role has the responsibility for driving performance management for BWB and Nutrition business groups. Portfolio transformation and brand building activities are key enablers to unleash growth potential and profitability improvement. The role of global brand and innovation finance lead is to shape future fit portfolio via innovation work with BG team to drive brand health performance and ensure our investment efficient and sufficient for strategic choices. This role offers the exciting opportunity to lead strategy development and global resources allocation work, partner from global perspective but operationalize with top markets/BU. It is a great choice for senior finance talent to strengthen business acumen and stakeholder management skills. 

Main Accountabilities: 

Strategy and performance 

Set long term strategic priorities with BG Lead 

Lead annual planning cycle on big bets investments across Marketing 

Drive in-year performance for short term and mid-term interventions 

Transparent and rigorous performance indicators to drive high quality performance 

Innovation and portfolio  

This role leads the global brand innovation and portfolio work, together with the BG team 

Set the portfolio target and innovation hurdle rates, track against with success criterias 

Analyze innovation funnels on sufficiency and quality 

Link innovation funnels with global funding choices  

Monthly and quarterly Marketing and Innovation LT to reflect latest choices 

Strategic Pricing and GM Deliverables 

Partner with BG team on setting strategic price and floor pricing for all portfolios 

Set GM targets and drive GM improvement plans delivery 

Skills Profile: 

Performance Management / FP&A experience in a FMCG industry (Preferred) 

Excellent communication skills with ability to present to Senior Stakeholders 

Experience with SAP, Hyperion Tools, Power BI  

Excellent engagement, presentation, and communication skills 

Strong analytical skills 

Demonstrated competency at growing & developing people/teams 

Working knowledge of S&OP and/or Annual Plan processes 

Key Interfaces: 

UILT, CLF, BG Cross Functional teams. 

Central Finance Teams  

Cross functional teams in CD, CD Ops, SC, Marketing in UI Hubs 

GCAD and Finance Controller Teams of key UI Invoicing hubs.   

Global Finance, Risk and Audit teams 

UniOps and Outsource service providers- UI Capgemini 

HR, tax and legal teams 

TO APPLY

Please apply online by clicking on the “Apply” button. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements. Should you not meet our immediate requirements, your profile will be registered in our talent pool system, and we will match your profile to suitable future vacancies.

You will be able to access your status update through the candidate tracking link.

In line with Singapore Government regulations, we are committed to giving priority to local Singaporean candidates during our hiring process. Applications from foreign candidates will be considered if suitable local talent is not available

Thank you for your interest and application.

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