Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job
Unilever world’s most successful, purpose-led business looking for strengthening its future-fit team to drive sustainable business through superior performance, consistently delivering financial results in top third of our industry.
Finance & Reporting: In our pursuit to embrace 4G growth, finance plays very pivotal role in redefining future fit operations as well as embracing digital technology. This includes protecting and unlocking value, delivering decision support expertise and process excellence in the core business cycle and delivering business and finance priorities. Financial reporting is one such critical finance function covering regulatory compliance, transparency and controls .
UniOps (Erstwhile Unilever Enterprise & Technology Solutions (ETS)) is a global business unit that will manage the company’s shared business services, made up of HR Services, Finance Transactions, IT services, Information Management Services and Workplace Services.
Mission – To provide excellent services globally which enable Unilever to win in the market by
- putting the business’ goals at the heart of what we do
- leveraging cost-effective, best practice, global solutions across Unilever to meet users’ needs
- making continuous improvement in both cost and service an integral part of our way of working
- building a professional services organisation that enables our people to give their best
- developing win-win relationships with selected providers to meet our current and future requirements.
The key benefits from UniOps are expected to be:
- Lower cost of delivery through standardisation, simplification, process harmonisation & scale leverage.
- Better user experience by delivery of integrated service bundles to end-user.
- Continuous improvement through end-to-end process ownership.
Within the service catalogue of UniOps, Commercial Experience organisation is responsible for the management and delivery of finance and supplier services services globally, both through third-party outsourced providers (e.g. IBM, CapGemini) and through in-sourced operations.
Main Accountabilities
R2R: To facilitate smooth month end / quarter end close of financial reporting ( high quality as well as on time ) consisting of :
- Delivery of Key KPIs towards – Month end / quarter end close – TB Review / Country Lock Meeting / NFD Reviews
- Inter Company settlements / overdue review / follow-up on actions.
- Balance Sheet Hygiene / A/c recon- review and follow-up on quality of recon by 3PSPs
- V@R Review: Follow-up & actions
- GPM / GFCF Compliance – review and monitoring
- Project’s support – IFRS / S4 SCOA / Blackline etc.
- Service Delivery Review of 3PSP / key deliverables
P2P: To facilitate smooth functioning of Purchase to Pay operations (with close co-ordination with 3PSP ) consisting :
- Delivery of key KPIs : Payment on Time , First Pass Yield , PO Compliance etc.
- Co-ordination with MCOs on Overdue / Pending actions – GRNs / Price Variance approvals / other structural follows-ups
- Vendor reco. / balance review / GRIR -review & actions
- V@R Review : Follow-up & actions
- GPM / GFCF Compliance – review and monitoring
- Projects support – E-Invoicing / Below Clip / Apzen etc. – secure and drive implementation in MCOs
- * Service Delivery Review of 3PSP / key deliverables
Key Interfaces – Internal
Key Interfaces – External
- 3PSPs – Capgemini / IBM
- UniOps CE – OC / PEC
- MCO – Controllers Team
- Others – Supply chain, Procurement MCO- FET/MR Team, MCO Tax Teams
- Project Team – Global Team / SMEs / IT / IFRS etc.
- Auditors – Statutory
- Auditors – Internal Audit
- Vendors