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.
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.
Key activities summary: Managing Treasury Middle Office
Provide expertise support globally on:
- Hedge accounting and reporting including documentation.
- Accounting for all Treasury instruments (Bonds, FX including Derivatives reporting such as Interest rate Swaps and Cross Currency interest rate swaps, Options etc).
- Responsible on daily basis to ensure no FX exposure and counter party exposures.
- MIS on Treasury activities enabling senior management to make right decisions.
- Robust documentation of all treasury reporting processes and ensure it is maintained year over year.
- Risk Assessment of all activities and building good controls to mitigate the risk.
- Support Digitization in Treasury Reporting and Controls.
- Forecasting of global Finance Cost and tracking actuals with FC.
- Support Projects for Treasury Reporting and Controls.
MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Financial Accounting & Reporting under IFRS 9 (including disclosures in Annual Reports).
- On time and in full accounting and reporting of Treasury transactions (zero tolerance to error).
- Forecast build for finance costs and net debt & variance analysis with Actuals.
- Quarterly booklet containing MIS for Treasury.
- Continuous improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy of the process.
- Management reporting, Financial reporting and Statutory Reporting of Parent and Holding entities (mainly contains Treasury financial flows).
- Resources –Individual Contributor. May manage contract resources.
- Key Contacts – Global Front office, UL countries and their Treasury personnel that are serviced by Global Treasury MO, Business Partners, 3P service providers, External and internal auditors.
Key Skills required
- Business partnering skills while ensuring service mindset within the team.
- Ability to apply professional knowledge in developing better robust processes.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse and interpret problems / data gathered from a variety of sources;
- Assertive and pro-active attitude and cultivates a willingness to learn and teach within the team.
- Maintain a high-performance culture within the team with high bias for action.
- Demonstrated ability to work with a range of technically and culturally diverse people.
- Ability to work under pressure and within strict non-negotiable timelines.
- Ability to take quick and correct actions in emergency situations.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully contribute multiple projects & competing priorities in a time sensitive environment.
Relevant Experience
- Min 5 years of experience in Investment Banking / Large Corporate Treasury/ Group Financial Reporting.
- Minimum Professional qualification of CA ; additional CFA qualification is preferred.
- Working knowledge of Wallstreet Treasury Suite is desirable but not mandatory.
- Strong on MS Excel and MS Power point.
- Strong on Stakeholder Management.
- Should be self-driven and have the ability to translate vision into actions.
- Demonstrated ability of working in a complex environment with global stake holders.