Finance Analyst – Home Care

Job Title: Finance Analyst – Home Care

Business Function: Finance, Home Care BG

Location: 100VE, London

JOB PURPOSE

Home Care Business Group is a €12 billion business. The BG is on a strategic journey to drive a clean future by disrupting and transforming the cleaning industry from being highly chemical-dependent to greener and more sustainable cleaning, through innovation and premiumisation. In parallel, the Business Group priority is to step up profitability through net productivity (SC/BMI/Overheads), network transformation, concentration and premiumisation, together with selective portfolio rationalisation.

We are the emerging markets leader, with No. 1 or 2 positions in our top countries. We have three key categories: Fabric Cleaning, Fabric Enhancers, and Home and Hygiene. Home Care operates as an independent business within Unilever, with full end-to-end P&L responsibility, creating a great opportunity to define and drive performance management and impact business decisions.

The Global Home Care Finance team partners with our global cross-functional business teams and local finance teams to set and implement strategy, drive performance and ensure value generation across the almost 100 markets in which we operate. We are known as a high-performing, diverse and inclusive team: our members come from different backgrounds, represent 15+ nationalities and together speak more than 20 languages. We have a strong learning culture and high standards for our work. We work hard, learn well, have fun and look out for each other.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Based in London (100VE) and reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, the role of Finance Analyst is to help develop and drive the financial strategy, business performance and innovation performance of multiple Home Care areas. It offers an opportunity to work as part of a cross-functional team within the Home Care Division, which would cover the following areas:

• Development and continuous improvement of an effective performance framework to track key KPIs with BUs and global business partners.

• Monthly performance analysis for both actuals and forecast to extract insights, identify hot spots and drive corrective actions.

• Support the monthly/quarterly reporting and planning cadence, including FC reviews and leadership meetings.

• Preparation and/or analysis of business cases for strategic projects in the BG.

• Support the long-term strategic planning and target-setting processes for BUs.

Key Interactions

• Home Care Business Group

  • Cross-functional business teams in BG central and BUs (CMI, Supply Chain, R&D).
  • Global brand leads and brand communities.
  • Global innovation project leads.

• Finance business partners

  • Global Home Care Finance team, including performance management, other category finance, supply chain, competitor intelligence, etc.
  • BU Home Care Finance teams.
  • Global Innovation FET team.

ALL ABOUT YOU

Knowledge and Skills

• Business and financial acumen, with a proven track record of delivery.

• Strong analytical skills, high attention to detail and bias for action.

• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to work fluidly with data and across systems.

• Ability to work collaboratively with other key stakeholders.

• High degree of flexibility and ability to quickly understand new topics.

• Accountability and responsibility.

• Strong prioritisation skills.

Qualifications / Experience

• Strong financial academic background.

• Minimum two years’ experience in finance business partnering roles

NOTES

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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