Unilever International

**JOB LOCATION: Singapore**
**RELOCATION TERMS: Local terms**

**ABOUT UNILEVER INTERNATIONAL (UI)**

As the **ninth global cluster**, we work across the world to **fill white spaces** for Unilever.

We treat the business as our own.

As **intrapreneurs**, we **introduce Unilever’s brands into white space geographies** like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and **spearhead launches of iconic household brands** like Dove, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Fair & Lovely, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, China, Europe and SEAA.

As Unilever’s growth engine, we **establish global white space businesses in key channels** such as Health & Beauty, Discounters, E-Commerce and alternate channels such as travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and **seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora** who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands.

Singapore is our** global hub** leading strategy, marketing thinking, seeding plans, and alignment with the global categories and supply chain.

**Game changing business.**

**SPEED** is the mantra for our resounding success. **To serve the underserved**, we embrace a **founder’s mentality**, explore unchartered territories, redesign end-to-end business models to establish successful businesses. We **make a difference** by **working fast and smart, nurturing our tribe, winning together** and living by **five tenets**:
We will be the fastest route-to-market globally; We go where no (man, woman or distributor) has ever explored; Impossible is an opinion, not a fact; Speed is our currency; When brands are built right, they can last a lifetime.

**IMPORTANCE OF THE ROLE..**

This role will oversee financial operations across SEA UI hubs which service the Asia Geography. The Role will support the business operations in these hubs as well as other start-up business units, which are launching across other countries as we look to accelerate Growth. The business is likely to see rapid growth through organic and white space activities, and is managed by a cross functional business team, that has dedicated resources in Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Demand Planning and Finance.

The purpose of this role is to provide finance/ commercial business partnering to the business team in the areas of performance management, CD finance, Supply chain finance and Risk and controls. This role will also be involved in evaluating new business opportunities and liaison with business groups, other hubs and Singapore HQ to share best practice.

**ROLES RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Operational Processes and Controls**
- Overseeing month-end activities (e.g. monthly forecasting, month-end review) to generate insights and appropriate actions
- Ensuring financial records comply with relevant policies, procedures and external/SOX controls requirements
- Review in month performance vs forecast, highlighting gaps and recommending corrective action
- Month end reporting, communicating insight and analysis to the business group leads and the MSO businesses.
- Responsible for the integrity of respective balance sheets.
- Ensuring sound and robust internal control systems (e.g. expedient payment approval/verification process)
- Driving integration and analysis of new business opportunities and projects

**Performance Management**
- Actively driving growth, profitability, pricing decision, managing risk, challenging business teams, managing costs across SEA P&L drivers
- Reviewing actuals vs forecast and escalating potential issues
- Driving internal operational planning, marketing activity planning and pricing decisions
- Overseeing rolling forecasts and business plans for brands/channel/geography

**Business Partnering**
- Act as finance business partner to the heads of UI SEA
- Ensuring that pricing is within the Unilever International strategic framework across all portfolios.
- Help CD and Marketing Maximise Return on Investment;
- Develop business cases to evaluate new business opportunities required to maximise growth potential of the channel. Challenging assumptions and highlighting risks and opportunities.
- Build relationships with Supply chain team to understand the cost base within the UI P&L, including forecasting future cost movements and understanding implications on pricing.
- Develop close working relationship with UAPL Finance Team

**Accountabilities**:

- Financial results delivery of the UI business vs. Prior year and submitted forecast.
- Year on year sales growth and gross margin enhancement.
- A rigorous and accurate 12-month financial forecast.
- Integrity of the balance sheet
- Improvement in operational effectiveness measures (bill to cash, purchase to pay).
- Overheads - Budget management.
- Simplification of existing processes to focus on Effective Business Partnering.
- Working Capital management in conjunction with credit control

**Consultation**:

- Monthly financial forecast.
- Business performance reviews.
- New business evaluation.
- Acquisition or