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JOB TITLE FET Financial Analyst
LOCATION Kingston or Port Sunlight Office & Factories
JOB PURPOSE
The role will drive efficiency in the budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes of the UniOps organisation while enabling short term control over costs and driving longer term leverage. The role is responsible for budget management within the service line, ensuring that budget owners have transparency. And ensuring that actuals are reflected accordingly
The role will include supporting of business cases less than 3m, ensuring they are commercially viable.
FET Analyst-Planning is an excellent role to further develop and utilize accounting skills, to gain experience in the management of a global budget.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Budget Management
- Work with the FBP and service lines to ensure budgets are fully understood so effective management can take place
- Ensure controls are in place to effectively track and manage the budget to avoid under/over spending; highlight issues in time to enable pro-active resolution.
- Provide support to the service line team, in order to track actual spending and enable accurate forecasting. Track actual vs. forecasts and highlight any issues proposing course of action
- Perform Accruals / Provisions / Prepayments / Reclassifications as required working with SSP and Service lines.
- Manage the budget transfer process with various stakeholders
- Ensure intercompany charge outs are completed effectively, initiate as required
- In conjunction with FBP – Support the annual budgeting process, including the visibility of key drivers so budgets can be set accordingly.
- FTE Capitalisation coordination with Project leads, service line, FBP
- Programs Monthly tracking and reporting – budget actuals vs forecast
Forecasting
- Partner with Service Line budget holders, FBP’s and SSP team in monthly & quarterly forecasts
- Ongoing performance review of actuals vs forecast and gaps to close
- Assist the finance team in analysing resource allocation among projects
- Review of forecast bias/accuracy and drive improvement with finance business partners. Share best practices to drive accuracy
Business Cases
- Financial sign off, of all business cases under 3m.
- Ensure all relevant documentation is in place
Continuous Improvement
- Regular review of processes and driving simplification projects (GLC, ETS ICC hierarchy clean-up), while enhancing controls.
- Guidance on accounting treatment to Finance Business Partners
- Provide ad hoc analysis of business performance.
ALL ABOUT YOU
- Strong analytical, data accuracy skills and communication skills
- Ability to work fluidly with data and across systems
- Experience in financial accounting or management accounting
- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work collaboratively with others on key deliverables
- Ability to drive process and report simplification & improvements
- Excellent in Microsoft Office suite, including Excel, Word and Outlook
- Commercial acumen
- Resilience (ability to cope with time pressure and challenges)
- High degree of flexibility and ability to quickly understand new topics
- Ability to work collaboratively with other key stakeholders
- Strong engagement, presentation and communication skills
- Ability to present complex information in a simplified manner
- Strong analytical skills, Excel modeling skills and attention to detail
- Creative & innovative
- Digitally savvy/capable
- Finance Qualified accountant or equivalent
NOTES
About Unilever
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.
Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’
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
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