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 Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. 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”.

BUSINESS CONTEXT

The Gloucester Sourcing Unit Finance Manager is responsible for providing financial business partnering & controllership for one of the largest Ice Cream Sites in Europe with a cost budget of circa €60m.

Responsible for leading in-year performance and site strategic development together with the site leadership team.  Providing decision making support, Cost Deployment leadership & resulting savings delivery.

The role is accountable for keeping compliance of the site to the Unilever control framework. The IFM role is powered by a Country Make Expertise Team (MET) and shared services teams (SCFS, OC, IBM) on main accounting, controlling and reporting tasks.

JOB PURPOSE

• End to end ownership of full P&L and balance sheet for the site.  This includes:
• Site perimeter production costs and volumes
• Material Waste
• Business Waste – Cost of quality, Obsoletes, AWO, R2

RESPONSIBILITIES

• 3yr Master Plan and Budget Planning development
• Lead Performance management through Weekly Cost Governance and monthly cycle
• Month End/Controlling Activities
• Business partnering Site Leadership Team – Factory Director
• Responsible for delivery of in year financial performance (cost/waste/capex), final creation and submission of site forecast & annual business plan
• Responsible to ensure site on-ground controls are executed (inventories, assets, balance sheet)
• Co-creates and co-drives savings agenda with operations and uses available tools, eg manufacturing excellence methodologies, and benchmarking.
• Supports ABC process led by SCFS
• Support decision making for strategic projects

Key Stakeholders:

Finance

• EU IC Finance – Daily / Weekly / Monthly
• UK SU Finance Leads
• MCO Marketing Finance and SC Finance
• Europe Finance Controlling
• MET UK
• Optimise available shared resources (Industrial finance FET/ OC/ SCFS)

Operations

• Site Leadership team
• Category SC VP
• Category Planning Teams
• Category Innovation/Capex Teams

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Skills Overview: analytics, driving performance, stakeholder management, collaboration, influencing, decision making, willingness to learn
• Mobility requirements: Role to be Gloucester Based with minimal travel
• Standards of Leadership: Bias for Action, Accountability and Responsibility
• Professional qualifications and experience: Finance Qualification Equivalent to CIMA /business degree, fluent in English