Assistant Finance Manager

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Job Title: Assistant Finance Manager

Location: Mumbai

Company Overview:

Unilever Ice Cream is the largest global Ice Cream Company in the world, with over 100 years of experience delivering a diverse range of indulgent, yet responsible, craft food experiences and treats delighting consumers. Committed to innovation, quality, and sustainability we have 35 brands, including 3 one billion Euro brands (Magnum, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s), a strong presence in over 60 countries, generating annual revenue of over $8 billion.

As part of our growth strategy, we are seeking a dynamic talent with strong expertise in managing large scale Finance transformation to join us as an Assistant Finance Manager.

About Ice Cream:

Kwality Wall's, the brand with a big heart, offers a range of delightful frozen desserts and ice creams that bring smiles to millions of Indians.

Kwality Wall's is part of Unilever's Heartbrand family of ice creams sold in more than 40 countries worldwide under many local names, including Wall's and Ola. In a world of stress, denial, and restraint, our passion is providing moments of daily pleasure to consumers through our delightfully delicious products. We believe in spreading happiness and smiles through every cone, cup, stick, and tub we sell. Our greatest satisfaction comes from the bliss and joy on our consumers' faces as they devour our products.

Kwality Wall's is loved for its wide variety of products, from indulgent treats like Cornetto, Magnum, and Feast

Key Facts

• Unilever is the world's biggest ice cream manufacturer, operating under the Heartbrand. Kwality Wall has been present in India since 1993.
• Heartbrand products are sold in more than 40 countries worldwide.
• Also sold as Algida in Italy & Turkey, Langnese in Germany, Kibon in Brazil, Streets in Australia and Ola in the Netherlands.
• Ice Cream in India will be a listed entity like the parent company

Job Summary:

We are looking for multiple candidates in different parts of IC Finance team which includes Finance business Partner, Performance Management, Controllership, CD finance, Tax, etc.

Key Responsibilities:

Finance Business Partnering: Developing an understanding of the strategies that drive our growth, you will be at the forefront of how we evolve to meet our goals. We have Finance Business Partners in Category, Supply Chain, Customer Development and the Finance Excellence Team.

As an Asst Finance Manager in a Business Partnering role, responsibilities include:

• Asst Manager – Category Finance: End-to-end P&L responsibility for delivering growth and unlocking profitability improvement, cash up and forecasting; identify opportunities to improve realisation; Drive discussions with category heads on performance management Asst. Manager – Supply Chain Finance: Driving gross margin and savings delivery, managing business waste; Preparing investment business cases with supply chain partners; Working with procurement team to identify areas of opportunity wherein significant value can be unlocked

• Asst. Manager – Customer Development Finance: Leading performance management at the Branch; Responsible for distributor life cycle partnering – distributor appointments, exits, attrition management, ROI; Operation controls and outliers

• Asst Manager - Finance Excellence Team: Driving business performance metrics and performance management for Categories. Enabling delivery of business financial targets; Driving forecast process hygiene Controlling Financial

Controlling is the fundamental building block of our function. A role here is an opportunity to develop your financial accounting, reporting and control skills as well as providing objectivity and challenge to the business. Working in this team will give you the broad exposure to the rest of the business as you build partnerships as a trusted change agent, actively driving the risk management agenda for the business. You will have the opportunity to develop project management skills and will get exposure to expertise areas such as tax and pensions. As part of the Controllers team you will have the opportunity to either work in one of our Accounting Centres, Financial Reporting or Investor Relations.

Expertise roles allow us to create value across our business. They are a great opportunity to enable experiences across the breadth of the business including payroll, insurance and treasury. Deployed well in our business, expertise roles are a major source of value. Understanding of foreign exchange markets and macro-economic factors affecting currency and hands on experience of PF Trust management and employee benefit administration are some of the things you can expect to learn from a role in Expertise.

Experience and Qualifications:

The preferred candidate would have 1-5 years of Finance experience with following key skills:

• Strong financial fundamentals along with solid business partnering skills.
• Strong systems understanding required due to the technical nature of the role.
• Experience in an Operating Country and some level of Global experience preferred
• Accounting / Supply chain finance background desirable.
• Ability to directly partner and challenge business partners by delivering concise messages / making the complex simple / getting to the right business insights
• Strong Modelling/Mathematical/Analytical skill a must.
• Excellent communication skills, including written English
• Strong work ethic, great attitude, self-starting & proactive mind-set, resilience in the face of pressure, good team player, ability to meet multiple stretching deadlines and attention to detail.
• Need to be able to roll up your sleeves

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Unilever IC embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! 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.