Finance Manager - People Cost FET

Job Title: Finance Manager – People Cost FET
Location: UniOps, Bangalore 

About Unilever:

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Purpose of the Role:

This role is part of the Corporate FET team responsible for managing the People cost for Global Digital Tech (GDT)and Business Services (GBS) and reports to the Global Cost Controller under One performance team. The role plays play a key role in fundamental rethinking and strategic reshaping of People cost, supports key stakeholders within GDT, GBS and HR. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a high potential, top talent in Unilever to level strategic and influencing skills up and develop as a seasoned global finance professional. This role offers a highly sought-after experience and perfect grooming ground for a high caliber and promising candidate who can be groomed for senior leadership positions in Unilever.

GDT and GBS are the Productive engine for Unilever with the mission of driving centralized and digitized operations for Unilever in not-so-distant Digital Future. GDT and GBS delivers technology and enterprise services to Unilever to improve the effectiveness of our employees, driving efficiency & generating sustainable growth for Unilever. We spend €1.5b in operating cost and invest €0.3b in Capex to provide the services. 

The Finance Manager FET role is a key role in driving the performance management agenda on key initiatives related to People cost. This role is responsible for end-to-end cost and budget control process, including tracking, monitoring and intervening to deliver improved business performance in the areas of People Cost including contractors/ contingency labour; Insourcing, location strategy and Productivity initiatives and organization changes. 

Key Responsibilities:

•    End to end management of People costs spend of €300m from budgets, forecasts and actuals tracking perspective. 
•    Lead Annual Budgeting, monthly Forecasting and Actual cost analysis for People cost. 
•    Variance analysis reporting compared to budgets, forecasts for people costs. 
•    Drive cost transparency, process simplification and automations
•    Partner and collaborate with HR on people costs and workforce plan
•    Build powerful insights using Power BI Dashboards, data and analytics.
•    Productivity exits tracking and reporting. 
•    Lead and drive people costs conversations with senior stakeholders.
•    Lead and deliver in-year target for People cost.

Educational Qualifications:

•    Qualified CA, CIMA, ACCA, MBA or equivalent with 8+ years of experience

Key Interfaces:

The role will interface with the following stakeholders:
•    CFO and VP Finance GDT and GBS 
•    Heads (VP’s) of Service Lines 
•    HR Leads of GDT and GBS 
•    Corporate FET 

Leadership Behaviors and Experience:
•    Decision Support - business cases, financial rigor, governance 
•    Ability to hold others, and self-accountable.
•    Strong planning skills, or a strong attitude to planning (foresight, accuracy, attention to detail) 
•    Strong analytical skills, Excel modelling skills and attention to detail
•    Strong engagement, presentation and communication skills
•    Ability to work with a diverse virtual team
•    Ability to build relationships with people across a broad and diverse geographic and business environment. 
•    Strong experience in driving process simplification and improvements
•    Understanding of Financial and Management Accounts

Skills:

•    Must work well with a wide range of global and country stakeholders 
•    Must be very strong in senior stakeholder management 
•    Ability to innovate and create out of box solutions 
•    Must be excellent at taking initiatives 
•    Highly proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
•    Well-developed communication skills 
•    Exceptional in responding and delivering under pressure
•    Extraordinary in analysis with seasoned presentation skills