Finance Lead HC Arabia

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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Finance lead for HC Arabia
• End-to-end P&L responsibility while driving performance against targets
• Business partnering HC Arabia LT
• Ensuring in-year plans are aligned with long term strategy, delivering profitable growth
• Drive actions on performance interventions if needed, in any P&L line.
• Decision support on trade-offs, investment decisions, channel/country/category mix
• Continuous focus on profitability improvement initiatives
• Drive long term strategy, ensure landing strategy into action.
• Support the overall performance management agenda, working closely with HC PTAB team.
• Prepare and present key financial insights to senior management
• Manage and nurture relationships with key partners and stakeholders in UL Arabia
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and development opportunities to team members.

Key Stakeholders

• HC Arabia Business Lead
• HC PTAB BU CFO and GM
• HC Arabia CSP and SC Leads
• Local Arabia Finance FLT

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• 5 years+ experience in Senior Business Partnering experience within FMCG
• Strong financial fundamentals along with solid business partnering skills.
• End-to-end P&L understanding
• Strong engagement, presentation, and communication skills
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to make the complex simple.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• Passion for High Performance: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• Personal Mastery: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
• Consumer Love: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• Purpose and Service: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• Agility: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Unilever 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.