B&W Finance Business Partner UK / I

Unilever; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer goods company seeks a Finance Business Partner for its Beauty & Wellbeing unit in Camden Town. The role involves financial planning, analysis, and close collaboration with stakeholders. Candidates should have at least 3 years in finance roles and possess strong business acumen. If you're ready to contribute to significant growth in the beauty industry, we encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in financial or operational roles.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Self-confident leadership with immediate impact on stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to achieve strategic objectives.
• Provide analysis and support for decision-making.
• Deliver actuals and find opportunities to meet targets.

Skills

Business acumen

Influencing skills

Leadership

Flexibility

Job description

Overview

There are 3 sizeable BG Led markets for B&W in EU: UK/I, Netherlands and Italy (o/w UK/I is the biggest). The B&W Finance Business Partner UK/I will be the first point of contact for B&W BU with regards to performance, financial planning, and finance business partnering for the UK/I. This is a high exposure role with an emphasis on excellent financial basics and collaborating closely with the B&W EU & UKI Finance lead and other BULT members. This is a major opportunity to cement a reputation as a high performing business partner who is able to provide great analysis, clear partnering & decision support, and is ready to take the next level to become a manager.

Responsibilities

• Partner the B&W UK/I CSP, Marketing, and other stakeholders to achieve strategic and operational objectives


• Provide in depth analysis and decision-making support - influencing senior stakeholders to deliver results, mitigate risks and unlock opportunities for growth.


• Deliver actuals, understand the building blocks of the FC, and support on finding opportunities whilst mitigating risks to deliver in-year targets


• Supporting key stakeholder forums including monthly S&OP, quarterly business reviews, and IBP.


• Develop corrective actions on major performance interventions if needed, such as pricing and promotional resets or BMI trade-offs.


• Innovation partnering - ensure strong commercial decisions are made for sizable business cases


• Business partner monthly cash up process with CSP & Demand planners, as well as manage and coordinate monthly financial submissions


• Work with B&W EU & UKI finance lead on long term strategic thinking and 3 year plans for UK/I


• Support brand investment strategy and control BMI budgets

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience of thriving in a fast paced, results-oriented environment requiring a high degree of flexibility


• Fostering a strong network and building connections with cross functional teams from across various countries


• 3+ years of experience in financial, operational roles. Relevant business partnering experience within BG/BU, National teams and/or SC Finance roles is preferred.


• Beauty Quotient: the candidate must have an appreciation for Beauty and be able to truly adopt and role model the "Beauty Culture" we would want to build (humble yet rebellious, agile, entrepreneurial, energetic and fun).


• Business acumen and is biased towards actions that have the most tangible and significant impact.


• Ability to work under time pressure and ability to dynamically prioritise the workload


• Ability to understand complex dependencies and drive simplification


• Self-confident leadership with an ability to make an immediate impact with stakeholders


• Influencing skills to drive business outcomes in a collaborative working manner


• Able to be independent, proactive and lead to achieve challenging results

Company Context & Brand Background

Key UL Behaviours

• 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.


• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Beauty & Wellbeing is one of the 5 Business Groups (BG) for Unilever with 20% of TO and 25% of Profit contribution to Unilever. Beauty is a 285+ B Eu market with 5-6% growth. So the opportunities are immense. We believe in Positive Beauty and Healthy Lifestyle across all our Beauty & Wellbeing brands. Within our newly created Business Unit, we want to make the shift from being a challenger to one of the market leaders when it comes to beauty. The exciting journey to growth will have it's share of challenges. We intend to stay focused on premiumization, make sharp choices on demand spaces, win in our key citadel geographies, build disproportionate digital and social influencer marketing & beauty capabilities and grow in disruptive channels (Dcom, Health & Beauty). These bold ambitions require a start up mentality, working agile and a true owner's mindset, building a beauty culture from within. We have the strength of some amazing Brands (Simple, Tresemme, Vaseline, Shea, Dove) within the BU and look forward to talent like you joining our team to make this journey a memorable one!