Finance Officer

Unilever; Haridwar; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever in Haridwar is seeking a Finance Officer to oversee financial controls, MIS reporting, and P2P governance within the manufacturing finance function. The role involves supporting month-end close, cost analysis, and collaboration with manufacturing leadership.

The candidate will help drive efficiency, ensure compliance with SAP-based processes, and contribute to capex tracking and asset management activities as part of governance and control initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in applying financial controls in manufacturing or corporate finance settings.
• Ability to prepare factory MIS reports and cost performance analyses.
• Proficiency with P2P processes, approvals, and invoicing controls.

Responsibilities

• Execute and monitor key financial controls in line with policy, pace requirements, and governance standards.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly factory MIS reports and analyze cost performance against budget and forecast.
• Monitor end-to-end P2P compliance including PR, PO, GRR, invoices, and payments; track open POs and aged transactions.
• Support month-end closing activities, track costs, provisions, accruals, and inventory adjustments; ensure SAP transaction accuracy.
• Monitor asset capitalization processes, CWIP aging, and capex project tracking; ensure asset tagging compliance.

Skills

Financial controls

MIS reporting

P2P governance

Cost analysis

SAP

Tools

SAP

Job description

Business Title: Finance Officer | Location: Haridwar

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Controls & Stewardship

• Execute and monitor key financial controls in line with HUL policies, PACE requirements, and governance standards.
• Support control testing, compliance reviews, corporate audit requirements, and closure of audit observations.
• Monitor inventory, asset, CWIP, capitalization, and physical verification controls.
• Ensure compliance with SOA, statutory requirements, and internal control frameworks.

2. Management Information System (MIS) & Analytics

• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly factory MIS reports.
• Analyse factory cost performance, support variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year performance.
• Provide actionable insights to manufacturing and leadership teams.
• Support digitalization and automation initiatives for finance reporting.

3. Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Governance

• Monitor end-to-end P2P compliance covering PR, PO, GRR, invoice processing, and payment cycles.
• Track open POs, blocked invoices, pending GRRs, and aged transactions.
• Support Employees & manual payment approvals and statutory payments as per policy.
• Ensure timely recovery accounting, employee advance settlements, and WBS-related transactions

4. Month-End Closing (MEC) Accounting & Business Partnering

• Track factory make cost (BFU), utilities, job work, manpower, repairs, and discretionary expenditures.
• Support preparation of annual budgets, forecasts, and monthly outlooks.
• Identify cost‑saving opportunities and support productivity initiatives.
• Partner with manufacturing teams to improve operational efficiency and reduce waste
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual closing activities.
• Ensure timely booking of provisions, accruals, utility costs, job work costs, and inventory adjustments.
• Ensure accuracy of SAP transactions impacting financial reporting.

6. Asset Management & Capex Governance

• Monitor CWIP ageing and capitalization timelines.
• Support capex project tracking and commissioning documentation.
• Ensure compliance with asset tagging and capitalization procedures.
• Coordinate with engineering teams for asset verification and closure of capex projects

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

“Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion" 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.