Finance Officer

Unilever; Uttarakhand; On-site; INR 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever in Haridwar is seeking a Finance Officer to strengthen financial controls, drive MIS reporting, and govern procure-to-pay processes in a fast-moving manufacturing environment.

You will work with manufacturing and leadership to optimize costs, support month-end closings, asset management, and ensure compliance with SAP-based finance workflows, enabling accurate reporting and governance.

Qualifications

• Experience in implementing financial controls and governance aligned to corporate policy and audits.
• Proficient in factory MIS reporting and cost variance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Execute and monitor key financial controls per policy and audit requirements.
• Prepare factory MIS reports and analyze cost performance.
• Oversee end-to-end Procure-to-Pay governance and timely payments.
• Partner with manufacturing to improve operational efficiency and close monthly books.

Job description

Job Details

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

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