Industrial Finance Assistant Manager

Unilever; Philippines; Hybrid; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever in Taguig is seeking an Industrial Finance Senior Assistant Manager – Supply Chain Finance to partner with Supply Chain leaders and drive value across cost and working capital initiatives.

The role focuses on setting budgets, strengthening governance, and leading major factory projects while delivering insights to improve P&L performance and ensure robust financial controls.

Qualifications

• Experience driving P&L performance improvements and closing gaps vs targets.
• Experience presenting to and communicating with senior Finance and non-Finance stakeholders.
• Experience in Accounting and risk awareness around financial controls.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Supply Chain leaders to drive value and close gaps to targets in waste, cost, investment and working capital.
• Drive budget setting, resource allocation decisions, and governance around costs and capital proposals.
• Lead major factory projects such as capacity expansion and transformation as Finance lead.

Skills

P&L optimization

Stakeholder management

Financial controls

Job description

Industrial Finance Senior Assistant Manager – Supply Chain Finance

Location: Bonifacio Corporate Center, Taguig (Hybrid)

Main Job Purpose

• Be a co-pilot to the business, partnering mainly with the Supply Chain function (Sourcing Unit Managers and Manufacturing Executives) to drive value and bring positive impact to business strategy and performance
• Involves developing insights, devising long-term strategic plans, and driving actions with the business to help achieve business targets
• Focuses largely on driving value through supply chain production and factory costs strategies
• Establish controls and governance, ensuring all financials are properly budgeted for, tracked, analyzed and accounted for
• Involves working with and collaboration with the internal finance teams, business partners, and senior leaders across all functions (mainly Supply Chain and Finance)

Business Partnering (55%)

• Review and undertake major performance interventions (where needed) to drive improvements in waste, cost, investment and working capital performance to close gaps to targets
• Support the Factory Leadership team in managing performance
• Drive decision making around resource allocation and budget setting
• Support the Finance Excellence Team to influence at the key decision gates of innovation business cases, capital proposals and sourcing studies
• Make decisions around significant adjustments to carry into the financial forecast

Stewardship / Controls (25%)

• Identify major risks and opportunities in supply chain and factory operations and drive mitigation and opportunistic actions
• Work with partners to devise factory savings opportunities and track, validate and hold partners accountable for actions
• Ensure proper controls and governance surrounding costs, factory fixed assets, stock inventory (verification on site) and material wastes
• Assist with month end activities and ensure proper cost governance

Project Management (20%)

• Finance lead for major factory projects such as capacity expansion and transformation

Key Requirements

• Experience in driving P&L performance improvements (e.g. closing gaps vs. target through driving actions) and holding others accountable for committed actions (particularly peers and senior leadership)
• Experience in presenting to and communicating with senior Finance and non-Finance stakeholders (Business Partners and peers)
• Experience in Accounting and risk awareness around financial controls

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.