Finance Manager Process & Cost Controller

UNILEVER ASIA PRIVATE LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multinational corporation based in Singapore is seeking a finance manager to oversee cost governance and enhance business efficiency within the finance team. The candidate should have 5-7 years of finance experience, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in SAP. The role emphasizes teamwork and collaboration with various global teams to drive financial performance and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of progressive experience in various Finance roles.
• In depth knowledge of Operational / Financial Processes.
• Experience in Business partnering roles.

Responsibilities

• Drive cost governance and overhead agenda.
• Ensure financial records comply with policies and controls.
• Manage month end activities and forecasting.

Skills

Financial Processes Knowledge

Analytical Capabilities

Communication Skills

Advanced Microsoft Office Skills

Tools

SAP

BW

Job description

THE BUSINESS

Unilever International (UI) is an alternative but complimentary route to market, servicing white space opportunities not exploited by local operating countries. Starting operations in 2011, Unilever international today is one of the fast growing and highly profitable Unilever Businesses: Reaching Euro 1 Bil in 2019 with and ambition to double the business within next 5 years. It is a global business unit with 9 hubs (Singapore, US, UK, Korea, India, Dubai, France, the Philippines and Australia) with a diverse range of products, with expertise in utilizing 3rd party distributors and consolidators to reach consumers in over 75 countries.

THE ROLE

An exciting opportunity arises for finance manager role reporting to Financial Controller, who will be driving the UAPL Cost Governance and Global UI Overheads agenda partnering with HR and business teams . This role is also the Business Excellence Lead for UI/UAPL, ensuring we drive greater efficiencies and productivity at scale in all our business processes.

The role is based in Singapore, part of larger and very diverse UI Global Finance Team.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Partnering and Performance Management of UI Global Overheads – Full ownership, Control & Governance
  • Provide visibility of cost types by geography / division
  • Ensure cross charges are aligned with respective entities and executed OTIF
  • Monthly / Annual Forecasting and variance analysis
  • Formulating Overheads Framework to accurately account for costs in respective business units
  • Drive insights and productivity /competitive benchmarking analysis to drive efficiency
• UAPL Shared Service - Annual budgeting for UAPL Shared services costs using ZBB mindset & quarterly budget reviews with cost centre owners
• Business Excellence Lead – drive continuous process improvement in the Process Excellence Leadership Team (PELT) forum. Also ensure proper training and documentation in place (License to Operate) for all processes for ease of knowledge transfer.
• Pension/Insurance – Partner HR rewards on all Finance matters relating to UAPL Pension Scheme.
• Controls: Ensure financial records are in compliance with accepted policies, procedures and external/SOX controls requirements. Ensure robustness of internal controls including clear segregation of duties, disciplined implementation of schedule of authority, robust payment approval/verification process, credit assessment, budgetary system adherence.
• Manage month end activities: Monthly forecasting, Month end review, Analysis, Drive Insights and Actions with focus on: Overheads initiatives as part of the Fuel for Growth Agenda and Efficiency of investments (ROMI)
• Develop close working relationships with the Global UI Finance team and share best practices across the broader UI finance team.
• Digital Analytics : Any other Digital & capability improvements through new process/system implementation of UI finance vision and priorities

**The roles of duties are not exhaustive and may change according to business requirements.**

KEY INTERFACES

• UI Finance Director, Finance Managers and teams based globally.
• UI Leadership team and other functional teams
• HR team
• UniOps and 3P service provider teams based in India and Philippines.
• Digital Capability team

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Essential Experience:

• 5-7 years of progressive experience in various Finance roles.
• In depth knowledge of Operational / Financial Processes: Performance Management
• Experience in one of the Business partnering roles: Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing
• Commercial support and decision support (including preparing financial models and ROI analysis)
• Strong Analytical capabilities with bias to Drive Action.
• Ability to handle large complex data set
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, SAP and BW operational Knowledge

Soft Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Mature and highly credible individual with strong business and financial acumen.
• Flexibility and comfortable working in a fast pace matrix reporting environment.
• Ability to operate independently and in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to earn respect and trust from senior management.
• Self-driven, forward looking, results-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus
• Diligent and willing to be hands, ‘roll up your sleeves’.