B&w Finance Business Partner

**JOB TITLE** B&W Finance Business Partner

**LOCATION** 100VE

**JOB PURPOSE**

Unilever’s Beauty and Wellbeing business now delivers more than €10bn Turnover. And our ambition is to be the world’s leading Beauty and Wellbeing business, helping people to look great and feel great, while reducing our environmental impact and crafting the industry’s most desirable brands. We will do this through development of a business model that allows us to build stronger brands, improving our gross margins in order to increase investment. At Unilever, Finance is about so much more than numbers. It’s the lifeblood of our business - touching every area, informing multi-million-euro decisions and directly influencing the development, growth and health of our brands, and through them our vision to build a better business and a better world.

Your influence will directly determine the future of our brands and our whole business.

As a Senior Financial Analyst (SFA), you will partner with the business to ensure growth and to enable them to meet their financial goals, actively lead efforts to find opportunities and implement solutions to improve the financial performance of the business.

By providing an integrated financial perspective on the impact of business decisions, the SFA makes recommendations and influences decisions that maximize value for the business.

**You love to win and have fun doing it**: Models success and fulfillment, achieves satisfaction by helping others to continue developing their skills.

**You are a change maker**: Given the rapid pace of change in our portfolio, the SFA needs to partner with brand to inspire change in the way we lead the business and to ensure we grow in a profitable, sustainable way.

**You are a culture & change champion**: Extraordinary interpersonal skills and the ability to build collaborative relationships with multiple and diverse stakeholders.

The role will business partner at least 1 Global Brand and extended teams across the BG. It will be an “agile” member of the relevant brand Community (attending when relevant) and at times may have to stretch across to other brands and projects within

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

Innovation
- Development & leadership of business cases for global innovations, in collaboration with the FET, global brand teams, the regional counterparts as well as the R&D and CMI communities
- Drive post-launch interventions
- Drive Margin Accretive Innovation as part of category innovation process and may also lead for the 5S programme
- Support the FET to influence at the key decision gates of innovation business cases and lead for global innovation business cases

Budgeting
- Drive better decision making around resource allocation and budget setting. Support on prioritisation and activation of a ZBB (Zero Based Budgeting) mind-set within the Category and Brand. Driving accountability within the teams and the right service level support from the FET.

Cross Category
- Lead various cross-category projects across categories, aimed at stepping up finance capabilities, such as Sustainability Finance, Digital ROMI, etc.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional business partners
- Involvement with special projects related to business development, strategic growth, and ad hoc analysis.
- Contribute to our culture of being collaborative, respectful, transparent, ethical, and efficient.

**ALL ABOUT YOU**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; MBA or CPA strongly preferred
- Minimum of three years of related financial planning and analysis experience with increasing responsibility and control
- Prior work experience in Brand, Supply Chain, Customer Development (Sales), Audit, Accounting, Financial Reporting, or Financial Planning is preferred
- An enterprising and inquisitive nature that can find solutions to complex problems
- Experience creating and implementing operational improvement solutions
- Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills to clearly communicate results and implications of analysis
- Experience communicating financial acumen effectively with all levels of the organization
- Enjoys working in a collaborative team environment

**NOTES**

**About Unilever**

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’

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