Unilever Ethiopia

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: June, 24/2023 

We are looking for a Supply Chain Finance Business Partner to provide Supply Chain end-to-end decision support and financial expertise to the Make & Go to Market teams to drive the achievement of long-term competitive costs, quality and service levels. The position is responsible for leading forecasting, reporting, Capex investments analysis, sourcing, savings, reporting and cost management activities under the Supply Chain umbrella. The job will provide a great opportunity to demonstrate ownership of the costs and profitability agenda; risk and controls framework working with diverse stakeholders within & outside of the organization. Some of the key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Strategic Agenda: Provide strategic financial leadership to the Supply Chain team in developing long term sourcing strategy, dynamic sourcing changes, resiliency programs, best-in-class costing to build significant competitive advantage for the business. Ownership for providing sound accounting and financial processes which seamlessly support the Supply Chain business objectives, strategies and organizational structure.

• Performance Management: Actively contributing to driving profitability, managing risks and challenging the business teams, managing costs & profit drivers across Supply Chain; reviewing actuals vs forecasts and flagging issues to promote accountability and sending early warning signals to drive opportunities & mitigate risks. Lead on the development and use of data analytics to drive insights with a key focus on costs.

• Product cost: Lead analysis and understand the impact of commodities price movement, and exchange rates to the cost and margin. Work closely with Procurement, Production & GTM teams on Purchase price review and analysis, understand the drivers of the cost movement, perform cost benchmarking and drive accountability on delivery of mitigating actions.

• Cost Savings: Influence cost conscious culture into all cross functional teams, provide full visibility into cost-to-serve and best in class benchmarking and work closely with all business teams (Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Development) on new project, eg: new sourcing, alternative sourcing, cost saving project, Capex investment, new business flow, etc). Drive business case reviews, analysis of the cost and profitability, understanding of each component of the cost, challenging the price and cost necessarily.

• Controls, Risk Management & oversight: Drive the embedding of key controls within Supply Chain to eliminate wastage and leakages by driving process documentation and regular review and monitoring to identify potential control risks and recommending corrective actions.

• Innovation & Capex: Lead innovation partnering process, including analysis of new business opportunities and Projects via business case preparation, strategize profitable business models, financial flow modelling, recommend best cost to serve model and risk mitigation. Drive development of financial framework to track post launch evaluation, make recommendation to delivery better KPIs. Design framework to track capex invested.

• Supply Chain Finance capabilities: Lead the development of new digital capabilities & analytical capabilities giving the Supply Chain team tools to operate with high levels of efficiency & effectiveness. Determine and implement the systems, processes and analysis that provides the cross functional teams with consistent and comparable operational and financial data visibility.

• Finance agenda & People Development: Drive performance management, career planning, development planning and succession planning for team and self. Lead & drive the learning agenda within Supply Chain Finance, ensure the teams are well motivated, energized and upskilled to be a highly effective team supporting a fast paced and growing business.

Job Requirement

Essential

• Professional qualification in accounting e.g. ACCA, CIMA, CIA, CPA etc

• Overall 8-10 years working experience in Finance and preferably experience in various roles covering business controls, Business Partnering, Procurement, Financial analysis, Risk Management and Compliance.

• In-depth knowledge of operational & Financial processes including but not limited to costing and transfer pricing, Financial Accounting, capex management & Master data management

• Commercial Support & Decision support through preparation of financial models & ROI Analysis

• Strong analytical capabilities with bias to drive action

• Ability to identify existing and potential risks and development of mitigation plans.

• Advanced Microsoft office skills, SAP & BW operational knowledge

• Knowledge on reporting tools like Power BI

Preferred:

• Strong interpersonal & communication skills;

• Mature and highly credible individual with strong business & financial acumen

• Self-confident integrity and objectivity/independence of judgement.

• Flexible & comfortable working in a fast-paced matrix organization

• Diligent & willing to be hands on

• Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook & clear focus

• Objectivity and integrity in the face of challenge while demonstrating courage & personal resilience

• Talent catalyst who can proactively drive the people development agenda

Key Interactions

• Ethiopia Country Supply Chain Leadership Team

• Ethiopia Divisional Leads

• EA Supply Chain Leadership Team

• East Africa Finance Director

• East Africa Finance Leadership Team

• Supply Chain Finance Director Africa

• Head of Finance Excellence Team EA

How to Apply

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