Job Title: Finance Analyst – Home Care Cost Control

Location: UniOps Bangalore

Home Care Business Group is €12 billion business. The BG is on a strategic journey to drive clean future by disrupting and transforming the cleaning industry from highly chemical dependents to green and sustainable cleaning, through innovation and premiumization. In parallel the Business Group priority is to step up profitability through net productivity (SC/BMI/Overheads), network transformation, concertation and premiumization together with selective portfolio rationalization. 

We are the emerging markets leader with No 1 or 2 position in our top countries. We have 3 key categories. Fabric Cleaning, Fabric Enhancers, Home and Hygiene. With the compass organization landing, Business Groups are now operating as an independent business within Unilever with full end to end P&L responsibility, a great opportunity to define and drive performance management and impact business decisions. 

The Global Home Care Finance team partners our global cross-functional business teams and other local finance teams to set and implement strategy, drive performance and ensure value generation in almost 100 markets that we operate in. We are known to be a high-performing, diverse and inclusive team: our members come from different backgrounds, hold ~15+ nationalities and together we speak more than 20 languages.  We have a strong learning culture and have high standards for our work. We work hard, learn well, have fun and watch out for each other.

Based in Bangalore and reporting to the Home Care Innovation Finance Manager, the role of the Finance Analyst is to help land the global Home Care CIP (Marketing and Research & Development (R&D) overheads and BMI spend) in line with budget.

The role provides a strong foundation for candidates to develop cost controlling expertise and business partnering skills.

Key Responsibilities

Monthly reporting and forecasting cycle of CIP (category innovation) and R&D spend

Prepare monthly forecast submission based on Easybudget input and historical phasing

Track in-month actual spend against forecast and follow-up with teams on biggest gaps

Prepare and share monthly spend report with global Home Care teams based in UK

Process requests for accruals, reclassification and intercompany invoicing

Lead quarterly GRIR (Goods Receipt and Inspection Report) clearing and November hard close

EasyBudget management (Excel-based budget tool)

Manage user access & communication

Support teams in creating projects and requesting internal orders

Support teams in reflecting budget at project level

Ensure all spend is allocated to projects (agency fees, prepayment schedule, reclass/accruals)

Reflect forecast of agency fees (provided by central Finance Excellence Team - FET), prepayments and manual reclass

Support on ad-hoc topics

Annual budget setting, including statistical cost allocation to country teams

Project cost benchmarking

Ad-hoc analytics

Masterdata governance

Cost Center creation support

Cost Allocation (FCCR) Process – ICC (Int Cost Centre) & CC (cost centre) Annual Review

Key Interactions

Budget Holders

Functions: Marketing, R&D, Legal, Digital/Media/Commerce, strategy, communications. Seniority: analyst to director

Clearly communicate budgets to marketing and central Home Care team and ensure delivery is in line with targets.

Global Home Care Finance

Support Home Care category finance manager and R&D finance manager in landing CIP marketing spend in line with budget

Global FET

Work with Global FET Cost Control team to deliver overheads and BMI budget

Work together to develop future fit reporting and analysis required for the BG.

High degree of flexibility and ability to quickly understand new topics 

Ability to work fluidly with data and across systems. 

Strong analytical skills, and accounting and data accuracy skills. 

Excellent attention to detail. 

Strong prioritisation skills. 

Strength in holding others accountable, particularly peers and mid-level leadership. 

Courage to drive change 

Advanced Excel skills

Qualifications

Qualified accountant or equivalent. 

Previous experience in reporting or controlling Finance roles

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion 

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.