KSA CD Finance – Financial Analyst

About Unilever

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

CD Finance introduction

CD Finance is a business partnering job to CD (customer development) and CSP (customer strategy and planning) teams focusing on Top line planning, Trade spend management, month end closing activities and results analysis, dealing with key partners are the CD country and channel heads, regional sales managers, key account managers, CSP, also working closely with Cash & collection team and financial controllers.

Job Purpose

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are passionate about end-to-end value creation within our customer value chain and positively contribute towards the business, then the role is just for you.

Business Partnering

WHAT WILL BE YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Business partnering with the customer development key account managers to drive business performance
• Active management of trade marketing investment budgets
• Investigation of variances between plans and actual spends
• Periodic Trade marketing investment (TMI) Reviews and controls to ensure timely claims raising and effective budget management
• Ownership of month-end TTS closing processes, analysis and commentary on variances
• Tracking actual payments against customer contracts
• Evaluation of TMI/ Promotional spend effectiveness (PROMO ROI measurement)
• Customer reconciliation tracking with Cash and collection team ensuring that it gets signed off regularly.
  
  

What You Need To Succeed

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or accounting is a must.
• 0 - 2 years of financial experience or similar positions, preferably in FMCG sector
• Microsoft office basics is mandatory, Advanced level is preferred.
  
  

Skills

• Good communication and analytical skills.
• Decision support & Influencing
• Passion for growth
• Team commitment
• Process design and automation.
• Presentation Skills.
• SAP / Power BI knowledge.
• Working independently with high levels of integrity and discipline.
  
  

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.
  

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.

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.