Assistant Manager - Process Controls

Job Title - Assistant Manager - Process Controls

Location - Bengaluru

ABOUT UNILEVER:

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we ll work to help you become a better you.

ABOUT UNIOPS:

Business Context
Unilever is the global company with the purpose to make sustainable living commonplace, building powerhouse brands such as Lifebuoy, Dove, Persil, Flora and PG Tips. The Unilever Compass: Purpose-Led, Future-Fit is our new, single growth strategy based on three beliefs; Brands with purpose grow, Companies with purpose last, People with purpose thrive. UniOps is a global organization delivering technology and enterprise-wide solutions in Unilever. Within UniOps, Finance & Procurement Operations (F&P Ops) provides financial services across Unilever such as Record to Report (R2R), Procure to Pay (P2P), Supply Chain Finance Services (SCFS) and Controls Services (CSC), Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) and Treasury, Parent & Holding Controls (TRC).

Main Purpose of the Job
CSC draws its mandate from Global Financial Controls Framework (GFCF) which is applicable to all countries and units in Unilever. CSC provides central monitoring and reporting for financial controls in Unilever. It reports control health indicators (CHI) on 90+ countries, across four global processes - Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report and Make to Deliver. CSC is a one-of-a-kind capability created in Unilever, which has been emulated by other companies. It has evolved over last few years as a best in class, futuristic, real time financial controls monitoring capability. CSC publishes reports from SAP, for each financial control to monitor how the countries/units are performing. Exceptions are identified and analysed. Monthly governance is run with the country Finance Controllers, and action plans obtained for remediation. Rigorous follow up is made to ensure action plans are completed in time, and control exceptions are brought down. CSC is divided into a process and country matrix. This role is responsible for one of the processes (RTR/PTP/OTC/MTD), and front face as CSC Service Delivery Lead for the market clusters of Unilever. Also, responsible for publishing automated controls compliance for the respective processes. This role reports into the Senior Manager/ Manager CSC.

Main Accountabilities
Specific deliverables of this role include, but are not limited to : Controls monitoring and reporting for Process controls.

• Perform accuracy & completeness validation of monthly VAR reports as part of MEC activities.

• Analysis of data in the Controls Cockpit to identify outliers, significant patterns, trends, anomalies.

• Drive Control Health Meetings with Controllers, flag outliers, drive PEC and country to close these outliers within reasonable time.

• Take full ownership of cluster and process assigned, flagging outliers with no progress, that needs attention.

• Issuance of the Monthly Controls Cockpit usage report with accuracy and completeness, within timelines.

Active contribution to develop digital agenda in controls monitoring.

• Explore and pursue automation opportunities in the current model of control monitoring with support from reporting manager.

• Identify & support development and go-live of new reports enhancing the robustness of controls environment. Interacting with multiple stake holders like Group Chief Accountant Department (GCAD), Process Excellence, IT and D&A teams.

Drive best in class Service Delivery for assigned clusters.

• Manage effective service delivery on controls reporting and monitoring for the clusters, creating exceptional user experience in stakeholder community.

• Establishing connect with Controllers team to deep dive into reports, provide insights, leverage UniOps network to propose structural solutions for business challenges and drive accountability.

Key Interfaces

• Group Chief Accountant Department

• Country Finance Controllers/Teams

• Process Owners

• Control Owners

• Operating Centres

• IT teams

Critical success Factors for the Job
Key Skills

• Strong knowledge of business processes (RTR/PTP/OTC/MTD)

• Analytics & controls mindset

• Strong business acumen

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills

• Customer and service centricity

• Solution oriented

• Ability to work under pressure.

• Analytical skills

Relevant Experience

• CA/MBA with 2- 4 years of Finance experience in Unilever or at least one other global organization in similar industry

• Strong experience in control assurance, accounting/ finance role, internal audit, project management, process excellence

• Experience and cultural awareness to work with a geographically, culturally diverse and global team.

DESIRABLE:

• Business Partnering role experience.

• Technology understanding SAP, GRC Hana

• Analytical and Visualization tools like Power BI, Tableau, ACL, SQL

Leadership Behaviours
Personal mastery and passion for high performance coupled with Agility and Consumer love.