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Associate Finance Manager

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Unilever

Associate Finance Manager

Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    This posting represents a number of vacancies based in Englewood Cliffs. These positions are full time and are in one of the below pillars of Finance.

    • Controllers Team: Overheads, Trade Audit, Treasury and Compliance
    • Finance Excellence Team (FET): Analytics, Sales & Ops Planning and Digital Finance
    • Sales (CD) Finance: CD Operations, Retail Partnering, eComm and DTC
    • Business Partnering: Category/Brand Partnerships
    • Supply Chain Finance (SCF): Industrial and Procurement Finance, Logistics

    Background & Purpose of the Job

    At Unilever, we act fast to anticipate consumer needs, fast to translate ideas into new products, and fast to make, distribute and market them. We craft products that people enjoy, trust and use as part of their daily lives. Which is why, as part of Unilever, you could make an impact on a global and local scale. We look for people with different views, ideas, experiences and backgrounds to bring dynamism to the business and, most importantly, an empathy with consumers. It's those individuals working together that make Unilever one of the most successful consumer goods companies in the world. Individuals with the courage to be heard, seize opportunities and take risks. A job at Unilever is a career made by you, with development opportunities, benefits and a working culture that embraces diversity. You can craft your own path as you work with the brands and people that drive our sustainable business growth.

    As an Associate Finance Manager (AFM), you will partner with the business to drive growth and enable them to meet their financial goals. You will actively lead efforts to find opportunities and implement solutions to improve the financial performance of the business.

    Who You Are & What You’ll Do

    The AFM will be aligned with our key business processes and play an integral role on cross-functional teams to set our direction and optimize our business performance. By providing an integrated financial perspective on the impact of business decisions, the AFM 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’re a change maker: Given the rapid pace of change in our portfolio, the AFM 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’re a culture & change champion: Extraordinary interpersonal skills and the ability to build collaborative relationships with multiple and diverse stakeholders.

    Duties & Responsibilities:

    • Serve as a strategic business partner, bringing an understanding of Finance, value creation and business drivers.
    • Supports analytical and business frameworks as well as a quantitative approach to decision-making that shape the overall strategic course of the organization.
    • Focus on operations including but not limited to formulation of pricing strategies, business assessment of new product initiatives, economic evaluation of capital expenditures, competitive analysis and benchmarking, and business process redesign
    • Analyze financial results and key trends, assess current and future business risks, and communicate results to leadership.
    • Implement operational improvement actions in assigned areas in line with development of procedures for required duties.
    • Build and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional business partners to develop annual financial plans and ongoing forecasts for departmental expenses and headcounts.
    • 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.
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  • Qualifications

    What You’ll Need To Succeed

    • MBA in Accounting, Finance, or related field required
    • Minimum of four 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
  • Benefits

    What We Can Offer You

    Culture for Growth | Top Notch Employee Health & Well Being Benefits | Every Voice Matters | Global Reach | Life at Unilever | Careers with Purpose | World Class Career Development Programs | Check Out Our Space | Focus On Sustainability

  • Industry
    Consumer Goods
  • Fun Fact
    Unilever offers seriously cool benefits like flexible working environment, on-site gym and Tigi salon, well-being incentives, and all-you-can-eat ice cream.
  • About Us

    Unilever has a simple but clear purpose – to make sustainable living commonplace. They believe this is the best long-term way for the business to grow. On any given day, two billion people from around the world use Unilever products from iconic brands like Dove, Axe, Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Dollar Shave Club, and Knorr to look good, feel good, and get more out of life.