Finance Distributioon Lead at Unilever

To provide business partnering support to the warehouse and distribution (W&D) and supply chain indirect (SCI) terms, ensure timely close of month reports and reporting as well as provide insightful analysis performance and KPIs.

Job Summary

Warehousing & Distribution/ Supply Chain Indirects Business partnering

• Analyse and understand monthly W& D and SCI spend
• Provide timely reporting and analysis of monthly results to W&D and SCI teams
• Monitor KPIs and highlight areas of concern or cost reduction opportunities (VIPs)

Monthly Results

• Support the W&D and SCI teams with their monthly accrual process through analysis of OTM tool and continually identifying opportunities to improve accuracy in the transport management tool.
• Ensure accurate and complete capture of monthly W& D/ SCI costs
• Sign off on balance sheets reconciliations completed by CG monthly and ensure balance sheet control for W&D and SCI spend accounts.

Forecasting

• Continuous improvement on forecasting for transport and warehousing via support to ensure that W&D SC teams have good forecast process in place
• Maintain monthly SCI forecasting process and improve forecast accuracy
• Maintain SAP quarterly operating planning process within SAP for W&D and SCI.

Cost Saving

• Support W&D teams in identifying cost saving initiatives such as lane efficiency analysis
• Review annual spend and identify opportunities for improvement
• Provide detail financial calculations for actuals and forecasts of W&D savings projects
• Finance lead for distribution cost saving projects
• Liaise with local teams to ensure that savings projects are on track per project management schedule.

Key Requirements

• Bachelors of Commerce or business-related degree
• Must be a CPA(K)/ ACCA holder
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong team commitment and result driven orientation
• 2-3yrs experience in Finance (Costing experience preferred)