SC Finance Manager Bachelor Degree Job

JOB PURPOSE

Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. The SC Finance Production Manager will partner with the local SC, procurement, and category finance team to execute the Supply Chain Finance operational and Strategic plan for EWA which should enable the business to win and grow.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE:


Drive a cost competitive Supply Chain organisation through Sourcing Unit cost optimization
Drive delivery of controllable costs by reducing the Cost Per Ton (Net Productivity)
Deliver the business waste reduction programme for Ghana Production sites
Review, challenge and monitor all Capital Expenditure proposals (CEP) per the annual budget.
Drive Ops to deliver the R/ton expectations across Ghana Factory and the savings on Production Indirects.
Drive alignment of benchmark costs and efficiencies across Sourcing Units.


SteerBusiness Performance and provide Decision support


Provide accurate and relevant business insights by analysing available info using designated best practice tools
Drive and Coordinate the forecasting process to help the business make reliable decisions, includes budget, financial forecasts, etc
Drive optimal return on investments by driving focus on Capital Expenditure Proposals with Business Cases that meet the required benchmarks
Guide and support the delivery ofkey projects in the pipeline, whilst actively ensuring that all appropriate government incentives are maximised on.
Report on monthly variances giving key insight in what areas need focus and where factory performance was not great.
Ensure variance analysis on major stock losses as well as usage variances.


Drive a cost competitive Supply Chain organisation through Sourcing Unit cost optimization


Drive delivery of controllable costs by reducing the Cost Per Ton (Net Productivity)
Deliver the business waste reduction programme for Ghana Production sites
Review, challenge and monitor all Capital Expenditure proposals (CEP) per the annual budget.
Drive Ops to deliver the R/ton expectations across Ghana Factory and the savings on Production Indirect.
Drive alignment of benchmark costs and efficiencies across Sourcing Units.


Ensure robust governance and control systems are implemented, maintained and adhered to.


Ensure adequate controls and financial hygiene of all areas in Supply Chain, including managing reviews and interaction with auditors during +5 audits during a year.
Ensure integrity of balance sheet and income statement with appropriate levels of checks and balances.
Drive delivery of timely and accurate reporting requirements
Ensure Unilever Standard Chart of Accounts compliance
Ensure stock controls compliant with SOX
Ensure journals, write offs and provisions are done in accordance with Schedule of Authority.


Manage Production budgets and stock flows and balances.


Ensure annual budgets done and standard product costing aligned to global product costing guidelines for Unilever factories.
Ensure master data information is updated correctly for products sourced from 3P/ Collaborative Manufacturing sites
Variance analysis of budget/forecast over and under spends done monthly.
Drive stock take process and variance analysis of waste.
Ensure SAP stock errors are understood and corrected.
Drive cost reductions in order to meet R/ton targets.
Drive stock days on hand down through analysis and reporting.
Manage stock in various locations on site and off site at third parties.
Provide financial business cases for different options of sourcing.


Ensure material usage variance analysis is happening and be able to report on variances for the month

Landing Productivity

A key success criterion for the role is to ensure that productivity is landed. This includes:


Recruitment: Recruiting and nurturing the team directly reporting to the role (if needed)
Communication: Communicating clearly with stakeholders what finance will and will not do as part of new operating model
Training & Handover: For activities being transferred to business, ensure that the knowledge transfer is adequately done to the business partners.
Simplification: Identifying activities that represent complexity or excessive business partnering
Reporting: Reduce ad hoc reporting and support standardisation of reports. This will be very important deliverable for the SCF manager and will require liaison with other SCF leads within 1 UL markets to develop standard reports that serve most of the performance management and decision support needs.


Experiences & Qualifications & Skills

Professional qualification in accountancy – CA or CIMA (or other finance professional qualification) preferably or nearing completion of professional qualification.


Min 3-5 years Experience at Factory Supply Chain Finance
Min 3-5 years at Management and managing people
Ability to steer conversations and influence
Leadership skills – able to lead, motivate, inspire
Previous experience in SAP (3 years).
Proficient in Microsoft Excel.
Proven track record of being effective in a complex operating environment and driving business performance
Strong communication and influencing skills
Objectivity and integrity in the face of challenge; courage and personal resilience
Ability to build networks and manage multiple senior stakeholders
Understanding or ability to quickly grasp financial principles in the end-to-end Supply Chain, identify and drive relevant value-creating choices and decisions
Leadership of change – the ability to drive change management initiatives, staying close to best practices and relevant external developments


Leadership


You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.


Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

While all SOLs are important, but the ones stated below are critical to the success within this role


BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.
PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.

Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies.
Look in your fridge, or on the bathroom shelf, and you're bound to see one of our well-known brands. We create, market and distribute the ... read moreproducts that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh.
People's lives are changing fast. As the way we all live and work evolves, our needs and tastes change too. At Unilever we aim to help people in their daily lives. So we keep developing new products, improving tried and tested brands and promoting better, more efficient ways of working.
We have a portfolio of brands that are popular across the country. Popular because of our two key strengths:
Strong roots in local markets and first-hand knowledge of the local culture.
World-class business expertise applied internationally to serve consumers everywhere.
Focusing on performance and productivity, we encourage our people to develop new ideas and put fresh approaches into practice. Hand in hand with this is a strong sense of responsibility to the communities we serve. We don't only measure success in financial terms; how we achieve results is important too. We work hard to conduct our business with integrity - respecting our employees, our consumers and the environment around us.
Unilever is proudly one of the country's leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods in all our three divisions - Foods, home care and personal care.
Foods
We are the largest seller of packet tea with our Lipton brand leading the Foods and Beverages category.
We are the category leader in margarine in the country with the Blueband brand.
In savoury, our Royco and Knorr brands are household names you can't ignore.
Home & personal care
We are highly visible in the home care market in the country, which includes cleansing and hygiene products.
Our home care products, Omo and Sunlight are household names synonymous with home care.
Within the personal care market, we are very visible with brands like Lux and Pears to help you look and feel good.