Industrial Finance Manager (m/w/d)

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Hello, Unilever here! We are a leading international consumer goods manufacturer. Our nutrition, personal care, detergents and cleaning agent products are used day in, day out by around 2.5 billion people in over 190 countries. These include AXE, Dove, Ben & Jerry's and many more. 

Our factory in Mannheim is an innovative production site in Germany. In this modern chemical manufacturing plant, we’re producing Dove Bars globally.

Currently we are looking for a permanent employment

Industrial Finance Manager (m/w/d) – Mannheim

Background:

The Industrial Finance Manager is member of Site Leadership Team, participates in all relevant discussions and decisions related with the site. Mannheim Leadership Team offers a very open atmosphere making it a very good role to anyone interested in making impact.

The Mannheim IFM is responsible for providing financial business partnering & controllership to the site. Responsible for in-year performance and site strategic development together with the site leadership team.  Providing decision making support, WCM Cost Deployment leadership & resulting savings delivery.

The role is accountable for keeping compliance of the site to the Unilever control framework. The IFM role is powered by Country Make Expertise Team (MET) and shared services teams (SCFS, OC, IBM) on main accounting, controlling, and reporting tasks.

The role reports to the Europe PC Make Network Lead.

Main Responsibilities

• Member of Site Leadership Team

• Master Plan and Budget Planning development

• Drive Performance management through Weekly Cost Governance and monthly cycle

• Month End/Controlling Activities

• Business partnering Site Leadership Team – Operations Managers & Site Services Manager

• Responsible for delivery of in year financial performance (cost/waste/capex), final creation and submission of site forecast & annual business plan

• Responsible to ensure site on-ground controls are executed

• Co-creates and co-drives savings agenda with operations and uses available industrial tools as support (WCM foundation, ZBB, benchmarking)

• Supports ABC process

• Support decision making for strategic projects

• Cost Deployment

• Benchmarking: Mannheim factory is part of global network and SU controller works directly with global team on benchmark exercise to find efficiencies, optimize cost and keep the site competitive.

Interactions

• Europe Finance Controlling

• Germany SU controller community

Knowledge and Skills Required

• Finance Qualification Equivalent to CIMA /business degree, fluent in English

• 3-5 years’ experience, highly valued experiences in SC and country finance roles. 

• Strong business acumen has a natural passion for operations design and business results. Is biased towards actions that have the most tangible and significant impact to the business.

• High level of flexibility to see the big picture but at the same time courage to deep-dive into specific areas if need arises

• Always on curiosity to continuously peel the Onion

• Deep understanding of Unilever P&L and has experience with the relevant controlling processes.

• Ability to present effectively to senior leaders in the organization and to flex the communication style depending on the audience.

• Power BI (preferable)

• German language (preferable)

What we have to offer: 

• A Competitive base salary & additional financial benefits  

• A Company pension scheme 

• A wide range of training opportunities and a 24/7 access to our learning platform   

• A variety of wellbeing offers e.g. company medical care & health management, wellbeing trainings, 24/7 employee advisory service 

• Employee discounts at our cooperation partners   

• An exciting role within a great and global team in a fast paced, multinational company 

• Working for a global player 

HOW TO APPLY:
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Melanie Brauner (HR.DACH@unilever.com). 

We will unfortunately not be able to consider any incomplete applications. 

*E-mail applications will not be processed!

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