Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, West Africa at Unilever Nigeria Plc

Unilever Nigeria Plc – Welcome to Unilever, a global multinational and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company with products sold in over 190 countries and more than 2 billion consumers across the world who use our amazing products everyday!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, West Africa

Job ID:  R-77548
Location: Lagos
Work Level:  WL 2
Function: Finance
Reports to: Finance Excellence Team Lead, WA

Finance Excellence Team

• The Finance Excellence Team works above the market (as a regional team)
• We have 3 management entities forming the West Africa business unit (Nigeria, Ghana and Francophone Africa, with base in Cote d’Ivoire).
• The FET is responsible for business performance, budget and forecast across all 3 markets.

Our team purpose:

• To be an agile, tech savvy and trusted business partner
• Leveraging business acumen, data insight and influencing skill to make the right decisions.
• To elevate business performance and business outcomes.

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 FP&A Manager will be a member of the West Africa Finance Excellence Team. As part of FET, the role holder will play a key role in managing the performance of specific P&L lines in the business unit.
• He/ she shall be the ultimate process owner of forecast and performance management of these specified cost buckets and would be a business partner to the leadership team on market performance under the supervision of the FET Head, WA.
• The role holder will also be responsible for consolidated WA reporting for all areas applicable under the consideration he/she will be managing the largest business unit in the region.

What will your Main Responsibilities Be?
Integrated Business plan & target framework:

• Drive annual Integrated Business plan working across functions and multiple stakeholders to derive a multi-year plan
• Support Financial input required centrally and globally to arrive at business unit target framework for the year

Rolling Forecast:

• Own end to end forecast for P&L line items under your scope as part of monthly S&OP and Financial Forecast submission.
• Coordinate and ensure timely and qualitative cash up for responsible areas.
• Ensure adequate review, accountability and alignment between each data and process champion.
• Prepare and share S&OP financial report with assumptions, opportunities and risk considerations in the forecast (ARO), also variance analysis current Forecast vs Previous and prior year.

Month end closing and performance management:

• Perform month end closing activities in collaboration with support team – Global Management and reporting team (GMR team).
• Consolidate and lead actual performance analysis and provide documented insight to the business.
• Support performance reporting submission as part of the month end closing activities.

Control and governance:

• Enforce cadence and governance around end-to-end forecast & reporting process.
• Overall GFCF (Global Financial Control Framework) Record to report compliance.

Business partnering and value management:

• Partner GM for any gap closing activities and risk and opportunities management.
• Provide insightful analytics for decision support and report requirement to the NFD on demand
• Drive performance focus under pareto lenses to have impact on profit

What You will need to Succeed
Experiences & Qualifications:

• University Degree
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Finance Performance management
• Professional accounting qualifications (CPA/ ACCA/ CIMA/ ICAN)
• Experience in working with SAP or similar accounting software.

Skills:

• Storytelling, data visualization and presentation skills
• Strong excel and financial modelling skills.
• Effective communication
• Stakeholder management
• Project management

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
  • Personal Mastery: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
  • 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.
  • Purpose & Services: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • Consumer Love: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • Business Accumen: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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