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Job Title: Agile Finance Analyst - Global Business ServicesLocation: Bangalore/UKAbout UnileverBe part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas, and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life – giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.About The RoleGlobal Data and Tech (GDT) and Global Business Services transform the way our business operates and is experienced. By combining our industry-leading technology organization and decades of supply chain knowledge and expertise, it takes our best practice Supply Chain and UniOps organizations to ‘next practice’ levels, making it more agile and responsive than ever before. It will enable long-term transformational thinking and separate the day-to-day execution in the organization – ensuring that we deliver today and transform tomorrow.Global Business Services is one of our larger entities in Unilever, with an overheads cost base of €0.5B and capex of €0.1B. It plays a vital role in powering Unilever to win and is the delivery engine that enables our company to run every day.GBS does this by embracing radical simplification and standardisation, delivering trusted and highly efficient E2E transformative solutions that redefine corporate performance and increase competitiveness. Through this, GBS fuels growth and maximises profitability by enabling BG/BU/1UL to focus on market facing value driversServices under GBS include Customer Experience, People Experience, Workplace Services, Finance Operations, Supplier Operations and Global Marketing Services.The Finance Business Partnering community is critical in supporting GBS with the delivery of these services, as well as the driving force behind high value interventions to the wider business.Key Responsibilities Partner end to end value interventions: Business case preparation, scenario modelling & evaluation through to implementationii. Remit covers Capex, Restructuring and Fuel 4 Growth interventionsiii. Rigorous and challenging scrutiny over costs and benefits, and interventions on project performanceiv. Maintain agility so that expertise can be quickly shifted to the next value intervention which may be outside of core strategic responsibilities Financial involvement in reviewing in-year performance vs budget, and work on route to budget / savings trajectories for the year Strong relationship with teams in the markets delivering GBS services.ii. Hand in hand work with procurement on understanding changes to contracts/inflation that impact in year positioniii. Side by side working with controllers and market finance teams to ensure correct key asset bookings and hostings charge outs. Support communication and change management of major initiatives through clusters & functions Support the Finance leads within Global Business ServicesPlease NoteAll official offers from Unilever are issued only via our Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Offers from individuals or unofficial sources may be fraudulent—please verify before proceeding.
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