Finance Analyst, KKR at Unilever Nigeria Plc

Unilever Nigeria - 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!

At Unilever, you can shape your own path as you work with the brands and people that drive our sustainable business growth.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Analyst, KKR

Job Number: 18000DCT
Location: Oregun, Lagos
Job Field: Finance
Job Type: Regular
Job Schedule: Full-time

Your Main Responsibilities
OVH, BMI and Forecasting:

• Management reporting including Financial forecasting/budgeting and longer-term strategic planning processes
• Managing and reporting of OVHs and BMI costs
• Ensure correct bookings of costs in P&L as per SCOA
• Forecast working capital
• Support related budget owners
• Provide assistance in forecasting and other ad-hoc business analysis
• OC Governance, continuous improvement on rule based journals + controls
• Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU

P2P Analysis:

• P2P OC Governance, continuous Improvement on P2P Processes + controls
• Working Capital forecasting, reporting and commentary;
• Partnering BMI and Overheads teams with P2P processes
• P2P Metrics – POT (Payment on time), POC (PO Compliance), FPY (First Pass Yield) – working with/ supporting OC with directive to improve metrics
• Approval of urgent/ manual payments
• Query Escalations from business on poor service/ issues after contacting AP helpdesk/ OC/ BCS Agent
• Resolve audit queries which IBM/ OC cannot resolve
• GRNI support
• Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU

O2C and credit controls:

• Manage customer overdues across all customers
• Improve working capital through management of customer payment performance and trade term compliance
• Manage and mitigate bad debt and minimise bad debt provision
• Work with the shared service teams to ensure effective and aligned communication and deliverables are met
• Worked with shared service teams to ensure that accounts are reconciled correctly, customer statements issued in a timely manner
• Work with shared service and other internal functions to ensure that customer claims are placed in a timely manner and support the resolution of deductions on customer accounts
• Ensure accurate and timely month end reporting
• Support first line investigation and resolution of EDI issues
• Raise manual accruals for CD trade terms
• Prepare and validate rebate review
• Allocate promotional invoices against correct rebates
• Resolve deductions, disputed claims that IBM cannot resolve with the CD team
• Provided support for statutory reporting requirements

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• A very strong academic record
• Excellent understanding of financial metrics and FFG Financial processes
• Very strong track record of delivery in previous Finance roles
• Very strong work ethic, resilience in the face of pressure, good team player, ability to meet multiple stretching deadlines, great communication skills and excellent attention to detail
• Strong analytical bias and Microsoft Excel skills
• PowerPoint capability

Your Personal Power!

• At BCS we want you to bring your ideas, your motivation and desire to succeed!This part of the role is up to you to complete.

Culture:

• We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60+ countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.
• If you are an entrepreneur at heart and have a passion for winning, a strong understanding of the CPG business, ad would like to join us, apply and speak to one of our Talent Matchmakers!

Application Closing Date
10th September, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online