Associate Finance Manager Supply Chain Foods NA

Unilever • Hoboken, NJ

197d • $86,080 - $129,120

About The Position

The Associate Finance Manager in the Foods Supply Chain Finance Team will play a crucial role in driving finance partnerships with Foods Procurement across both Raw, Pack and third-party manufacturing networks. Cost Transformation, Material Forecasting, and Month-End Close excellence will be key focus points of the agenda, with this role being the key custodian of the Material Savings agenda. In North America Foods, Materials spend (Soybean Oil, Eggs, Plastics) is our largest and most dynamic area of spend type in the organization, this position will have end-to-end Finance ownership of it, along with being the direct finance partner to the material buyers' team. This is a highly visible role, allowing for quick impact right away. Foods Procurement delivers a significant amount of savings to the business, and we have a very ambitious plan for the next 3 years. As Finance, we need to ensure that our business partners have full visibility into savings agenda, inflation headwinds, sourcing decisions and ultimately understanding the current delivery and future risks and opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; MBA or CPA strongly preferred.
• Minimum three years of relevant work experience.
• Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills to clearly communicate results and implications of analysis.
• Experience communicating financial acumen effectively including finance and non-finance.
• Ability to handle and work under pressure and to tight deadlines, strong bias for action, ability to work with remote teams.
• Strong technical acumen and attention to detail.
• Experience in PBCS/AFO/PowerBI is strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical skills, good stakeholder management and clear communication.

Nice To Haves

• Prior Supply Chain Finance and financial planning experience preferred.
• Exceptional knowledge of financial information systems.
• Advanced technical and analytical skills.
• Advanced logic and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for partnering the Foods Procurement organization in providing analysis & support on decision making.
• Drives management of the annual Material Cost spend of €500m+.
• Responsible for reconciliation of monthly material results (Net Material Inflation), monthly forecast updates including a deeper forecast update on Procurement Cycles (Inflation updates).
• Provides risk assessment and quality insights to in month delivery and forward forecast.
• Leads monthly results review with Foods Procurement, giving analysis & insights to procurement function on how results are landing & potential R&O.
• Conducts monthly miscellaneous budget reviews with Procurement & 3PM Operations teams driving cost control & budget management on miscellaneous spend.

Benefits

• Health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage).
• Retirement savings benefits.
• Life insurance and disability benefits.
• Parental leave.
• Sick leave.
• Paid vacation and holidays.
• Access to numerous voluntary benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Food Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree