Finance excellence team managerUnilever

MAIN JOB PURPOSE
Drive performance management, achievement of business targets for the business.
Lead Information &Analytics agenda for Philippines, data-driven culture for generating insights, making decisions and driving actions.
Lead finance talent capability building jointly with other Finance leaders.
JOB SUMMARY
Directly responsible for driving performance management with agility even in uncertainty, business partnering leadership teams across the organisation (Philippine LT, Marketing LT, cross-functional category teams) on financial forecasting, resource allocation, evaluation of investment risks and opportunities.
Able to drive data-driven decision support and risk management in the areas of growth and profit delivery of the organisation, framing issues, challenging the business and providing solutions to strategic and operational problems.
Leads the Information & Analytics agenda for Philippines, working with global I&A teams on information simplification, generating insights and actions to unlock value for the business and landing systems/capabilities on automation, machine learning, AI.
As a member of the Finance LT and of the Finance Excellence Team, inherent in the role of FET Manger is strong leadership skills, driving pioneering agenda and jointly building finance team capability.
Role reports into the FET Director. Entire FET team is a total of 17 people, of which 5 are direct reports.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
At least 5 years significant Senior Finance Business Partnering experience (preferably partnering Marketing team and cross-functional teams)
Experience in driving P&L performance improvements and identification of risks/controls and opportunities on growth and profit delivery
Strong leadership, self-confident integrity and communication skills in partnering senior leaders across the business, both Finance and non-Finance stakeholders, local and global
Resilient, able to cope with time pressure and challenges, thrives in change, agility and flexibility to address business challenges and land sustainable solutions
Effective collaboration, project management and change management experience in delivering new ways of working, value interventions, etc.
Experience in driving data-driven insights and analytics for decision-making, strong analytical skills; data expertise/data scientist experience is a plus
Proficient in Microsoft Business Tools (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Teams, PowerBI, Flow)