Vacancy for CA / CMA in Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)

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Job Position: Manager (Global Overheads Cost Accounting & Reporting)	Function: Finance (Business & Finance Services)
	Reports to: Sr Manager FCCR/ICRR
Scope:   Global	Location: Bangalore
Business Context
Unilever is a leading fast moving consumer goods company, having its operations all over the globe and touching more than 2 billion lives a day. Within Unilever, Enterprise & Technology Solutions (ETS) is a global team that brings together the synergy between services, technology and information & analytics to improve effectiveness of employees, drive efficiency and generate sustainable growth.   The mission of the ETS organization is To provide excellent services globally which enable Unilever to win in the market by putting the business’ goals at the heart of what we do leveraging cost-effective, best practice, global solutions across Unilever to meet users’ needs making continuous improvement in both cost and service an integral part of our way of working building a professional services organisation that enables our people to give their best developing win-win relationships with selected providers to meet our current and future requirements   Within the service catalogue of ETS, Business & Finance Services organisation is responsible for the management and delivery of Finance Services globally, both through third-party outsourced providers and through in-sourced operations.
Main purpose of role   In recent times Overheads has become a hot topic for discussion, with Go-Bots leading the future of Overheads. Go-Bots is a project, pioneering the overheads agenda for Unilever by increasing the proportion of costs controllable by the Global Divisions & localising as much of our Global costs as possible..   This is an exciting role focused on the End-to-end accounting & reporting of Unilever’s overall Global Cost with a specific focus on Global Divisions Category Investment Plan and Corporate Departments costs. It is an excellent role to demonstrate your accounting capabilities & skill sets whilst helping to deliver Unilever’s in year financial ambition.   The individual will have to dynamically prioritise their time between reporting & forecasting of Global costs, working closely with the global teams to ensure the accurate & timely reporting of all Global costs (incl. Supply Chain Overheads & Brand & Marketing investment).   Key Responsibilities   Oversight of the month end closing activities related to all global costs Ensure the correct reporting of costs captured in the relevant International Cost Centres (ICC), including the processing of central adjustments as requested by the Global stakeholders through the use of Microsoft Excel & iFinance Produce monthly summary of Global Division costs to the appropriate teams Running the entire CTI process to ensure the costs captured in ICC’s are reflected correctly in Management Reporting (v200) Run central validations to align International Cost Reporting (ICR) & Management Results (MR) for Global costs Embedding the correct allocation of costs to Divisions Process journals for all costs incurred in ICC’s into Financial Reporting (v100) to ensure that all Global costs are reflected correctly under Parent & Holding entities Manage the Gross Margin Variance Analysis  (v540) & Working Capital (v560) submissions for Global Departments Oversee the roll-over & restatement of all Global incurred costs at year end Evaluate the latest payroll information provided by the payroll team for Corporate Departments are up-to-date & budgeted for correctly (including restructuring utilisation) Review of the provisional monthly actuals vs Forecast  to identify the need for any central adjustments for Corporate departments Update & prepare monthly accruals for Corporate Departments Prepare the monthly forecast submission for Corporate Departments Provision of ICC Deep dive analysis & variance analysis to aid in discussions with key stakeholders                     Stakeholder Management   Global Divisions (incl. CMCO, Global R&D and Shared Services)   Global ETS Finance team Global Supply Chain Finance team Global CD Finance team Maille & Prestige Finance team     Qualification/Experience   Individual with well-developed analytical and communication skills with ability to deliver under pressure Previous financial accounting or management accounting experience is essential Professional finance qualification CA, ICWAI or MBA with minimum 4-5 years experience     Standard of Leadership   Purpose and Service Agility Passion for high performance Talent Catalyst

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