Finance Executive-sc Accounting

Job Title - Finance Executive-SC Accounting

Job Location - Bengaluru

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Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

Unilever Operations (UniOps) is a global business unit that will manage the company’s shared business services, made up of HR Services, Finance Transactions, IT services, Information Management Services and Workplace Services.

Mission - 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 organization that enables our people to give their best.- developing win-win relationships with selected providers to meet our current and future requirements.

The key benefits from UniOps are expected to be:
- Lower cost of delivery through standardization, simplification, process harmonization & scale leverage.- Better user experience by delivery of integrated service bundles to end-user.- Continuous improvement through end-to-end process ownership.

Within the service catalogue of UniOps, Commercial Experience (CommEx) organization is responsible for the management and delivery of Finance Services globally, both through third[1]party outsourced providers and through in-sourced operations. The Supply Chain Finance Services team is responsible for the End-to-End Supply Chain Accounting processes from SC transactional activities to provide transparency in SC Cost movements to the SC Finance and MSO Finance organization, including being the guardian of the global product costing rulebook, compliance and controls, (SOX, audit) regarding SC operational related activities, maintenance of routings, month end close process.

The Unilever Operations Centre (UniOps, Finance Shared Service centre) will be responsible for providing up to date, and relevant Supply Chain Accounting information to its customers (SC Finance and Cluster/Country finance) through various channels to provide relevant, accurate and timely reports on SC Accounting activities (Product Costing, Transfer Pricing), and transparency in SC Cost movements (end to view on changes in input drivers to impact on SC Cost in countries P&L.

Key activities summary:

- Executes with rigor and discipline SC accounting activities like product costing, transfer pricing, actual costing covering 120 factories, 12 billion SC cost / annum
- Executes checks and controls and reach out to input stakeholders to revise input templates for both actual and standard
- In depth understanding of business systems and tools
- Track and register for SOX and Audit purposes
- Subject matter expertise for specific accounting processes and country issues.
- Excellent service delivery.

Main Accountabilities
- Demonstrated capability to perform in a highly qualified and motivated team and to take responsibility for the end-to-end Supply Chain accounting process for the cluster/countries serviced
- Track record of excellent service delivery.
- Rigor and discipline in execution of Product Costing, Actual costing, and Transfer pricing
- Register product costing, actual costing and transfer pricing for SOX and Audit purposes
- Executes checks and controls and take appropriate actions
- Reports in depth analysis of technical variances against standard during month and takes corrective actions
- Register performance via agreed set of KPI’s
- Assist Assistant managers with ad hoc questions.

Key accountabilities

Customer Service
- To accurately perform Supply Chain Accounting Analyses to meet customer demands on understanding of SC Cost movements
- To adhere to the departmental service levels and the factors that affect service, providing a high standard customer service.
- Active involvement in team meetings - suggest ways