Senior Audit Manager - Finance

ICE CREAM IS HIRING FOR A Senior Audit Manager - Finance

If you are in the Unilever Ice Cream business or consider choosing to work for the Unilever Ice Cream business, you will work for the Global, leading Ice Cream player with €8.3bn Turn Over in 2024. The Ice Cream business is operating in a highly attractive category, as we are part of the EUR 470 billion snacking and refreshment industry, growing consistently at high pace. We have strong brands equities: 5 of top 10 selling brands including Wall’s, Magnum, Ben & Jerry’s. We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of Ice Cream as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen by the end of 2025.

Ice Cream has distinct characteristics from Unilever’s other operating businesses and the growth potential of Ice Cream will be better delivered as a standalone focused Ice Cream company. As Ice Cream company we are committed to developing and nurturing talent within our Ice Cream company. You will have options for career growth and exploration, allowing you for you to explore roles and opportunities across the new organisation. Your career development will be a priority for us, and we are dedicated to supporting your growth journey within the new company. We hope that you will want to build the new chapter of our Ice Cream history together with us.

ABOUT ICE CREAM: Life Tastes Better With Ice Cream

Unilever Ice Cream is the world’s leading ice cream company, home to a portfolio of iconic brands like Magnum, Calippo, Solero, Festini, Talenti, and Yasso. We're committed to creating innovative products that bring unforgettable moments to our consumers—because, after all, “Life tastes better with ice cream.”

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, becoming an independent, single-category focused company by the end of 2025. This move reflects our belief in the power of our unique frozen footprint, which we see as having huge potential for growth as a pure-play business. Our focus is all about unlocking that potential, driving value for our consumers, customers, employees, and shareholders.

BACKGROUND:

A role in Internal Audit provides a valuable opportunity to deepen functional skills, develop a deep knowledge of business & operational risk/control management and governance across the Ice Cream business.

You will develop broad leadership skills, stakeholder management skills, influencing skills & communication skills and better understanding of Ice Cream’s Corporate Governance.

JOB PURPOSE:

In this role you will be part of a team auditing Ice Cream businesses across the globe. The Senior Audit Manager Finance will:

• Bring an in-depth knowledge of finance processes and practices to the audit teams (including 3P).
• Identify key risks in finance and evaluate the key controls that mitigate these risks, identify any weaknesses and develop recommendations to address these.
• Identify and disseminate good practices.
• Train other auditors (including 3P) in finance processes and practices.
• Lead/participate in cross-functional audit work globally.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Auditing: deliver high-quality audits by evaluating the design and operational effectiveness of controls across multiple functional areas and business units

2. Audit planning: be accountable for the Risk Assessment and all aspects of audit planning including discussions with unit management to understand business context, identification of key risks and proposal of audit scope/plan.

3. Lead Finance Expertise: setting the agenda for landing changes & improving the impact and insight of our audits by liaising with Centres of Excellence (content/process owners) on audit findings, identifying good practices/ functional issues/developments, capability building and internal & external benchmarking.

4. Audit Team leadership: Leading teams on the day to day running of an audit, including monitoring the progress and completion of the audit plan, presenting updates to relevant stakeholders and publishing the audit report.

5. Stakeholder Connects: proactively engage senior leaders in the business to understand the business environment and key risks, share emerging themes and key take-outs from audit.

6. Strategic Priorities and Initiatives: deliver workplan and strategic initiatives in line with the priorities of Internal Audit to ensure that the function is at par with the developments in the audit industry.

7. Self and Team Development: Develop, commit to and action a future fit self-development plan, proactively contribute to the development of others in the team by playing a coaching role.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Strong communication and presentation skills. Fluent spoken and written English is required.
• Strong Accounting Skills.
• Problem-solving skills, ability to make reliable and objective judgments and conclusions.
• Strategic Influencing – ability to influence across all levels of the organisation and shared Centre of Excellence
• Strong analytical skills with ability to synthesize large amounts of data into clear, concise findings
• Clarity of thinking – ability to see the bigger picture, whilst interested to dive into details and articulate the findings
• Digital savviness
• Mature self-starter, able to work independently and in teams
• Result Oriented
• Self-confidence, resilient and integrity
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in financial/accounting roles (in FMCG is a plus), ideally in a managerial role with a track-record of successful performance.
• Professional finance qualification equivalent to CA, CIMA, ACCA.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting & dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!

• Attractive total remuneration package; excellent company pension, bonus and share scheme.
• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.
• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.
• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.
• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate. For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office, you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products.
• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products.
• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).
• Home work allowance
• Company laptop and mobile phone
• Green Mobility Policy

EXCITED?

Join Unilever and our team! Looking forward to meeting you!

“Life tastes better with ice cream.”

Unilever Ice Cream Team