S&OP Analyst EU FET

Unilever is Looking for a Finance Professional/Analyst Sales & Operations Planning Europe in the Europe Finance Excellence Team (Europe FET)

About Unilever

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

Team Introduction

The Europe Finance Excellence Team (Europe FET) is on the lookout for talented individuals ready to make a real impact. As pioneers of an ‘Above Market’ design, the Europe FET plays a pivotal role in driving key finance operations. This includes month-end closing, forecasting, budget control, management reporting, cash management, and ad hoc decision support, ensuring the smooth financial functioning of European operations. Supporting an €11bn yearly revenue business, the Europe FET needs someone passionate about finance who is eager to contribute to an environment that values collaboration, growth, and impact.

The Europe FET is characterized by its diverse and vibrant culture, bringing together finance professionals from a wide range of backgrounds. The team firmly believes that the best solutions come from a mix of perspectives, leveraging this diversity to solve challenges and foster innovation. With a location strategy based out of three geographical hubs – Kingston, Rotterdam, and Warsaw – the Europe FET aims to enable seamless collaboration by building centers of excellence. These hubs not only facilitate better support to our Markets and Business Groups but also create thriving environments for shared learning.

The FET isn’t just about numbers; it’s also about people. The team cultivates an engaging and collaborative atmosphere where every member’s voice is heard and valued. There are ample opportunities to learn, take ownership of projects, and directly impact the financial health of the organization. For individuals looking to grow their skills within a fantastic team and help shape the future of finance operations in Europe, the Europe FET is an exciting place to be. Come and be a part of a journey where finance meets innovation, and every day brings a new opportunity to make a difference.

Job Purpose

The role holder will be the subject matter expert in the cash-up process within the Europe FET team, with in-depth knowledge of the Europe cash-up tool and its critical role in the company's S&OP process. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality and hygiene from pre cash up to the final forecast, partnering with Business Unit Finance business partners to resolve pricing issues, identifying and addressing any discrepancies in forecasted numbers, govern the overall process run by the Digital & Analytics team and ensure end to end completeness and sign off from country and business unit.

Key Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for:

• Ensuring data hygiene checks from pre cash up to the final submitted forecast.
• Ensure all missing prices detail or Trade Marketing Investments detail are addressed on time.
• Ensuring financial reports are updated from pre cash up to the final submitted forecast.
• Ensuring final forecast sign-off by country.
• Ensuring the effective data remodeling and retraining for Trade Marketing Investment forecast.

You will be accountable for:

• Running the pre-cash-up process and providing insights into the financial forecast during pre-cash up week.
• Fixing potential list price and transfer price issues and providing details on missing list prices and transfer prices.
• Offering insights into the financial forecast based on the volume forecast snapshot.
• Ensuring P&L is actualized in the Cash up tool during month-end close.
• Ensuring correct Overheads and Brand & Marketing Investment in cash up tool.
• Reporting Gross Margin variance analyses for the cycle.

Provide support on:

• Market adjustments in the Cash up tool.
• Market manual adjustments executed by FP&A team.
• Further developments of the European cash up tool.

Skills You Should Have

• Finance professional with solid experience in Business Planning (forecasting) and the S&OP process (Sales & Operations Planning) and an understanding of Finance’s role within it.
• Structured and well-organized, capable of prioritizing multiple tasks while looking for ways to improve processes.
• Independent worker, able to make decisions and deliver to timetable with a very high degree of autonomy.
• Strong at business communication and partnering.
• Inquisitive mind and problem-solving skills – ability to handle complex sets of data and find sources of error with speed.
• Deep understanding of highly complex business processes and the ability to translate these and break them down into simple, navigable pieces.
• Advanced Excel skills – ability to manipulate large volumes of data efficiently and accurately.

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, 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%-60% 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!

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, parenthood, pregnancy or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against.

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women equally men to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.