Finance Controller

Job Title: Finance business partner – Lipton Soft Drinks International

Location: Cork – United Kingdom

JOB PURPOSE

The Cork finance BP is responsible for providing financial business partnering, accounting & controllership support for our Pepsi Lipton tea kits factory in Cork, and the Lipton Soft Drinks International legal entity.

Cork factory is the supplier of tea kits for the global market, which is key for our ready to drink tea portfolio within Pepsi Lipton Joint Venture. The industrial Finance business partner role is a great opportunity to further develop in three crucial parts of any finance position: financial accounting/controlling, business partnering and FP&A. As a factory BP you are part of the factory leadership team, where you provide decision making support. Being the finance partner on site you are also responsible for ensuring you have good control on the factory balance sheet and budget, as well as ensuring all required controls for the site and financial reporting are performed in compliance. Further, the job scope includes delivering in-year performance, providing forecast updates and presenting the results to the main stakeholders in the site, Pepsi Lipton International as well as central team in Rotterdam. The Finance BP is part of the finance network team with other nutrition factory BPs across Europe, and reports into the Finance make network lead.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Budget Planning, Forecasting, cost governance & Month End Activities
• Business partnering Factory Leadership Team to drive site performance and support decision-making
• Responsible to ensure site controls are executed (inventories, purchase process, IFRS 16, balance sheet etc)
• Responsible for projects governance and delivery of in year financial performance (costs/capex/waste), final creation and submission of site forecast & annual business plan
• Engagement with PLI (finance) on pricing, forecast and settlements
• Participate in central projects to build finance capabilities for other sites of the cluster/ network

The following activities are part of the current scope, but will significantly change once Cork will be onboarded into the UEBV model and SAP implementation, anticipated in Q3 2025:

• Statutory reporting and audit support
• Manual journals correcting for P&L and balance sheet items (revenue, cash position etc.) and subsequent reporting into iFinance / Connect
• Payments and invoicing responsibility, executed by admin support
• Product costing
• VAT/tax support

MAIN INTERACTIONS

a) Cork factory teams

• Leadership team: The finance BP actively interacts with site leadership team and operations on performance, controls and decisions
• Project leaders (engineers and specialists)

b) PLI

• Finance counterpart at PLI

c) Europe / UKI central teams

• Foods Make network lead and the Foods central finance team
• Ireland and UKI Controlling teams (VAT, Stats)
• Optimises available shared service resources (after SAP implementation)

ALL ABOUT YOU

PERSONAL PROFILE

• Skills Overview: analytics, driving performance, financial accounting, collaboration
• Mobility requirements: role to be Cork based, UKI hybrid working policy applies
• Standards of Leadership: Accountability and responsibility

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’  

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all. 

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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