B&W Finance Business Partner UK/I

Please Note: The deadline for applying is 23.59 the day before the job posting end date.

Job Title: B&W Finance Business Partner UK/I

Location: Kingston Head Office

Work-Level: 1C

Beauty & Wellbeing is one of the 5 Business Groups (BG) for Unilever with 20% of TO and 25% of Profit contribution to Unilever. Beauty is a 285+ B Eu market with 5-6% growth. So the opportunities are immense!!

We believe in Positive Beauty and Healthy Lifestyle across all our Beauty & Wellbeing brands. Within our newly created Business Unit, we want to make the shift from being a challenger to one of the market leaders when it comes to beauty.

The exciting journey to growth will have it’s share of challenges. We intend to stay focused on premiumization, make sharp choices on demand spaces, win in our key citadel geographies, build disproportionate digital and social influencer marketing & beauty capabilities and grow in disruptive channels (Dcom, Health & Beauty).

These bold ambitions require a start up mentality, working agile and a true owner’s mindset, building a beauty culture from within.

We have the strength of some amazing Brands (Simple, Tresemme, Vaseline, Shea, Dove) within the BU and look forward to talent like you joining our team to make this journey a memorable one!

JOB PURPOSE

There are 3 sizeable BG Led markets for B&W in EU: UK/I, Netherlands and Italy (o/w UK/I is the biggest).

The B&W Finance Business Partner UK/I will be the first point of contact for B&W BU with regards to performance, financial planning, and finance business partnering for the UK/I.

This is a high exposure role with an emphasis on excellent financial basics and collaborating closely with the B&W EU & UKI Finance lead and other BULT members. This is a major opportunity to cement a reputation as a high performing business partner who is able to provide great analysis, clear partnering & decision support, and is ready to take the next level to become a manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner the B&W UK/I CSP, Marketing, and other stakeholders to achieve strategic and operational objectives
• Provide in depth analysis and decision-making support - influencing senior stakeholders to deliver results, mitigate risks and unlock opportunities for growth.
• Deliver actuals, understand the building blocks of the FC, and support on finding opportunities whilst mitigating risks to deliver in-year targets
• Supporting key stakeholder forums including monthly S&OP, quarterly business reviews, and IBP.
• Develop corrective actions on major performance interventions if needed, such as pricing and promotional resets or BMI trade-offs.
• Innovation partnering – ensure strong commercial decisions are made for sizable business cases
• Business partner monthly cash up process with CSP & Demand planners, as well as manage and coordinate monthly financial submissions
• Work with B&W EU & UKI finance lead on long term strategic thinking and 3 year plans for UK/I
• Support brand investment strategy and control BMI budgets

ALL ABOUT YOU

Experiences & qualifications

• Experience of thriving in a fast paced, results-oriented environment requiring a high degree of flexibility
• Fostering a strong network and building connections with cross functional teams from across various countries
• 3+ years of experience in financial, operational roles. Relevant business partnering experience within BG/BU, National teams and/or SC Finance roles is preferred.

Skills

• Beauty Quotient: the candidate must have an appreciation for Beauty and be able to truly adopt and role model the “Beauty Culture” we would want to build (humble yet rebellious, agile, entrepreneurial, energetic and fun).
• Business acumen and is biased towards actions that have the most tangible and significant impact.
• Ability to work under time pressure and ability to dynamically prioritise the workload
• Ability to understand complex dependencies and drive simplification
• Self-confident leadership with an ability to make an immediate impact with stakeholders
• Influencing skills to drive business outcomes in a collaborative working manner
• Able to be independent, proactive and lead to achieve challenging results

Key UL Behaviours

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions. 
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience. 
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

NOTES

Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications may not be processed and include your Future Fit Plan if possible.

By applying for this vacancy, you are confirming that you have made your Line Manager aware of your application and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.   

Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact your Talent Partner Sophie Whall on sophie.whall@unilever.com

What we offer

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 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 (unilever.com).

Location

In June 2020 we announced our plan to consolidate a number of Unilever’s offices across the South East of England into a new Unilever campus in Kingston-upon-Thames in or around early 2025. However, on the 08 August 2024 we announced to our existing staff our proposal to retain our central Head Office in London, 100 Victoria Embankment (“100VE”) until our lease expires in 2027. As a result of this new proposal, we will be consulting with our existing staff, and new joiners who join during this period of consultation at 100VE, on the proposal made in August 2024. During consultation we will clarify the future location of each team and function. This means your role will either be based in 100VE until 2027 or in Kingston-Upon-Thames from early 2025. As we are yet to commence consultation on the proposal you agree, until such a time when consultation has concluded, your normal place of work as set out in the enclosed Statement of Terms & Conditions will be 100VE. You agree that on the conclusion of the consultation your place of work will be 100VE or 100VE until early 2025 and then Kingston-upon-Thames ("the locations") and you will be notified of which of the locations will be your place of work after that consultation ends.

Relocation to the UK

Please be aware if you are applying for this role from outside the UK, if successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. This means any relocation costs must be self-funded with the potential to reclaim some specific pre-approved expenses up to £5,000. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions.