Asia Ice Cream F4G Manager

About Unilever

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Job Purpose

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We are looking for talents that would like to join this exciting journey with us. 

Our Asia Ice Cream team is embarking on an exciting journey as this role leads driving the F4G agenda of Asia Ice cream, including productivity and ROI improvement across the P&L. Key responsibility of the role is to provide finance leadership to build F4G framework, funnels and governance, analytics of big bets and financial growth models to support decision making. 

To achieve this, this candidate needs to lead and drive cross markets and function teams. Prioritization, problem solving, and strong collaboration and interpersonal skills are required. Prior experience in Supply Chain Finance is a must.

Main Responsibilities

• Drive F4G (Fuel for Growth) agenda and delivery for path to profitability improvement. 

• Provide financial insights of SC productivity and investment ROI across P&L

• Work with cross markets and function teams build F4G project funnels and run the governance. 

• Develop business cases of big bets of cost and cash optimization and drive the value realization. 

Key stakeholders:

• Asia Ice Cream BU Leadership Team

• Asia Ice Cream Supply Chain and Procurement

• Asia Ice Cream R&D

• Asia Ice Cream Marketing

• Asia Ice Cream sales team

Requirement

Skills

• Professional in accounting and control knowledge, experiencing in costing and full P&L

• Able to process massive data and able to present the data efficiently to support business decisions

• Bachelor’s degree with relevant to finance/accounting, higher education background and financial certificates (CICPA/ACCA etc.) is a plus

• Fluent English

Experience

• 5 years+ experience in finance 

• Experience in managing SCC

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.

• You are still responsible for your own results and as a team leader, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own wellbeing and resilience.

• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best. Inspires powerful teamwork and collaboration, connecting people for better results.

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Additional Information

Please be aware if you are applying for this role, we require you to have working rights in the country where the role will based in. 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. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions