Jobs
Jobs in Nigeria at Unilever, 2nd June 2014
Unilever is a British–Dutch multinational consumer goods
company co-headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and London, United
Kingdom. Its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and
personal care products. Unilever Nigeria is a manufacturer of leading
brands in foods, home care and personal care.
Job Title: Factory Accounts Assistant
Job Number: 15000AEM
Primary Location : Nigeria-Ogun State-Agbara-Agbara-Tea Factory
Shift : Day Job
Job : Finance
Travel : No
Job Purpose and Key Responsibilities
Responsible for monitoring & managing all factory cost elements
(labor, repair & maintenance, production indirect, utilities, etc.)
Business partnering with various stakeholders for effective & efficient monitoring & managing of costs
Specifically partner Plant Manager & team to plan, review costs and look for cost savings opportunities for Savory plant
Monthly ensure that accruals & provisions are properly raised and
passed into the books including accounting treatment of all transactions
using correct GL accounts, facilitate smooth running of cycles, getting
involved in MEC
Annually – prepare production budget and upload into SAP, directly involved in the calculation of conversion costs.
Review cost centers & plan assessment cycles to reflect reality in the factory
Interface between Product Cost & SC Accountants on costing
Reviews review production plans and exercises a controlling role in material consumption variances.
Month end reporting packs on actual and forecast
Provide direct inputs for monthly S&OP and Quarterly PCE processes as they relate to Savory plant.
Job RequirementsRequired Experience: 1-3 year(s)
Desired Courses: Accounting, ACCA, CIMA, ICAN
Minimum Criteria & Experience Required
A minimum of an OND/HND Degree plus part professional accountant qualification - studying towards ACCA, CIMA, ICAN
Min 2-3 years finance experience in an FMCG – preferably in a Factory Finance environment
Solid experience of costing techniques
Min 2-3 years experience in product costing and stock management
Leadership skills – able to lead, motivate, inspire
Previous experience in SAP (R3, MM, CO)
Proficient in Microsoft Excel
Profile Self-starter and able to operate independently
Confident and Assertive – able to find and ask for help, challenge business partners
Self-motivated, optimistic and able to see opportunities during tough times
Team player, ability to work well with factory team will be key
Analytical
Job Title: Factory Accountant
Job Number: 150008P8
Primary Location : Nigeria-Lagos State-Lagos-Oregun - Head Office
Shift : Day Job
Job : Finance
Travel : No
Main Purpose This
primary role covers a factory site within the cluster. This role’s
responsibility is for the monitor and control of the sites production
costs, waste which if done incorrectly will have a significant and
material effect for the site. The role will assist in providing relevant
financial and management information, systems and commercial support to
the supply chain factory process.
Main Accountabilities • Provides management information to the Factory management (experience in areas of product costing, capex).
• Identifies cost and asset utilisation improvement opportunities, and co-development of solutions.
• Ad-hoc analysis of manufacturing capabilities
• Timely and accurate reporting of factory results.
• Budgetary planning and control of factory overheads.
• Assists in providing Supply Chain factory information required for forecasting and strategic planning to the Finance Team
•
Uses roots and contacts defined by FBP SC to scan external, economic
and financial environment to identify changes and best finance practice
affecting Supply Chain and cascade relevant information to relevant
Managers.
• Provides support to FBP SC to develop Supply Chain
information system including relevant KPIs and performance measurement
systems and scorecards
• Provides information to Financial
Accountant about local suppliers for maintenance and all other financial
inputs concerning the factory
• Conducts Gross Margin Variance Analysis for all supply chain factory processes
Job RequirementsRequired Experience: Not Specified
Desired Courses: Accounting, Finance
Job Title: Finance Officer, Treasury OPS
Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit
Job Number: 15000AEO
Primary Location : Nigeria-Lagos State-Lagos-Oregun - Head Office
Shift : Day Job
Job : Finance
Travel : No
Main Purpose:
To
be the front office contact personnel relating with the banks on
Company transactions, co-ordinating Treasury operations and physical
cash management at the cash offices.
Main Accountabilities •
Issues already agreed reports on weekly and monthly basis (Weekly petty
cash summary, weekly FOREX exposure report, Monthly Cash analysis
Report, Monthly Profit and Loss on forward contracts, Monthly Net Liquid
Funds submission on BCS)
• Wire Transfers (Payments of Foreign currency denominated invoices)
• Review of quotes for forward contracts
• Review of bank Statement, crosschecking on bank charges
• Relates with bankers on Company’s transactions
• Ensures all relevant journals are raised, approved and posted
• Is responsible for the accuracy of the report
• Is responsible for issuing the reports on time
• Takes responsibility of own development
Job RequirementsRequired Experience: Not Specified
Desired Courses: Accounting, Finance
Job Title: Financial Controller
Job Number: 150006WX
Primary Location : Nigeria-Lagos State-Lagos-Oregun - Head Office
Shift : Day Job
Job : Finance
Travel : No
Main Purpose: •
The responsibilities are cross sites and cover every aspect of the
balance sheet, profit & loss account and control environment.
• Leading a team of Finance people and provide coaching and support to an ambitious management team.
•
Leading the Corporate Risk management process of the business and act
as the conscience of the business, both from a risk and from a
“Financial Fitness” perspective.
• The Financial Controller is a key
member of the Operational Finance Leadership Team and co-leader of the
Financial Controllers Group.
Main Accountabilities Financial
accounting and reporting of the legal entity, which comprises the
Organisation, the Sourcing Units, the factory sites.
• Full ownership of the Balance Sheet and P&L.
• Risk management and the control environment, in line with the Sarbanes- Oxley legislation.
• Lead the Accounts Receivables, General Ledger & Reporting, expenses, NPI and Asset Management functions.
•
Cash Flow forecast and management, Forex exposure, Overhead budget
management, Eurocost reporting, statutory reporting and tax.
• A variety of ad hoc projects including brand disposal & below the line activities.
Part of the team establishing the Finance Excellence Centre.
Short term Key Deliverables: • Change management, as the Accounts Payable function is in the process of being transferred to the Finance Excellence Centre.
• Ensuring the control environment is at re-performance standards, in line with Sarbanes-Oxley.
•
Process improvements to ensure each and every finance process will
become World Class (e.g. driving further improvements/changes within the
European SAP design; sharing best practice with Unilever global process
owners)
• Establish relationships with External Audit partners (i.e. PwC)
Job RequirementsRequired Experience: Not Specified
Desired Courses: Accounting, Finance
Job Title: Finance BP SC
Job TypeFull Time
QualificationBA/BSc/HND MBA/MSc/MA
Location Lagos
Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit
Job Number: 15000AJE
Primary Location : Nigeria-Lagos State-Lagos-Oregun - Head Office
Shift : Day Job
Job : Finance
Travel : No
Main Job Purpose: • Partner in-year target delivery of financial growth model (Results and Forecast)
• Drive performance management agenda
• Partner the business case development and benefit realisation for project investments
• Strategically influence and collaborate with stakeholders to maximise value creation.
• Commercially shape the medium to long term direction of their respective pillar
Key accountabilities and focus of employees mapped to Finance Business Partner Manager standard job.
1. Financial Growth Model (FGM):
• Provision of performance analysis for delivery of in-year target underpinning financial growth model
• Develop a sustainable business plan that can deliver competitive, profitable volume growth using the FGM.
• Strategically influence senior stakeholders within the brand/pillar/ category.
• Commercially shape the medium to long term direction of their respective brands/ pillar/ category.
Assesses the Financial needs of the organisation in order to design and deliver the most effective Finance solutions.
2. Strategic Resource Allocation / Analytics:
•
Oversee the CIP budget management (people costs, BIC) and facilitate
trade-offs to meet the strategic priorities of the business.
• Drive
for consistency of resource allocation Align stakeholder commitment to
financial investments and ensure they are commensurate with future
growth potential.
• Uses insight to suggest paths of action and short term Finance solutions
3. Gate Keeping & Portfolio Management:
• Develop business cases for planned innovations and model pricing and cost assumptions to maximise margin accretion.
• Assess, articulate & drive actions on risks and opportunities for medium & large projects.
• Business case development and benefit realisation for project investments across the brand / pillar / category.
•
Performance Management and Reporting: Leverage standard performance
reporting to enable 360 degree view of business and hold itself and
others accountable for delivery of strategy and performance.
• Actively drive simplification of reports and reporting process to maximise harmonisation and efficiency.
• Coaches and advises business leaders in the optimisation of Finance processes and techniques to improve performance
• Improves business performance
• Control & Accounting: Responsible for managing budgets (Bought in Cost (BIC) and departmental costs) budgets.
• Key driver of robust resource and budget allocation and capital expenditure. • Challenge inefficiencies and indicate drivers.
• Ensure integrity and control across accrual/ payment process.
4. Drive Gross Margin Improvement:
•
Monitor monthly results, understanding the variance in GM levels,
challenging business partners on the reasons of the GM levels.
• Quantify and drive in year margin enhancement/ savings opportunities.
• Prepare cross country analysis on costs to find opportunities to improve GM.
• Implement Strategic Pricing framework with top markets, escalate when Strategic & Operational pricing diverge.
Job Title: Finance BP, BB
Job Number: 15000AJF
Primary Location : Nigeria-Lagos State-Lagos-Oregun - Head Office
Shift : Day Job
Job : Finance
Travel : No
Main Job Purpose: • Partner in-year target delivery of financial growth model (Results and Forecast)
• Drive performance management agenda
• Partner the business case development and benefit realisation for project investments
• Strategically influence and collaborate with stakeholders to maximise value creation.
• Commercially shape the medium to long term direction of their respective pillar
Key accountabilities and focus of employees mapped to Finance Business Partner Manager standard job.
1. Financial Growth Model (FGM):
• Provision of performance analysis for delivery of in-year target underpinning financial growth model
• Develop a sustainable business plan that can deliver competitive, profitable volume growth using the FGM.
• Strategically influence senior stakeholders within the brand/pillar/ category.
• Commercially shape the medium to long term direction of their respective brands/ pillar/ category.
Assesses the Financial needs of the organisation in order to design and deliver the most effective Finance solutions.
2. Strategic Resource Allocation / Analytics:
•
Oversee the CIP budget management (people costs, BIC) and facilitate
trade-offs to meet the strategic priorities of the business.
• Drive
for consistency of resource allocation Align stakeholder commitment to
financial investments and ensure they are commensurate with future
growth potential.
• Uses insight to suggest paths of action and short term Finance solutions
3. Gate Keeping & Portfolio Management:
• Develop business cases for planned innovations and model pricing and cost assumptions to maximise margin accretion.
• Assess, articulate & drive actions on risks and opportunities for medium & large projects.
• Business case development and benefit realisation for project investments across the brand / pillar / category.
•
Performance Management and Reporting: Leverage standard performance
reporting to enable 360 degree view of business and hold itself and
others accountable for delivery of strategy and performance.
• Actively drive simplification of reports and reporting process to maximise harmonisation and efficiency.
• Coaches and advises business leaders in the optimisation of Finance processes and techniques to improve performance
• Improves business performance
• Control & Accounting: Responsible for managing budgets (Bought in Cost (BIC) and departmental costs) budgets.
• Key driver of robust resource and budget allocation and capital expenditure.
• Challenge inefficiencies and indicate drivers.
• Ensure integrity and control across accrual/ payment process.
4. Drive Gross Margin Improvement:
•
Monitor monthly results, understanding the variance in GM levels,
challenging business partners on the reasons of the GM levels.
• Quantify and drive in year margin enhancement/ savings opportunities.
• Prepare cross country analysis on costs to find opportunities to improve GM.
• Implement Strategic Pricing framework with top markets, escalate when Strategic & Operational pricing diverge.
Job Title: CAPEX and FA Account mgr
Job Number: 15000AJG
Primary Location : Nigeria-Lagos State-Lagos-Oregun - Head Office
Shift : Day Job
Job : Finance
Travel : No
Main Purpose: •
As a member of the Finance Function, you are responsible for ensuring
that depreciation charge for the period is captured in the general
ledger for every month of the year.
• You are also to ensure that
Capex for the acquisition of assets are properly authorised &
approved. You would also pull together commercial case for projects that
requires it.
• Your role is also to track all capital work-in
progress and ensure that completed projects are duly capitalised every
quarter to reflect the asset position of the business.
• You are to identify idle assets in the business and initiate action for provision and subsequent disposal.
•
You would also ensure that the Fixed Asset Register is clean by
carrying out Assets Physical Verification exercise of highlight
redundant & obsolete asset for subsequent approval for disposal
• Your role would also carry out post mortem appraisal for all Capex above the specified benchmark
Main Accountabilities a. Depreciation charge for every month.
• Calculate depreciation and upload; input the depreciation codes and then post to the relevant Business ERP
• Check to ensure it agrees with local output and have it signed off.
• Reconcile year-to-date depreciation on the relevant Business ERPs and GL
b. Functional Assets
• Confirm the amount to be accrued by contract with Treasury
• Match actual payment to accrued amount and write-back any over or under accrual to the ledger
• Reconcile the account and highlight any overpayment or double payment being done on each contract.
c. Capex
• Ensure Capex raised is within approved budget.
• Do commercial case for all capexes that requires it
• Send for Approval by two Exco members and the CEO.
• Track all expenditure for each project by using the Capex unique number for all payments within the Ledger.
• Prompt for overspent where it’s exceeding approved overspend percentages
• Initiate and extract all expenditure on all completed projects to project manager for capitalisation process.
•
Post to the ledger capitalised projects by class of asset. Then do the
same in the relevant Business ERP by detail asset item and by class of
asset. Ensure all journals are duly approved
d. Disposal
• Extract from Business ERPs assets identified to be disposed /write off and obtain permission to dispose off asset
• Completer asset disposal from the relevant Business ERP into P/L on disposal with the cash proceeds.
e. Physical Verification of Assets
• Classify and register all Business Assets by Location
•
Identify assets to register records and classify if existing or not
including red tagged assets, redundant assets, obsolete assets etc
• Investigate and initiate process for obsolete assets to be disposed off or written off.
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