B&W Thailand Finance Business Partner Lead

Job Purpose:

Reporting to the B&W Greater Asia Performance Lead, the role is responsible for providing business support to the B&W Thailand Lead in pursuit of achieving sustainable business targets.

Finance Business Partnering (FBP) at Unilever is a highly dynamic and exciting role. As the owner of your Country Business Unit's P&L, you are responsible for supporting the business with a CFO mindset. The role typically includes supporting the business in defining the right strategies, managing business cases to support new launch decisions, monthly forecast update and performance analysis, drive strategic analysis to drive long term value creation. The goal is always to advise and support your business partners to deliver consistent, competitive, profitable, and responsible growth, in the short and long run.

Main Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze financial performance of the Business Unit categories and brands in B&W. This includes analysis of actual results, updating the financial forecast, and budget controls on BMI and Thailand B&W BU Overheads.
• Support your business partners (e.g. marketing/BU team) in providing financial analysis required, e.g. business cases to support decision making, other types of analysis to provide insights and support strategic decisions, etc.
• Participate in core business meetings, provide financial advice and viewpoints, and provide support in meeting preparations as required.
• Co-drive Fuel For Growth/Savings agenda in the country for B&W Thailand.
• To drive long term profitability agenda for the business and actively participate in strategic planning and Value Creation.
• Co-ordinate with Greater Asia finance teams in matters relating to category business, as required, and support other financial analysis for Greater Asia B&W BU or Global/Greater Asia B&W Finance projects as needed.
• Support in preparing certain reports (e.g. monthly, quarterly, ad-hoc requests for Global reporting submission) as required.

Accountabilities

• Drive business planning and agree next year's Financial Framework with Leadership.
• Manage in year business performance to deliver Financial Framework.
• Drive long term business planning using the financial growth model (FGM).
• Encourage a dynamic resource allocation among categories/brands.
• Analyse results to identify trends and drive actions to address or take advantage of.
• Variance Analysis versus prior year, previous forecast and framework.
• Manage risk and opportunity tradeoffs within categories/brand and channels.
• Drive return on marketing investment (ROMI) & promotional efficiencies (OPSO).
• Interface with Supply Chain and Procurement to understand cost movements, and advise on pricing opportunities.
• Support innovation process and track post launch evaluations.
• Drive for process and reporting standardization/simplification.
• Build team's capability for continuous improvement.
• Ad Hoc projects as requested eg M&A activity, category recovery plans, etc.

Experience & Qualification:

• Bachelor/Master's Degree, in related field (e.g. Business/Finance/Economics/Accounting/etc.).
• Relevant experiences preferred (e.g. FMCG/Finance Partnering/Auditing/etc.)
• Experience of finance in developing markets
• Deployment of financial growth model and gross margin capabilities
• Experience working on Brand building and/or Brand development finance
• Professional qualification in finance with experience in operational and business partnering roles.
• Excellent inter-personal and communicative skills
• Required Leadership Behaviours
• Accountability & Responsibility
• Growth Mindset
• Business Acumen (Business-minded, with good financial understanding)
• Agility (Curious and Courageous)
• Consumer and Customer Focus
• Bias for Action

Leadership:

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others - both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.
• 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

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.

Additional Information:

• Relocation Clause: N/A
• Compensation and benefits Clause (if any)
• Work location: Unilever Thailand HQ

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