7 Unilever jobs in London

Role: Finance Manager – Global Consumer Goods Business (SME)

Location: Central London (hybrid working)

The Role: This opportunity is working for an upcoming and financially successful and sustainably conscious Consumer Goods business which has multiple revenue streams, a brilliant brand in the sector and a very exciting strategy for the future. As a crucial member of the finance team, reporting into the Director of Finance. The Finance Manager will be responsible for leading the team and implement the business finance strategy, ensuring that the business has highly effective finance processes, controls, and reporting procedures, which in turn will drive efficiency and excellence, resulting in business delivering a world-class finance function. You will be required to manage corporate accounting, regulatory and financial reporting, budget and forecasts, internal control and the day to day running of the finance function. This role offers the opportunity to be part of a growing business at a hugely exciting point in its trajectory, working within a brand universe that already has a huge following and is a leader in food, health, and wellness. This role comes with a very competitive salary, benefits, and a generous bonus scheme.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Go-to technical finance person within the business
• Establish best-in-class month-end process, prepare the monthly management accounts and oversee bookkeeping activities
• Manage our financial systems, policies, and processes
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and reporting requirements (such as UK GAAP/IFRS) as well as compliance from a tax perspective across the globe
• Maintenance of balance sheet to a very high level of detail. Including: AP/AR balances, inventory balances, and accruals and prepayments
• Prepare the year-end Financial Accounts and liaise with Auditors for both our UK and US entities
• Implementation and maintenance of robust internal control systems across the organisation by identifying problems, improving practices, and writing new procedures
• Support in the preparation of annual budgets and business forecasts
• Liaise with 3rd parties where required, including accountants, auditors, banks, lenders, tax advisers and investors
• Oversee AP/AR processes to ensure consistent and strong cashflows
• Oversight of company expense policy, and approval of employee expenses

Requirements:

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified professional
• Previous experience in Food/Retail/FMCG/ desirable
• An excellent communicator with the ability to tell a story and go beyond the analysis
• In-depth knowledge of financial reporting
• Experience in preparing both statutory and management accounts, and experience of consolidation for a multi-entity business

Company Information

Wayman Finance is a specialist recruitment agency with over 20 years’ experience within the Finance field. We’ve worked hard to establish our reputation with our clients as one of the most reliable Finance and Accounting agencies in London through our core values of honesty and customer excellence.

Application

To be considered for this Finance Manager position please forward a CV as soon as possible.

Role: Financial Controller – Global Consumer Goods Business (SME)

Location: Central London (hybrid working)

The Role: This opportunity is working for a upcoming and financially successful Consumer Goods/Hospitality business which has multiple revenue streams, a brilliant brand in the sector and a very exciting strategy for the future. As a crucial member of the finance team, reporting into the CFO. The Financial Controller will be responsible for leading the team and implement the business finance strategy, ensuring that the business has highly effective finance processes, controls and reporting procedures, which in turn will drive efficiency and excellence, resulting in business delivering a world-class finance function. You will be required to manage corporate accounting, regulatory and financial reporting, budget and forecasts, internal control and the day to day running of the finance function. This role offers the opportunity to be part of a growing business at a hugely exciting point in its trajectory, working within a brand universe that already has a huge following and is a leader in food, health, and wellness. This role comes with a very competitive salary, benefits, and a generous bonus scheme.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage Month End and Year End accounting process delivering reports in an accurate and timely manner that are insightful to drive effective decisions
• Finance business partner to all other areas of the business to closely support them in the execution of their targets and objectives, including the commercial team and the supply chain team
• Accountable for the cash position of the business, including forecasts
• Support the CFO to ensure that the business has appropriate funding for the future
• Share accountability with the Head of Supply Chain to manage inventory levels to avoid being out of stock and never over stocked across all revenue channels and inventory locations
• Finance lead for digitising the companies supply chain processes, including setting up our own E-Commerce platform
• Ensure acceptable services levels are maintained for both internal and external customers and workloads are being effectively managed
• Accountable for building and maintaining relationships with the bankers; auditors; and tax advisors
• Coach individuals and teams to success, ensuring culture and values are regularly communicated and protected
• Ensure that the departments’ current and future talent needs are met and that critical skills as well as career paths and succession plans are in place
• Work with the senior leadership team to communicate the organisational vision and ensure that staff members understand how their daily tasks feed into the attainment of the vision

Requirements:

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified professional with a minimum of three years post qualified experience
• Previous experience in Food/Retail/FMCG/Hospitality desirable
• An excellent communicator with the ability to tell a story and go beyond the analysis
• Previous financial controller/head of finance experience required
• In-depth knowledge of international product supply chains, including imported inventory
• Previous experience of being accountable for the delivery of consolidated group management accounts
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting

Company Information

Wayman Finance is a specialist recruitment agency with over 20 years’ experience within the Finance field. We’ve worked hard to establish our reputation with our clients as one of the most reliable Finance and Accounting agencies in London through our core values of honesty and customer excellence.

Application

To be considered for this Financial Controller position please forward a CV as soon as possible

S/4HANA Program Manager
Consumer Goods, Retail, Logistics practice

Senior Principal & Principal level

You want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You'll be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of 300.000 employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset. Are you ready?

Requirements

The Role

• Leading project management functions on large scale transformation programmes
• Manages all workstreams comprised of on- and off-shore resources of the project and is responsible for the overall delivery.
• Ensuring our transformation programmes are delivered with good governance.
• Manage large delivery teams to design end-to-end solutions and ensure deliverables are consistent with design principles, standards and methodologies.
• Deep knowledge of the S/4 HANA Cloud roadmap and other SAP offerings, along with industry guidance and leading practices to support the facilitation of executive-level business decisions.
• Inspire and develop junior colleagues and support their professional development
• Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution

About You

You design and manage complete enterprise solutions. You demonstrate leadership of topics in the architect community and show a passion for technology and business acumen. You work as a stream lead at CIO/CTO level in a major client organization. You will lead Infosys Consulting operations relating to market development and/or service delivery excellence. You are seen as a role model in the community:

• Have a broad business skill set including stakeholder management, problem-solving, and resilienc
• Have experience in gathering, validating, synthesizing, documenting, and communicating data and information for a range of audiences
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and strong written and verbal communication skills in country’s official language(s) (C2 proficiency) and English (C2 proficiency), project-related mobility/willingness to travel

• Proven experience on end-to-end delivery working as a S/4Hana Program Manager
• Experience in liaising with stakeholders in senior client positions
• Deep understanding of ERP project methodologies, phases and activities
• Experience in delivering good governance of ERP implementations, including in risk mitigation, dependency management and effective programme planning
• Significant experience in one of the three industries: Consumer Goods, Retail or Logistics
• Ability to articulate and present different points-of-views on various technologies and how they can deliver value to the business.

Benefits

About your team

Our CRL (Consumer Goods, retail & Logistics) practice helps some of the largest global firms and most recognizable local brands solve their biggest challenges in today’s age of constant disruption. With diverse services spanning growth strategy and new product innovation, to omni-channel customer experience, supply chain resiliency and AI-driven new business models, we help clients shape and achieve their growth agenda for a sustainable future. We transform traditional organizations to digitally centric business models and drive new revenue streams.

About Infosys Consulting

Be part of a globally renowned management consulting firm on the front-line of industry disruption and at the cutting edge of technology.  We work with market leading brands across sectors. Our culture is inclusive and entrepreneurial. Being a mid-size consultancy within the scale of Infosys gives us the global reach to partner with our clients throughout their transformation journey.

Our core values, IC-LIFE, form a common code that helps us move forward. IC-LIFE stands for Inclusion, Equity and Diversity, Client, Leadership, Integrity, Fairness, and Excellence.

Within Europe, we are recognized as one of the UK’s top firms by the Financial Times and Forbes due to our client innovations, our cultural diversity and dedicated training and career paths. Infosys is on the Germany’s top employers list for 2023. Management Consulting Magazine named us on their list of Best Firms to Work for. Furthermore, Infosys has been recognized by the Top Employers Institute, a global certification company, for its exceptional standards in employee conditions across Europe for five years in a row.

We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits, along with top training and development opportunities so that you can grow your career and achieve your personal goals. Curious to learn more? We’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

S4 HANA Manager - Plan to Produce
Consumer Goods, Retail & Logistics practice

Senior Principal & Principal levels

You want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You'll be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of 300.000 employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset. Are you ready?

Requirements

• Delivery of S/4HANA enabled transformation programmes - specialising in Manufacturing and production planning
• Designing end-to-end solutions and ensuring all deliverables produced by your team are consistent with best practice design principles, standards and methodologies 
• Leading client workshops covering a range of topics including process design, industry best practices and bring SME knowledge in your chosen area of expertise
• Building end to end solution based on client requirements, and documenting functional specifications where a development object is required
• Deep expertise in MRP, Recipe Management, Production planning and Material Management

About You

You design and manage complete enterprise solutions. You demonstrate leadership of topics in the architect community and show a passion for technology and business acumen. You work as a stream lead at CIO/CTO level in a major client organization. You will lead Infosys Consulting operations relating to market development and/or service delivery excellence. You are seen as a role model in the community:

• Have a broad business skill set including stakeholder management, problem-solving, and resilienc
• Have experience in gathering, validating, synthesizing, documenting, and communicating data and information for a range of audiences
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and strong written and verbal communication skills in country’s official language(s) (C2 proficiency) and English (C2 proficiency), project-related mobility/willingness to travel

• Demonstrable experience of delivering S/4HANA-based solutions in PP/Shop floor System architecture, and MRP
• Integration with best-of-breed application is desirable.
• Strong client-facing skills and ability to lead a workstream through all phases of SAP implementation
• Flexibility, adaptability, and process improvement approach
• A strong track record of professional success, preferably in the Consulting Services arena

Benefits

About your team

Our CRL (Consumer Goods, retail & Logistics) practice helps some of the largest global firms and most recognizable local brands solve their biggest challenges in today’s age of constant disruption. With diverse services spanning growth strategy and new product innovation, to omni-channel customer experience, supply chain resiliency and AI-driven new business models, we help clients shape and achieve their growth agenda for a sustainable future. We transform traditional organizations to digitally centric business models and drive new revenue streams.

About Infosys Consulting

Be part of a globally renowned management consulting firm on the front-line of industry disruption and at the cutting edge of technology.  We work with market leading brands across sectors. Our culture is inclusive and entrepreneurial. Being a mid-size consultancy within the scale of Infosys gives us the global reach to partner with our clients throughout their transformation journey.

Our core values, IC-LIFE, form a common code that helps us move forward. IC-LIFE stands for Inclusion, Equity and Diversity, Client, Leadership, Integrity, Fairness, and Excellence.

Within Europe, we are recognized as one of the UK’s top firms by the Financial Times and Forbes due to our client innovations, our cultural diversity and dedicated training and career paths. Infosys is on the Germany’s top employers list for 2023. Management Consulting Magazine named us on their list of Best Firms to Work for. Furthermore, Infosys has been recognized by the Top Employers Institute, a global certification company, for its exceptional standards in employee conditions across Europe for five years in a row.

We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits, along with top training and development opportunities so that you can grow your career and achieve your personal goals. Curious to learn more? We’d love to hear from you. Apply today!