Commercial Finance Business Partner

Job Title: Unilever Spain Commercial Finance Business Partner

Location: Viladecans, Barcelona

Strategic Responsibilities

P&L ownership and performance management

• Taking responsibility for the whole P&L of the 3 business units of Beauty, Personal, and Home Care, and the 2 business channels -retail and pharma.
• Monitoring and reporting on key financial and commercial KPIs -revenue, pricing, volume, margin, marketing investment, trade terms-, ensuring agreed targets are met and promotional investments deliver expected returns.
• Leading month-end closing, forecast, and planning activities, analyzing actual vs. plan/forecast/previous year, pointing out flag risks and growth opportunities.
• Elaborating the annual plan in coordination with stakeholders: turnover, product cost, marketing, and investment contributing to business strategic decisions.
• Monitoring performance management KPIs in coordination with marketing, customer development, and supply chain.
• Identify and evaluate business risks and opportunities (commercial, financial, pricing, channel) and support recommended courses of action.
• Provide post-implementation review of key initiatives and promotions: measuring actual results vs plans and extracting learning for future planning

Business partnering

• Building an effective business partner relationship with your internal clients, offering savvy solutions, once you understand business challenges, category idiosyncrasies, retail and pharmaceutical channels, and clients' complexity.
• Acting as a trusted and strategic adviser for finance, marketing and sales teams, providing insight, challenge, guidance on commercial decisions (pricing, promotions, investment), and ensuring alignment of financial strategy.
• Driving continuous improvement, simplification, and automation of finance processes and reporting to enable better decision making and business agility, contributing to shaping the new organization's way of working.
• Work closely and influence and communicate effectively with non-finance stakeholders: translate financial insight into business-friendly language, build trust, drive change.

About You

Skills

• Business passion and genuine curiosity for sales and marketing.
• Excellent commercial acumen & strong business partnering credentials with a proven track record on delivery.
• Owner's mindset towards current business challenges and willingness to shape new growth scenarios.
• Ability and enjoyment to handle complex new situations. Agility in learning and commitment to contribute to One Unilever's new organizational layout and way of working.
• Quickness and reliability in evaluating alternative courses of action, providing data-based solutions.
• Good empathetic listening skills, team player.
• 5 years of experience in business partnering roles in the financial department or in the sales financial controlling area of multinationals.
• A degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics and/or an MSc degree.
• High level of English (C1).

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their 'Whole Self' to work and this includes you Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their 'Whole Self' to work and this includes you Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.