Latest Job Openings At Unilever Nigeria Plc

January 9, 2025 Nnenna Jobs 9

Latest Job Openings At Unilever Nigeria Plc

Unilever Nigeria Plc – Welcome to Unilever, a global multinational and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company with products sold in over 190 countries and more than 2 billion consumers across the world who use our amazing products everyday!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

1.) Business Integrity Officer – 1UL and BI PMO

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time
Function: Legal Business Integrity
Work Level:  WL2A
Reports to: Business Integrity Officer – Personal Care & 1UL
Scope: 1UL Countries

Job Purpose

  • The Business Integrity Officer – 1UL & Global BI Project Manager Officer (“BIO”) works alongside with a senior member of the Business Integrity (“BI”) team to provide ethics and compliance leadership and support to all countries comprising the cluster internally called as “1 Unilever”, covering markets in Latin America, Europe, all of Africa and parts of Asia.
  • The BIO supports the business leaders of 1UL, as owners of Code and business integrity risks inherent in their operations, to identify and mitigate these by reference to the Code and the tools that govern relations between Unilever and third parties.
  • The BIO helps manage the Business Integrity Committees of the 1UL group, provides advice to the business on how to act within the Code, conducts risk assessments and trainings and supports investigations. Additionally, the BIO project manage key BI global projects led by other members of the BI team and assists in the running of the global BI team.
  • The BIO reports to the Business Integrity Officer – Personal Care & 1UL based in London, UK. In their role of PMO they will have dotted line to other senior members of the Global BI Team as required.

Main Responsibilities

  • Supporting Business Integrity Committees; share trends, better practices, and lessons learned; and provide advice to leaders.
  • Promoting speak-up across the organisation and help employees raise concerns appropriately.
  • Supporting the execution of the global learning plan, including mandatory and strategic non-mandatory training.
  • Working with stakeholders to assure third party compliance program, e.g., due diligence, red flag mitigation, is implemented efficiently and effectively.
  • Lead, participate or collaborate where required in the different risk assessments and audits.
  • Leading or supporting investigations as required from time to time in collaboration with the BI Investigations Group and other members of the team, although it is not the primary responsibility of the role.
  • Provide advice and oversight to assigned investigators to matters concerning 1UL countries e.g., BI, HR, Finance, Operations to assure quality of process and outputs.
  • Escalate matters as appropriate, provide recommendations on sanctions and mitigation actions; assure accountability, consistency, and timely execution of corrective actions.
  • Be the project manager for selected key global projects and for the running of the global BI team.
  • Be an active contributor for the continuous enhancement of the Business Integrity programme.

Key Requirements & Experiences

  • Bachelor’s Degree is required. Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field (law, business, compliance, etc) is an advantage.
  • Minimum of 7 years of experience in related areas.
  • Knowledge and experience in business integrity risk areas, e.g., US FCPA, UKBA, and major bribery laws and regulations.
  • Demonstrated experience in a similar role in multinational corporation(s).
  • Proven experience in conducting investigations in various areas like fraud, bribery, conflicts of interest, embezzlement, theft, etc.
  • Experience in effective management and monitoring of 3rd party compliance risks.
  • Experience on project management or central team’s management support (e.g. on a chief of staff type of role)
  • Strong reputation for integrity.
  • Focus on internal customers’ needs, ability to provide practical recommendations and solutions.

Skills:

  • Solid influencing and interpersonal skills in a matrix organization.
  • Good problem-solving skills, resilience, and logical thinking, ability to evaluate and simplify complex issues.
  • Ability to exercise good and independent judgment.
  • Managerial courage – ability to raise potentially sensitive and tense issues when needed to all levels of managers.
  • Awareness of the current broader ethical agenda including sustainability, social responsibility, etc.
  • Fluent in English. Proficiency in Spanish, Arabic or French is an advantage.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate to all levels in the company.

Application Closing Date
22nd January, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

2.) SC Finance Manager

Job Requisition ID: R-16936
Location: Iganmu, Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Function: Finance
Reports to: SC Finance Manager -EWA
Scope: EWA+NG
Terms & Conditions: Full time, Permanent

Job Purpose

  • Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow.
  • You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you.
  • The SC Finance Production Manager will partner with the local SC, procurement, and category finance team to execute the Supply Chain Finance operational and Strategic plan for EWA which should enable the business to win and grow.

Responsibilities
What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be:

  • Drive a cost competitive Supply Chain organisation through Sourcing Unit cost optimization
  • Drive delivery of controllable costs by reducing the Cost Per Ton (Net Productivity)
  • Deliver the business waste reduction programme for Ghana Production sites
  • Review, challenge and monitor all Capital Expenditure proposals (CEP) per the annual budget.
  • Drive Ops to deliver the R/ton expectations across Ghana Factory and the savings on Production Indirects.
  • Drive alignment of benchmark costs and efficiencies across Sourcing Units.

Steer Business Performance and provide Decision support:

  • Provide accurate and relevant business insights by analysing available info using designated best practice tools
  • Drive and Coordinate the forecasting process to help the business make reliable decisions, includes budget, financial forecasts, etc
  • Drive optimal return on investments by driving focus on Capital Expenditure Proposals with Business Cases that meet the required benchmarks
  • Guide and support the delivery of key projects in the pipeline, whilst actively ensuring that all appropriate government incentives are maximised on.
  • Report on monthly variances giving key insight in what areas need focus and where factory performance was not great.
  • Ensure variance analysis on major stock losses as well as usage variances.

Drive a cost competitive Supply Chain organisation through Sourcing Unit cost optimization:

  • Drive delivery of controllable costs by reducing the Cost Per Ton (Net Productivity)
  • Deliver the business waste reduction programme for Ghana Production sites
  • Review, challenge and monitor all Capital Expenditure proposals (CEP) per the annual budget.
  • Drive Ops to deliver the R/ton expectations across Ghana Factory and the savings on Production Indirect.
  • Drive alignment of benchmark costs and efficiencies across Sourcing Units.

Ensure robust governance and control systems are implemented, maintained and adhered to:

  • Ensure adequate controls and financial hygiene of all areas in Supply Chain, including managing reviews and interaction with auditors during +5 audits during a year.
  • Ensure integrity of balance sheet and income statement with appropriate levels of checks and balances.
  • Drive delivery of timely and accurate reporting requirements
  • Ensure Unilever Standard Chart of Accounts compliance
  • Ensure stock controls compliant with SOX
  • Ensure journals, write offs and provisions are done in accordance with Schedule of Authority.

Manage Production budgets and stock flows and balances:

  • Ensure annual budgets done and standard product costing aligned to global product costing guidelines for Unilever factories.
  • Ensure master data information is updated correctly for products sourced from 3P/ Collaborative Manufacturing sites
  • Variance analysis of budget/forecast over and under spends done monthly.
  • Drive stock take process and variance analysis of waste.
  • Ensure SAP stock errors are understood and corrected.
  • Drive cost reductions in order to meet R/ton targets.
  • Drive stock days on hand down through analysis and reporting.
  • Manage stock in various locations on site and off site at third parties.
  • Provide financial business cases for different options of sourcing.
  • Ensure material usage variance analysis is happening and be able to report on variances for the month

Landing Productivity:
A key success criterion for the role is to ensure that productivity is landed. This includes:

  • Recruitment: Recruiting and nurturing the team directly reporting to the role (if needed)
  • Communication: Communicating clearly with stakeholders what finance will and will not do as part of new operating model
  • Training & Handover:  For activities being transferred to business, ensure that the knowledge transfer is adequately done to the business partners.
  • Simplification: Identifying activities that represent complexity or excessive business partnering
  • Reporting: Reduce ad hoc reporting and support standardisation of reports. This will be very important deliverable for the SCF manager and will require liaison with other SCF leads within 1 UL markets to develop standard reports that serve most of the performance management and decision support needs.

Experiences & Qualifications & Skills

  • Professional qualification in accountancy – CA or CIMA (or other finance professional qualification) preferably or nearing completion of professional qualification.
  • Min 3-5 years Experience at Factory Supply Chain Finance
  • Min 3-5 years at Management and managing people
  • Ability to steer conversations and influence
  • Leadership skills – able to lead, motivate, inspire
  • Previous experience in SAP (3 years).
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel.
  • Proven track record of being effective in a complex operating environment and driving business performance
  • Strong communication and influencing skills
  • Objectivity and integrity in the face of challenge; courage and personal resilience
  • Ability to build networks and manage multiple senior stakeholders
  • Understanding or ability to quickly grasp financial principles in the end-to-end Supply Chain, identify and drive relevant value-creating choices and decisions
  • Leadership of change – the ability to drive change management initiatives, staying close to best practices and relevant external developments

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 manager, 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:

  • While all SOLs are important, but the ones stated below are critical to the success within this role
  • Business Acumen: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.
  • Passion For High Performance: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
  • 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.

Application Closing Date
16th January, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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  1. The company’s culture of transparency, accountability, and open communication really resonates with me, and I’m excited about the opportunity to be part of a team that values honesty and integrity.”

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  3. “Love the commitment to sustainability and making a positive impact on the environment! Your brands, such as Dove and Ben & Jerry’s, are making a real difference. Keep up the fantastic work!”

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  9. The BIO helps manage the Business Integrity Committees of the 1UL group, provides advice to the business on how to act within the Code, conducts risk assessments

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