They will also work on a wide range of complex projects (both finance management and embedding process), managing end to end finances and budget including tracking progress to the forecasts, actuals, change control procedures and quality and risk assessments. The role will play a key part in helping Unilever effectively manage cyber risk across the global organization.

The Finance & Budget Lead Is Expected To

• Manage end to end finance operations, planning and analysis (upto multi millions) including both (BAU and ITIB)
• Work with the various workstream leads and project teams to get an appropriate view of the Financial Forecast and spend view and present a consolidated view.
• Work with Uniops Finance team to arrive at monthly accurate consumptions against the forecast
• Work with the Uniops Finance team to be able to represent an accurate financial forecast across the quarterly financial timelines.
• Work and manage internal team members to constantly have an upto date view of the spends, and a forward view of the upcoming spends.
• Continually identify risks to delivery, propose solutions where necessary and effectively manage stakeholder expectations throughout.
• Work with the project team to review the Business case for the projects and provide feedback.
• Work with the teams to prepare for accurals, GR’s and prepayments.
  
  

Main Accountabilities

• Ensures business processes, administration, and financial management.
• Leads planning and forecasting activities with business partners to achieve the Cyber Security Annual budgets.
• Reviews financial reports like Budget management files, Uniops Performance Dashboard on a monthly basis and discusses the financial variances with other Lead teams.
• Prepares financial forecasts and reviews with the stakeholders.
• Represents Cyber security in forums with Finance and project stakeholders.
• Monitors financial details to ensure compliance with forecasts and allocated Budget
• Assists Senior manager to make financial decisions.
• Help in finding financial efficiency for the department.
• Reviews and processes payments to the vendors on a monthly basis.
• Maintains an accurate filing and record keeping system for all financial statements and company documents like SOW, POs
• Review the Project Business case and provide a first pass on the cost vs. benefit.
• Review the SOWs and provide quality checks
• Track and analyze the benefits mentioned in the business case against the Cyber Security budget
• Team management of other finance team members.
  
  

Skills

Key Skills and Relevant Experience

• Excellent written, verbal and data communication skills and able to be understood by both technical and non-technical.
• Attention to detail
• Strong quantitative skills
• Ability to plan, schedule, prioritise and allocate work effectively, and deliver to multiple and challenging deadline
• Ability to monitor progress against plans
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and multiple tasks.
• Stakeholder management and interpersonal skills at both a technical and non-technical level.
• Able to work in a collaborative environment.
• Ability to drive process teams to understand reporting situation, explores options and come to consensus on preferred solution.
• Good presentation skills.
• Ability to work with internationally located stakeholders.
• Ability to work with vague requirements to build prototypes/sketches and go through multiple iterations before agreeing on a workable solution.
• Sound Financial knowledge, ability to review Business case and articulate business realisation.
• Ability to deliver at pace
• Thoroughness & Adept at analyzing information
• Understanding of confidentiality