B&W Vietnam Finance Business Partner Lead

Term: Local
Travel: Less than 10%

Work Location: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

ABOUT THE ROLE

Reporting to the B&W Greater Asia Performance Lead, the role is responsible for providing business support to the B&W Vietnam Lead in pursuit of achieving sustainable business targets. The role has one direct report.

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.

KEY 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 Vietnam 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 Vietnam.
• 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

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

Leadership

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. 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.
  • AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

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