• Finance Analyst at Unilever Nigeria

  work Unilever Nigeria

  placeLagos

  Date Posted: 2018-09-05

  Unilever, a transnational consumer goods company with operations in Nigeria, is hiring a Finance Analyst in Lagos.
  

  Your Main Responsibilities: -

  OVH, BMI and Forecasting

• Management reporting including Financial forecasting/budgeting and longer-term strategic planning processes
• Managing and reporting of OVHs and BMI costs
• Ensure correct bookings of costs in P&L as per SCOA
• Forecast working capital
• Support related budget owners
• Provide assistance in forecasting and other ad-hoc business analysis
• OC Governance, continuous improvement on rule based journals + controls
• Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU

P2P Analysis

• P2P OC Governance, continuous Improvement on P2P Processes + controls
• Working Capital forecasting, reporting and commentary;
• Partnering BMI and Overheads teams with P2P processes
• P2P Metrics – POT (Payment on time), POC (PO Compliance), FPY (First Pass Yield) – working with/ supporting OC with directive to improve metrics
• Approval of urgent/ manual payments
• Query Escalations from business on poor service/ issues after contacting AP helpdesk/ OC/ BCS Agent
• Resolve audit queries which IBM/ OC cannot resolve
• GRNI support
• Provide ad-hoc support to countries within the BU

O2C and credit controls

• Manage customer overdues across all customers
• Improve working capital through management of customer payment performance and trade term compliance
• Manage and mitigate bad debt and minimise bad debt provision
• Work with the shared service teams to ensure effective and aligned communication and deliverables are met
• Worked with shared service teams to ensure that accounts are reconciled correctly, customer statements issued in a timely manner
• Work with shared service and other internal functions to ensure that customer claims are placed in a timely manner and support the resolution of deductions on customer accounts
• Ensure accurate and timely month end reporting
• Support first line investigation and resolution of EDI issues
• Raise manual accruals for CD trade terms
• Prepare and validate rebate review
• Allocate promotional invoices against correct rebates
• Resolve deductions, disputed claims that IBM cannot resolve with the CD team
• Provided support for statutory reporting requirements

Skills, experience and qualifications: -

• A very strong academic record
• Excellent understanding of financial metrics and FFG Financial processes
• Very strong track record of delivery in previous Finance roles
• Very strong work ethic, resilience in the face of pressure, good team player, ability to meet multiple stretching deadlines, great communication skills and excellent attention to detail
• Strong analytical bias and Microsoft Excel skills
• PowerPoint capability

Method of Application

If interested and qualified, click here to apply