Job Description:

About us

Unilever is proud of its Tea business, the biggest in the world, with world class purpose driven brands such as Lipton, PG tips and Pukka. Recently, Unilever decided to separate the Tea business to ensure it can best achieve its potential. Unilever is currently reviewing several options for separation, including a demerger, an initial public offering, a disposal or through partnership models. The Tea businesses in India and Indonesia, and the partnership interests in the ready-to-drink Tea joint ventures will be retained.

The balance of the Tea brands and geographies and all Tea estates, with generated revenues of €2 billion in 2019, is growing and profitable with proven potential both pre- and post-COVID-19. As a standalone entity, the Tea company remains number one in the world and is even better positioned to lead the industry and take full advantage of the opportunities in the category, with more focus and entrepreneurship driving greater growth and value.

The current vision for the Tea company is to champion a tastier, healthier, more sustainable world of plant-based drinking. Purposeful thinking will be the core anchor of the business, its brands as well as its culture, and enables simple and agile decision making, supports an entrepreneurial mindset and is driven by passion for our consumers.

As we move through this journey towards separation, we are seeking employees with a passion for exciting entrepreneurial experiences, who want to pursue unique career opportunities and have a desire to be an integral part in building the bright future of this plant-based company.

Work location: Dubai, UAE
Job Type: Full Time
Company Vision: To grow a world of wellbeing through the regenerative power of plants.

Company Mission:

A virtuous cycle of growth for everyone connected to our business.
CONSUMER: we will craft winning brands that become the universal beverage of choice: serving only the tastiest products that enrich physical, emotional and social wellbeing.
CLIMATE: we will lead the way and create a net positive, giving back to the planet much more than we take.
COMMUNITY: we will enrich lives by delivering more value per cup and share that value amongst growers, blenders and farming communities.
EMPLOYEES: we will nurture the growth of every employee, maximising learning and impact of every individual.
SHAREHOLDERS: we will lead value creation with sustainable high performance, delivered with transparency and consistency.

Main Purpose of the Role:

This role, working closely with the Gulf & Levant Finance Controller to assist in implementation of Future Fit projects, timely month end closing, help in improvement in working capital, O2C KPI’s and strengthening O2C controls. Additionally, he will be overseeing the employee related claim payments, EOSB payments, assisting in the actuarial valuation for EOSB on yearly basis.

Your Key Tasks:

Debtors Management

• Work closely with CD finance managers of Arabia and Levant to manage debtors by keeping overdue amounts to minimum possible level.
• Monitor Debtors on weekly basis and ensure payments are coming in on time.
• Make provisions for Bad Debts as per company policy (IFRS 9)
• Circulate Debtors report on monthly basis to Finance controller and Finance Director
• Provide comments to O2C global team on over dues on monthly basis
• Yearly review of credit limits for all customers
• Compliance to all receivable controls
• Manage and achieve all O2C KPI’s

TMI-BMI accounting and control:

• Timely Month end closing for TMI and BMI as per Arabia closing timetable.
• Review TMI-BMI provisions on quarterly basis and circulate the same to business
• Ensure to close aged accruals on timely basis
• Monthly reconciliation of TMI-BMI provisions by each legal entity between TB and BW
• Compliance to all TMI/BMI controls

Assist in Driving Future-Fit Ways of Working:

• Assist in driving future fit projects to secure standardisation & documentation of Gulf processes & policies to 1) Improve controls, 2) Drive Efficiency and 3) Pave the way for automation
• Projects include Debit & Credit Note Process Management across countries, assist in setting up BU booklet to help retain knowledge.

Concern Receivables:

• Manage concern receivables and ensure minimum overdues
• Resolve issues with counter parties on regular basis

Statutory and Corporate Audit:

• Handle Corporate, SOX and Statutory Audit for O2C

Team Management:

• Manage in house and outsource team (CapGemini)
• Train and guide the team to perform their tasks with efficiency
• Communicate all changes to CapGemini team on time

Other Tasks:

• Support Media team by providing allocation ratios to be updated in Unify system
• Actively support for any changes in company ERP/other Software
• Support Finance controller on different projects
• Attend monthly governance call meetings with CapGemini
• Support in managing VAR at tolerable level.
• Oversee employee related claims, EOSB payments, review of employee vendor accounts
• Support in all automation projects
• Support in replying to all VAT related queries including VAT Audit

Key competencies & skills:

• Interpersonal Skills
• Information Management
• Decision support & influencing
• Strong Organisational skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Knowledge of PowerApps / Power BI

Key Interfaces:

• Arabia and Levant finance Directors
• 3rd party and Concern Customers
• FET and Business partners
• Supply Chain Finance
• Media team

Our values:

• Sustainability
• Fun loving
• Risk taking ability
• Simple thinking
• Transparent and fair
• Innovative
• Promote diversity
• Ownership and accountability
• Entrepreneurial

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.

Additional Requirements

• Power BI
• Knowledge of PowerApps