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Business Title: Finance Executive
Location: Mumbai RO
Job Purpose: Financial Reporting is part of a centralised finance team responsible for high‑quality preparation of financial statements, governance over end‑to‑end financial processes, and robust balance sheet management. The role ensures accuracy, timeliness, and compliance of financial reporting while driving process discipline and supporting continuous improvement across the finance control environment. This role manages a small team and works extensively with SAP and related reporting tools, with some use of Power BI for insights and analytics.
Key Accountabilities
+ Lead the preparation, review, and submission of periodic financial statements in line with Unilever policies, local GAAP / IFRS, and internal timelines.
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+ Hold governance over core financial processes (e.g., closing, reconciliations, provisions, accruals, intercompany, fixed assets) to ensure accuracy, completeness, and control.
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+ Own and drive balance sheet hygiene, including regular balance sheet reviews, ageing analysis, and timely resolution of open items.
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+ Coordinate month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end close activities, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.
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+ Review and sign‑off key account reconciliations, ensuring issues are identified, escalated, and resolved promptly.
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+ Use SAP extensively for posting, reporting, analysis, and controls, ensuring data integrity and consistency across systems.
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+ Leverage Power BI (where applicable) to create or enhance dashboards and reports that provide insight into financial performance, balance sheet health, and process KPIs.
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+ Partner with other finance teams (e.g., Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Business Partnering) and relevant business stakeholders to resolve issues and land improvements.
+ Support internal and external audits by preparing audit schedules, responding to queries, and ensuring remediation of audit observations.
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+ Identify opportunities for simplification, standardisation, and automation in financial reporting and control processes, and drive agreed improvements.
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+ Lead, coach, and develop a small team of finance professionals, ensuring clarity of goals, strong performance, and learning opportunities.
Key Interfaces
+ Central Finance / Controllership teams
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+ FP&A / Performance Management
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+ Finance Business Partnering teams
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+ Shared Services / Global Operations (if applicable)
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+ Internal and external auditors
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+ Tax, Treasury, and other specialist finance teams
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+ Critical Experience & Qualifications
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+ Professional qualification preferred (e.g., CA / CMA / ACCA / MBA in Finance) or equivalent finance qualification.
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+ Strong experience in financial reporting, controllership, or related finance roles, ideally in a large or multinational organisation.
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+ Hands‑on experience with SAP (FI/CO or equivalent modules) in a financial reporting or controlling environment.
+ Exposure to reporting/visualisation tools such as Power BI is an advantage.
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+ Experience of managing or coaching team members is preferred.
Key Skills & Competencies
+ Strong technical understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting (local GAAP and/or IFRS).
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+ High attention to detail with a strong control and governance mindset.
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+ Proficiency in SAP for financial postings, reconciliations, and reporting.
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+ Ability to work with and interpret large data sets; familiarity with Power BI or similar tools is a plus.
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+ Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to drive issue resolution across multiple stakeholders.
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+ Good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a centralised / virtual team environment.
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+ Ability to plan and prioritise under tight month‑end and year‑end timelines.
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+ People leadership potential with willingness to coach and develop team members.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
+ Timeliness and accuracy of financial statement submissions.
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+ Quality of balance sheet (ageing, open items, provisions, and reconciliations).
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+ Number and severity of audit observations and timely closure of actions.
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+ Effectiveness of process governance (on‑time close, adherence to controls, KPI performance).
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+ Stakeholder and audit feedback.
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+ Team engagement and performance.
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Job Category: Finance
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Broadly HUL finance offers three streams of roles Finance Business Partnering Developing an understanding of the strategies that drive our growth, you will be at the forefront of how we evolve to meet our goals. We have Finance Business Partners in Category, Supply Chain, Customer Development and the Finance Excellence Team. As an Asst Finance Manager in a Business Partnering role, responsibilities include: Asst Manager - Category Finance: End-to-end P&L responsibility for delivering growth and unlocking profitability improvement, cash up and forecasting; identify opportunities to improve realisation; Drive discussions with category heads on performance management Asst. Manager - Supply Chain Finance: Driving gross margin and savings delivery, managing business waste; Preparing investment business cases with supply chain partners; Working with procurement team to identify areas of opportunity wherein significant value can be unlocked Asst. Manager - Customer Development Finance: Leading performance management at the Branch; Responsible for distributor life cycle partnering - distributor appointments, exits, attrition management, ROI; Operation controls and outliers Asst Manager - Finance Excellence Team: Driving business performance metrics and performance management for Categories. Enabling delivery of business financial targets; Driving forecast process hygiene Controlling Financial Controlling is the fundamental building block of our function. A role here is an opportunity to develop your financial accounting, reporting and control skills as well as providing objectivity and challenge to the business. Working in this team will give you the broad exposure to the rest of the business as you build partnerships as a trusted change agent, actively driving the risk management agenda for the business. You will have the opportunity to develop project management skills and will get exposure to expertise areas such as tax and pensions. As part of the Controllers team you will have the opportunity to either work in one of our Accounting Centres, Financial Reporting or Investor Relations Expertise Expertise roles allow us to create value across our business. They are a great opportunity to enable experiences across the breadth of the business including payroll, insurance and treasury. Deployed well in our business, expertise roles are a major source of value. Understanding of foreign exchange markets and macro-economic factors affecting currency and hands on experience of PF Trust management and employee benefit administration are some of the things you can expect to learn from a role in Expertise.
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