Experienced Finance Executive Vacancy at Unilever

Overview:

Unilever is hiring an experienced Finance Executive at their Bangalore location. This role assist the Commercial Experience (ComEx) VMO Lead in Contract & Commercial management activities, including Supplier relationships, publishing contract insights, enabling strategy development, performance management and savings across Uniops ComEx contracts. Working collaboratively with Procurement, Service Lines, Finance, to ensure E2E connectivity for all Vendor relations.

The complete details of this job are as follows:

What will you be doing:

Coordinate the change to a new proactive operating model, building collaboration across functions to maximize value from our supplier spend.

Be the engine that amplifies delivery of value from a new Collaborative Procurement Model that plans supplier decisions much further ahead, across whole areas of spend rather than individual contracts, and ensures best alignment with our business strategies.

Assure the performance and compliance of suppliers and will ensure that we have the right data to deliver ever more value year on year.

Provide end-to-end orchestration, and governance of vendor management activities across UniOps.

Coordinate the change to a new proactive operating model, building collaboration across functions to maximize value from our supplier spend.

Be the engine that amplifies delivery of value from a new Collaborative Procurement Model that plans supplier decisions much further ahead, across whole areas of spend rather than individual contracts, and ensures best alignment with our business strategies.

Assure the performance and compliance of suppliers and will ensure that we have the right data to deliver ever more value year on year.

Provide end-to-end orchestration, and governance of vendor management activities across UniOps.

Closely partner with service line, Finance, and procurement teams to support the contract management for Commercial Experience (ComEx).

Ensure 3rd party budgets, costs and suppliers are optimally managed, highlighting risks as needed.

Continuously improve relationship to drive value for Unilever and supporting the strategic relationships.

Accountable for tracking and managing the 3rd Party Budget & Spend across all Contracts working with VMO & SL Leadership, Service owners, SL Finance teams & FBP’s

Billing Validation, dispute resolution, approvals, and reporting and proactively seeks to deliver savings across ComEx Contracts

Performance management: KPI tracking, governance, and independent Dispute resolution for ComEx strategic vendors

Lead market-based Cost baseline and benchmarking for respective contracts

Contract management: Obligation management, contract insights and analytics, support procurement, service line in defining overall ComEx contract strategy

Monitors Supplier spend and carries out Billing Validation & booking of monthly charges. Validates the billing for accuracy and plugs any value leakages. (Validates for discrepancies in scope, rates, volumes, Fx adjustments, penalties, rewards) and books the charges as applicable.

Manages the forecasting for respective service line and perform forecast vs actual analysis

Ensures timely creation of PO’s and Drives adherence of No PO No Pay policy and POT (Payment on Time) target achievement with business entities and service providers

Manages supplier performance at the ‘aggregate level’ across all services delivered by the specific Service Providers.

Ensures that the service providers resolve commercial and performance related issues that impact their aggregated service delivery.

Leads Contract Compliance and Commercial review meetings with suppliers and key UniOps stakeholders regularly to monitor progress against issues and to ensure that an agreed level of performance is maintained.

Hold supplier and stakeholders accountable to minimize value leakage on account of non-compliance to contractual obligations.

Ensures that quantitative and qualitative data is collected and analysed to monitor the suppliers’ performance against agreed requirements, publishes the results, and initiates actions based on results. Publishes the results of performance and service improvement reviews.

Carries out Consumption analytics to identify insights related to cost drivers and identifies optimization opportunities

Owns the contract change management process to efficiently manage ongoing changes to scope, commercials. Ensures timeliness and accuracy.

Drives continuous improvement and Innovation initiatives. Contributes to Supplier strategy board activities and Key commercial initiatives in line with the org objectives from time to time.

Reviews SLAs and extensions to existing SLAs. Liaises regularly with service providers and customers to review and improve performance against SLA.

Highlight risks and escalate to VMO leads / other channels when necessary

Participate / Lead in larger VMO initiates and land “TO BE” state for VMO.

Qualifications for this Job:

At least 3 years’ experience of contract management in a global organisation, with a strong track record of contract, vendor and commercial management.

Experience of partnering / governance cross a complex stakeholder landscape.

Strong commercial / excel skills.

A strong team player, with the ability to grow effective relationships across a complex organisation.

Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).

Attention to detail, supported by sound financial and analytical understanding.

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