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To carry out the internal audit across the company over the systems/procedures and to suggest best practices for improvement of controls.

To ensure that group accounting policies and procedures are understood and observed, report deviations if any.

Main Accountabilities

• Prepares control matrix/flow chart for the audit activity
• Prepares audit scope, audit program for the various process/ functions/ locations
• Carries out audit test in line with the audit program
• Carries out spot checks on various activities
• Follow up on exceptions raised by Corporate Audit
• Supports external auditors with Control Assessment Report
• Shares responsibility with the other members of the audit team for the achievement of internal audit targets

Critical success Factors for the Job

Key Skills

Relevant Experience

• 2-3 years financial/ audit experience is desirable
• Graduate in Accounting, levels of professional accounting exams
• Good communication skills
• Quick learner
• There will be 6 months on the job training which will help the person understand the business and the audit process.
• Intermediate excel and word skills

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• As a member of the Finance Function, you are responsible for ensuring that depreciation charge for the period is captured in the general ledger for every month of the year.
• You are also to ensure that Capex for the acquisition of assets are properly authorised & approved. You would also pull together commercial case for projects that requires it.
• Your role is also to track all capital work-in progress and ensure that completed projects are duly capitalised every quarter to reflect the asset position of the business.
• You are to identify idle assets in the business and initiate action for provision and subsequent disposal.
• You would also ensure that the Fixed Asset Register is clean by carrying out Assets Physical Verification exercise of highlight redundant & obsolete asset for subsequent approval for disposal
• Your role would also carry out post mortem appraisal for all Capex above the specified benchmark

Main Accountabilities

Depreciation charge for every month.

• Calculate depreciation and upload; input the depreciation codes and then post to the relevant Business ERP
• Check to ensure it agrees with local output and have it signed off.
• Reconcile year-to-date depreciation on the relevant Business ERPs and GL

Functional Assets

• Confirm the amount to be accrued by contract with Treasury
• Match actual payment to accrued amount and write-back any over or under accrual to the ledger
• Reconcile the account and highlight any overpayment or double payment being done on each contract.

Capex

• Ensure Capex raised is within approved budget.
• Do commercial case for all capexes that requires it
• Send for Approval by two Exco members and the CEO.
• Track all expenditure for each project by using the Capex unique number for all payments within the Ledger.
• Prompt for overspent where it’s exceeding approved overspend percentages
• Initiate and extract all expenditure on all completed projects to project manager for capitalisation process.
• Post to the ledger capitalised projects by class of asset. Then do the same in the relevant Business ERP by detail asset item and by class of asset. Ensure all journals are duly approved

Disposal

• Extract from Business ERPs assets identified to be disposed /write off and obtain permission to dispose off asset
• Completer asset disposal from the relevant Business ERP into P/L on disposal with the cash proceeds.

Physical Verification of Assets

• Classify and register all Business Assets by Location
• Identify assets to register records and classify if existing or not including red tagged assets, redundant assets, obsolete assets etc
• Investigate and initiate process for obsolete assets to be disposed off or written off.

Fixed Assets Reconciliation

• Manage end to end the Asset reconciliation process and reconcile with system provisions
• Complete the Fixed asset schedule as the summary of the reconciliation by class of asset

Critical success Factors for the Job

Key Skills

Relevant Experience

• 2-3 years experience
• Graduate in Accounting, levels of professional accounting exams
• Good communication skills
• Quick learner
• Intermediate excel and word skills

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To carry out the internal audit across the company over the systems/procedures and to suggest best practices for improvement of controls.

To ensure that group accounting policies and procedures are understood and observed, report deviations if any.

Main Accountabilities

• Prepares control matrix/flow chart for the audit activity
• Prepares audit scope, audit program for the various process/ functions/ locations
• Carries out audit test in line with the audit program
• Carries out spot checks on various activities
• Follow up on exceptions raised by Corporate Audit
• Supports external auditors with Control Assessment Report
• Shares responsibility with the other members of the audit team for the achievement of internal audit targets

Critical success Factors for the Job

Key Skills

Relevant Experience

• 2-3 years financial/ audit experience is desirable
• Graduate in Accounting, levels of professional accounting exams
• Good communication skills
• Quick learner
• There will be 6 months on the job training which will help the person understand the business and the audit process.
• Intermediate excel and word skills

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The CD Finance Officer’s primary responsibility is to provide management decision support to ensure we maximize the return on our CD investments and to contribute to value creation through Customer Development Function.

The CD Finance Officer w orks primarily with the Customer Development Team (composed of channel and customer/channel marketing directors) and from time to time with Area Managers, Customer/Distributor Managers, Group Customer/Channel Marketing Managers, Customer/Channel Marketing Managers, and Field Execution Managers

The CD Finance Officer is also responsible for oversight of the Order to Cash Process and working with various stakeholders to drive efficiencies and transparency in the O2C process with the aim of keeping overdue debt levels within targets.

Main Accountabilities

• Trade, Channel & Customer Strategy and Business Planning:
• Partners with CD to ensure CD plans are aligned to the Integrated Business Planning process of Unilever
• Brand, Customer & Channel Audits – Leads and consolidates CD Finance auditinputsto be incorporated into the overall Finance Audit for BMP and for CD Finance inputs to Channel, Trade Category Plans (TCP) and Customer/Distributor Business Plans. CD Finance inputs to the audits are: trade marketing investment (TTS+TA&P) analysis, promotion and customer/trade marketing activity effectiveness evaluations and learnings, customer/channel profitability (Gold, Silver, Bronze), trade/retailer profitability, competitive trade profitability, trade value chain, CCFOT analysis, debtor days performance and summary of opportunities and issues to help shape channel and overall brand/category strategies. Ensures customer & channel audits include insights from shopper research and retail trends.
• Jobs-to-be-Done (J2BD) Setting – participates in the J2BD setting process of trade/channel strategy planning to ensure objectives are measurable and aligned to financial targets in the Annual/Stretch Plan, CD SIA and alignment to the BMP/NCBP.
• Think Big & Think Tight – Ensure proposed channel and customer proposals are strategically aligned, deliver brand, customer and shopper benefits;
• Integrate – Aligns with BB Finance partners and with the Integrated Business Planning team to ensure that channel, shopper and brand inputs are integrated into a common plan for action. Once the BMP & TCP are finalized and fed into the Annual/Stretch Plan, reviews consolidated budgets and approves per area/channel and/or customer budgets before CD budgets are released to Field; Ensures CD’s annual budgets have clear priorities and KPIs.
• Sets the tone over Trade Terms and Trade Marketing Investment Management
• Strategic Alignment : Ensures CD promotions are integrated and aligned with the category and channel J2BD;
• Effectiveness : Ensures trade marketing investment create value for Unilever driving accountability and deliver of business results (Win With Customers); Includes driving differentiated trade marketing investments across the channels (Strategic Investing for Growth)
• Efficiency : drives opportunities for spending efficiencies to ensure accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of trade funds management processes; Ensures minimal to zero write-backs and promotions are fully funded; Includes establishing avenues to provide CD with visibility over status of spend and budgets;
• Technology Foundation & Delivery : Ensure full utilization and improvements to OPSO Light Plus (promo funds management system) deliver timely and relevant trade terms spend monitoring and visibility over effectiveness of trade/ customer marketing spend;
• SCOA Compliance : Drives compliance of activity terms and promo spend to Customer Standard Chart of Accounts (CSCOA) and Global Trade Terms Policy.
• Forecasting : develop CD and CD Finance’s capability to forecast CD-led TTS and TA&P spend (from quarter to 6 months to 12-18 months); Accountable for ensuring forecast accuracy and zero bias (at aggregate category and brand spend level)
• Dynamic Resource Allocation : Ensures monies are available to channels/customers/categories which need it the most; Regularly reviews and aligns spend to category performance, especially variable terms/investments;
• Budget Control : Approves budget addendum (add, reduction, transfers) and facilitates budget asks of CD to S&OP and/or Category Boards
• Training : accountable for step changing CD capability in SIFG and (finance-related) WwC agenda. Drive development of training programs/material on Global Trade Terms Policy Awareness, CSCOA/Customer P&L, Promo Evals/OPSO framework, ROI Training, and Trade (retailer) Profitability Training.
• Ensures CD delivers a positive return on trade marketing investment by establishing the OPSO (Optimizing Promotional Sell-Out) Framework in CD:
• KPI Setting : Promotions contain clear measurable qualitative and financial KPIs linked to Business results (ie. TO growth, ROI, Forecast Accuracy);
• Evaluation : Establish formal avenues and processes that enable regular review and approval of promotions, fully supported with a clear business case (pre-evaluation); Ensures 50% to 90% of promotions (TTS Business Building, CPP & PE spend) are
• evaluated regularly and that a minimum of 10 percentage points improvement in ROI is delivered year-on-year;
• Technology Foundation & Delivery : Ensures consistency of the use of a common tool for evaluations and properly documented through a common platform (e.g. OPSO Light Plus) used by finance partners and all relevant CD functional teams (e.g. CMD and CMD);
• Sharing of Learnings : Drives a common process across CD to to review and share learnings.
• Continuous Improvement : Drives improvement in execution of future promotions based on learnings drawn from past promotions.
• Pricing
• Supports overall price setting process by incorporating trade profitability insights to pricing decisions
• Reviews compliance of CD to pricing actions.
• Results Reporting and Analysis:
• Prepares and analyzes Trade spend on assigned categories and channels on an accurate, relevant and timely manner to provide visibility to the Board and CDLT over trade marketing spend against budget and forecast
• Reports to the CDLT (and to the Board as needed) customer performance, including distributor profitability.
• Systems Development Support
• Works with IT and business partners to support development of systems and technologies that will enable key innovative business partnering processes.
• Order to Cash Process Oversight and Management
• Drives efficiencies in A/R Management process through process change by working with cross functional process owners and stakeholders.
• Interface with Customers and CD on key A/R matters and agree with customers on ways on working with respect to A/R reconciliations.
• Ensure that like to like matching of promotions deductions v. commitments.
• Drive transparency of key KPIs in Order to Cash Process and hold stakeholders accountable for the delivery of KPIs.

Key Interfaces

• CD Leadership Team
• Finance Leadership Team
• BB Finance
• Category Team(s)
• ULP Board of Directors

Critical success Factors for the Job

Key Skills

Relevant Experience

• Intermediate to Advanced Accounting/Finance Skills
• Advanced Financial Analysis Skills
• Business Partnering Soft Skills
• Working Knowledge of Innovative Business Partnering (IBP) Tools
• Graduate of any Business Course, with Finance and Accounting units
• Up to 2 years category/customer management accounting experience (as Assistant Manager)
• Exposure and actual experience on customer management is an advantage