The Finance Manager role in the UKI Controllers team is an equally exciting opportunity, challenging, and ultimately rewarding role with key accountabilities that allow you to deliver unquestionable value for the business. The role has three main focus areas: internally on Group reporting and compliance, externally to meet legal and regulatory requirements, and projects.
Requirements
- Work with UKI RTR OC and IBM to ensure timely, high quality financial reporting
- Leadership of the UKI R&D controlling team, ensuring sound financial control
- Involvement in R&D grants process and point of escalation for Source to Pay issues
- Ownership of RTR controls for UKI and ensure they are operating effectively and correctly
- Ensure UKI is compliant with group policies, SCOA compliance and operates according to the GPM
- Monthly and Quarterly review of balance sheet to ensure completeness of numbers reported and compliance to Unilever accounting policies
- Support KPMG group audits for controls testing and YE reporting
- Support corporate audits and SOX audits as and when required
- Input into annual insurance premium calculation and renewal
- Manage access risks to ERP and review/sign off to access control team
- Engagement with management accounting team on month/quarter and year-end to ensure accurate and complete results reporting
- Simplification of legal entity structure, capital reductions and dividend declaration to parent entity
- Month end close, including posting journals, variance analysis and interco. transactions
- Project work including corporate transactions and separations, change driven internally in the business, initiatives from GCAD, change in accounting standards or Group policies, site closures, changes to legislation
- Co-ordination, planning and production of Statutory accounts for UK
- Review base inputs to tax comps for UK and provision of support to tax department as required
- Support ONS/CRO requirements for a variety of returns, covering a range of different measures on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis
- Managing Insurance policies and renewal with our insurance broker
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Pension scheme
- Annual bonus
- Subsidised gym membership
- Discounted staff shop
- Shares
