Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
Unilever Operations (UniOps) aims to transform the experience of working at and doing business with Unilever by simplifying and digitising our operations. Delivering a digitally enabled Future Fit Operation will free up resources and unlock value to deliver Fuel for Growth, one of Unilever's five strategic pillars in 2020. Fuel for Growth is critical to provide the financial flexibility required to invest decisively behind the other Fundamentals. The UniOps goal is to simplify and digitise Unilever's operations by making our global processes and systems more streamlined, better integrated, and easier to work with. This means freeing people's time and talents to focus on customers and consumers for profitable and sustainable growth.
Purpose of the role It's a very exciting time to be part of UniOps, to join & participate in the digitally enabled future-fit business operations . With the ever-growing footprint of UniOps at a rapid pace in the past few years, its equally vital to have a robust financial system, processes, and policy framework to ensure sustainable business operation, which would not only mean solid governance & control on the internal processes but would also mean a holistic assessment of internal and external factors impacting the overall business operations.
The Assistant Manager capex is a key position in financial controlling team of UniOps India where the position would be responsible for leading end to end capex accounting & related compliance of UEIT (Part of legal entity UKCR and represents technology wing of UniOps). The role provides an in-depth experience on software asset accounting, auditing, controls, risk management, SaaS and would be both individual contributor & Team Management (To lead & Manage Senior Executive – Capex) role based in India, reporting to Finance Manager/Controller.
Main Accountabilities
Accounting & Reporting - Accurate and timely financial asset accounting review and reporting on monthly basis.
- Carry out E2E review & management of Fixed assets including Software & SaaS.
- Strong governance & control on Capex including CWIP.
- Ensuring & Reviewing smooth CWIP MEC process which includes CWIP postings, CWIP run & CWIP Ageing report.
- Month end journals governance and review related to FA & CWIP.
- Reviewing FAR as a whole which include Additions, Deletions & Depreciation Postings.
- To Adhere to the policies (APM, GPM) related to FA including Software.
- Annual validation of useful life of assets and related compliance.
- Designing & maintaining robust processes on asset decommissioning.
- Ad hoc reports on Fixed assets on monthly basis.
- Lead & front end all FA & CWIP related requests & Reports.
Risk Management & Controls - Ensure that the Global Financial Controls Framework is embedded & operating on fixed assets.
- Review and compliance of Schedule of Authority pertaining to fixed assets.
- Access Rights coordination – modification, addition, and deletion
- Safe custody of all documents, agreements, deposit receipts etc. pertaining to FA.
- Providing UniOps top management analytical view on FA.
Annual Plan & Monthly forecast - Partner & collaborate on annual capex forecast and related amortization impact.
- Provide updated monthly/quarterly forecast on amortization.
- Variance analysis against budgets and to provide qualitative commentaries.
Process improvement - Review & improve the existing process of service mapping validation & asset decommissioning process.
- Partnering & collaborating with FBPs on amortization cross charges and related improvement.
- Apptio cross charges process alignment.
Statutory & Corporate Audit - Leading the closure of statutory & corporate audit requirements pertaining to fixed assets.
- Partner & collaborate with UEIT FC team to ensure smooth closure of overall audit.
Key Skills/ Experience - MBA, CIMA, Chartered Accountant or equivalent Business Management or Finance degree
- Has 4+ years of relevant experience and cultural awareness to work with a geographically, culturally diverse, and global team
- Experience in managing month end process & management of Fixed assets including Software & SaaS a large/mid-size organisation
- Leadership & people management
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Understanding of risk and controls
- Strong data accuracy skills and attention to detail
- Process simplification/process excellence
- Ability to work fluidly with data and across systems
- Excellent in Microsoft Office suite, including Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Working in multi-national teams and/or a virtual team environment
- Critical thinking
Key Stakeholders - UniOps Controller
- UniOps Chief Accounting Officer
- UniOps ACE Team
- UniOps FET
- UniOps Service line, GPMOs, Apptio team
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