Procurement Accountant, West Africa at Unilever

by Sammy April 20, 2023

published by Sammy April 20, 2023

Job ID: R-62267

Main Job Purposes

The Procurement Accountant, WA is a member of the West Africa Finance Excellence Team and will play a key role in material performance management.
As engine of the business, the role takes responsibility for end-to-end material financial forecast process and champions procurement value creation alignment with the needs of the various markets to meet the West Africa profitability agenda.

About FET

The Finance Excellence Team works above the market (as a regional team)
We have 3 management entities forming the West Africa business unit (Nigeria, Ghana and Francophone Africa, with base in Cote d’Ivoire).
The FET is responsible for business performance, budget and forecast across all 3 markets.

Our team purpose:

To be an agile, tech savvy and trusted business partner
Leveraging business acumen, data insight and influencing skill to make the right decisions.
To elevate business performance and business outcomes.

Main Accountabilities
Procurement Cycle Forecast:

Champion price update from Procurement to be considered for the cycle (contract price, landing price, FX, reflection of replenishment or consumption price decision)
Drive price variance commentary from procurement and planning between forecast cycle and year-on-year
Support Central (offshore) material costing – to be updated quarterly
Data cost hygiene review and correct interface; check for material standard cost estimation in SAP.

S&OP and Financial Forecast cash up:

Ensure correct interface of procurement cycle forecast PCE in cash up ERP Oracle GCUT
Material cost input for country material adjustment (CMA)
Reflect latest appropriate price for key materials in Forecast, where advised due to material change in price and FX.
Prepare and share along with S&OP financial deck material cost assumption – opportunities and risk areas in the forecast (ARO), variance current forecast vs Previous and prior year.

Month end closing and performance management:

Identify top pareto material across all market.
Top material cost monitoring and reporting, cost accuracy and performance review across WA
Overall material cost performance actual vs forecast commentary.

Control and governance:

Purchase price variance (PPV ) monthly review, governance and control framework compliance (GFCF & E-GRC)
Overall GFCF material price related compliance (MTD C4.4; MTD C1.7; MTD C1.9; MTD C7.1)
Business partnering and value moment.
Monthly material savings review and performance tracking (SRS saving reporting system)
Risk and opportunity analysis and business update
Business and procurement update on material movement year on year and cycle vs cycle NMI/NMCI/FX/Saving/CMA.

Relevant Experience/ Skills

University graduate
3 to 5 years’ experience in Performance Management/ Management Accounting
Experiencing working with SAP, Oracle PBCS GCUT or similar accounting software
Experience in FP&A, Factory Accounting, Supply Chain Finance
Storytelling, data visualising and presentation skills
Strong Excel and financial Modelling skills (PowerBI dashboard developing will be a plus)
Professional accounting qualifications (CPA/ACCA/CIMA)
To be Fluent in English (French will be a plus).

Key Interfaces:

Leadership Behaviours:

Have passion for high performance and ability to drive business performance using insight to drive decision.
Have strong process design and optimisation skills , being able to design and re-engineer core process flows with effective control.
Have demonstrated stakeholders’ management skills to ensure maintaining great relation with people having impact and interest in your job
have ability to clearly prioritise work for effective job delivery.
Have effective communication skills enabling to produce creative, compelling content that engages the audience to make impact and influence.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Unilever on unilever.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com to apply