CD Finance Business Partner - Modern Trade

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What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be:

Drive Performance Management of Total CBD Spends together with CDF Team

• Prepare financial simulations and analysis to enable informed decision-making, with clear assumptions and recommendations
• Support CDF MT and DT Leads in the preparation of working files for monthly updates to the Business Unit (CSP and MT) leads and to the BU Finance leads
• Prepare financial presentations and submissions for forecasts
• Ensure operational accuracy and monitoring of CBD Spends vs Forecast
• Work closely with CD Operations team in driving spend discipline and hygiene

Provide Decision Support and Timely Analysis on High-Value Business Priorities

• Business Cases for new investments or changes to existing business models
• ROI analysis for changes to customer contracts
• Long-range planning for key customers
• Investment optimization and growth plans for priority customers

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Support CDF MT Lead on driving business performance interventions

• Growth Spotting
• Profitability Improvement
• Spends Optimization and ROMI

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Build deep understanding on customers and channels

• Mastery of financial impact of TTA per customer for the assigned channels and customers
• Serve as the main finance partner for assigned channels and customers
• Ensure budget and plans align to contractual obligations ​
• Drive optimization on non-contractual spends together with partners

Ways of Working & Ownership Expectations:

• Own assigned customer projects and workstreams with end-to-end accountability, translating high-level objectives into structured analyses and decision-ready materials
• Produce clean, well-documented working files that can be reviewed, built upon, or referenced without rework
• Resolve recurring or minor issues independently, applying judgment and prior learnings
• Escalate material risks, deviations, or non-standard issues, with proposed options or recommendations

What Success in This Role Looks Like:

• Delivers accurate, timely, and decision-ready analyses with minimal rework
• Manages assigned customers with confidence, consistency, and sound judgment
• Anticipates recurring issues and applies repeatable solutions
• Enables the CD Finance MT Lead to focus on total direction-setting, complex interventions, and the rest of the MT channels customers.
• Drive optimization on non-contractual spends together with partners

Experiences & Qualifications

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• At least 5 years of experience in Finance
• Basic knowledge of Management Accounting, Reporting, and Budgeting
• Experience in business partnering roles preferred
• Commercial support and decision support (including preparing financial models and ROI analysis)
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision, translating high-level guidance into structured outputs and solutions
• Comfortable managing multiple customers and priorities in a fast-paced, lean environment
• Experience in investment evaluation, analysis and tracking KPIs
• Strong analytical capabilities with bias to drive action
• Advanced skills in Excel

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.