Job Title: Assistant Manager- Treasury Reporting & Controls (Back Office)

Location: Bengaluru

ABOUT UNILEVER:

Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life – giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.

ABOUT UNIOPS:

Unilever Operations (UniOps) is the global technology and operations engine of Unilever offering business services, technology, and enterprise solutions. UniOps serves over 190 locations and through a network of specialized service lines and partners delivers insights and innovations, user experiences and end-to-end seamless delivery making Unilever Purpose Led and Future Fit.

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job:

Unilever world’s most successful, purpose-led business looking for strengthening its future-fit team to drive sustainable business through superior performance, consistently delivering financial results in top third of our industry.

UniOps (Erstwhile Unilever Enterprise & Technology Solutions (ETS)) is a global business unit that will manage the company’s shared business services, made up of HR Services, Finance Transactions, IT services, Information Management Services and Workplace Services.

Mission - To provide excellent services globally which enable Unilever to win in the market by

putting the business’ goals at the heart of what we do

leveraging cost-effective, best practice, global solutions across Unilever to meet users’ needs

making continuous improvement in both cost and service an integral part of our way of working

building a professional services organisation that enables our people to give their best

developing win-win relationships with selected providers to meet our current and future requirements.

The key benefits from UniOps are expected to be:

Lower cost of delivery through standardisation, simplification, process harmonisation & scale leverage.

Better user experience by delivery of integrated service bundles to end-user.

Continuous improvement through end-to-end process ownership.

Within the service catalogue of UniOps, Commercial Experience organisation is responsible for the management and delivery of finance and supplier services globally, both through third-party outsourced providers (e.g., IBM, Capgemini) and through in-sourced operations.

The treasury reporting and control back-office team is part of treasury expertise operations with in larger Commercial Experience organisation is responsible for all settlements, reconciliations, and management of all Treasury related banking activities at Unilever. Back Office also takes care of monthly current account interest rates management and settlement of all intercompany entities within Unilever with the inhouse bank. In addition, the team is also responsible for maintenance, monitoring and critically controlling any new bank account additions to the Treasury system. It is also responsible for Sox and other process controls by constantly assessing the risk to Unilever and maintaining Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between the inhouse bank and the operating entities in Unilever.

 Key activities summary: Managing Treasury Back Office

Responsible on daily basis to ensure OTIF settlements of all outstanding items that include

Bonds and Commercial Papers settlements including periodic interest settlements

FX derivatives with external counterparties

Intercompany settlements like loans, interests, payments, derivates

Intra entity bank to bank transfers

Matching and confirmations of derivatives with counterparties

Daily Bank reconciliations to match all cashflows from the Treasury system to the bank statements and ensure all timely resolution of all open items.

Monthly current account interest settlement between the inhouse bank and the operations entities including hedging of the interest in the inhouse bank

SLA creation for new entities under cash-pool model and maintenance of existing SLAs

System setup and maintenance of clients and counterparties, MT940 interfaces, bank account setups

Regulatory reporting of derivatives like EMIR

Support Projects for Treasury Reporting and Controls

Main Accountabilities

On time and in full settlements and confirmations of all Treasury transactions (zero tolerance to error)

Daily reconciliations of all treasury related bank accounts maintaining zero open items

Monthly accounting and hedging of interest on current accounts

Monthly reconciliations and resolutions of all intercompany mismatches between inhouse bank and operating entities.

Monitoring and correcting fallouts on automated intercompany settlements

Completing all audits with zero non-conformances for internal, external, SOX audits 

Resolution on all open queries on operating counterparties with inhouse bank.

Resources –Individual Contributor. May manage 1 or 2 resources

Key Contacts – Global Front office, UL countries and their Treasury personnel that are serviced by Global Treasury BO, Business Partners, 3P service providers, External and internal auditors.
 

Key Skills required

Business partnering skills while ensuring service mindset within the team

Ability to apply professional knowledge in developing better robust processes.

Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret problems / data gathered from a variety of sources.

Assertive and pro-active attitude and cultivates a willingness to learn and teach within the team

Maintain a high-performance culture within the team with high bias for action

Demonstrated ability to work with a range of technically and culturally diverse people

Ability to work under pressure and within strict non-negotiable timelines

Ability to take quick and correct actions in emergency situations

Demonstrated ability to successfully contribute multiple projects & competing priorities in a time sensitive environment.

Relevant Experience

Min 5 years of experience in Investment Banking / Large Corporate Treasury/ Group Financial Reporting/Banking Teams  

Minimum Professional qualification of CA/MBA; additional CFA qualification is preferred.

Working knowledge of Wallstreet Treasury Suite is desirable but not mandatory

Strong on MS Excel and MS Power point

Strong on Stakeholder Management

Should be self-driven and the ability to translate vision into actions

Demonstrated ability of working in a complex environment with global stake holders

At HUL, we believe that every individual irrespective of their race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, nationality, caste, disability or marital status can bring their purpose to life. So apply to us, to unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make the world a better place. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you!