Procurement Accountant, West Africa at Unilever

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:

• WA Procurement Function (Procurement Director and Manager)
• Central Africa Finance Procurement
• WA SCF Managers and Material Cost Controller
• WA Categories and Finance Business Partners
• WA FET Forecast & Performance Lead
• FET Head, WA.

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.