Assistant Financial Accounting

Join us as Assistant Financial Accounting & Reporting Manager

• Location: Grha Unilever
• Terms & Conditions: Full-time role

Job Purpose

In this position, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality statutory reporting in line with the latest local accounting standards. You will act as a trusted expert in accounting, guiding the team and the wider business to stay compliant with both local and global standards.

You will also serve as the main point of contact for external auditors, ensuring smooth collaboration and successful audit outcomes. Beyond compliance, you will help strengthen our financial systems, safeguard data integrity, and drive improvements that make our operations more effective and efficient.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead statutory reporting in accordance with current local accounting standards
• Provide expert guidance on accounting practices and standards
• Ensure compliance with both global and local accounting requirements
• Act as the primary liaison for external audit fieldwork, ensuring successful outcomes with no deficiencies
• Safeguard the integrity of financial systems and operating models, aligned with best accounting practices and audit requirements
• Identify key issues and implement effective solutions through right procedures
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners
• Continuously seek opportunities to simplify processes and improve operational effectiveness
• Support new corporate projects, ensuring financial accounting impacts are well managed
• Escalate and provide support to the Operating Center in matters related to Lease accounting, ensuring compliance and smooth resolution of issues

Experiences & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree: Finance and Accounting.
• Strong Financial Accounting skills with proven knowledge of IFRS and PSAK.
• Prior experience in a Public Accounting Firm, with a minimum level of Senior Associate
• Experience working with large complex data from multiple sources.
• Experience managing local, regional, and global stakeholders.
• Experience in presenting to and communicating with Finance and non-Finance stakeholders.

Skills:

• Resilience (ability to cope with time pressure and challenges).
• High degree of flexibility and ability to quickly understand new topics.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other key stakeholders.
• Strong engagement, presentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to present complex information in a simplified manner.
• Fluent in English both in reading & writing and willingness to learn quickly.

Key Stakeholders:

• VP Finance, Financial Controller, GCAD, COMEX and Internal / External Auditors.

Leadership Skills:

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical Unilever Leadership Behaviors:

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Hungry to win together, prioritizes ruthlessly and owns the outcome.
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Brings their best, whatever the challenge
• CONSUMER & CUSTOMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• AGILITY: Curious, courageous, and adaptable to change. Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.
• PURPOSEFUL IMPACT: Cares deeply about delivering positive impact for business, people, and planet.
• TALENT CATALYST: Inspires people to grow with support and honesty.

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.