Job Openings at Unilever Nigeria Plc

Unilever Nigeria Plc - Welcome to Unilever, a global multinational and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company with products sold in over 190 countries and more than 2 billion consumers across the world who use our amazing products everyday!

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Purchase to Pay Lead, Nigeria

Job Requisition ID: R-62945
Job Location: Oregun, Lagos
Job Type: Full time

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

• As a member of the Finance Function, you are responsible to the Financial Controller for the efficient management of local suppliers.
• Responsible for payments to suppliers as stipulated in the contracts signed by Unilever   and the Supplier.
• Exploit IT systems (Fourth Shift Excel etc) to track suppliers invoices up to payment/filing stage.
• Reconciliation of suppliers’ accounts.

Main Accountabilities

• Payments to suppliers
• Reconciliation of suppliers accounts
• Ensure suppliers accounts are reconciled monthly   
• Issues arising are cleared by end of following month.
• Ensure suppliers are paid within agreed credit terms.
• Identify and address any weakness in the creditor management and accounts payable process
• Ensure the dividend account is reconciled monthly and issues resolved promptly.

Results:

• Make sure all major expenditures are captured in the month in which they occur.
• Ensure a follow up on stale and unpresented cheques.
• Oversee the reconciliation and clearing of long outstanding of IOU’s on the advance account.
• Ensure accruals are made for services rendered without invoices at month ends.
• Provide credible OCF forecast for creditors.
• Ensure that the unvouchered account is reconciled at month end.

Functional Skills
Decision Support:

• Identify and Frame the Issue
• Structure & Integrate Information
• Model & Analyse Data
• Recommend, Communicate and Act on Findings
• Employ Effective Partnering Skills

Steering Business Performance:

• Set Goals
• Allocate Resources
• Create Plans
• Manage Forecasting Process
• Measure Business Performance
• Align Rewards

Information Management:

• Engage with Businesses to create pull for information
• Create and manage common information management platforms
• Manage Information Operations

Financial Transaction Processing:

• Implement Transaction Processing Systems
• Operate Accounting system
• Generate Routine Accounting Records and Financial Reports
• Manage in-house and Outsourced Financial Shared Services (FSS)
• Provide Financial Shared Services

Financial Accounting:

• Determine and apply correct accounting treatments
• Manage Financial Reporting
• Manage external reporting and audit

Corporate Governance:

• Uphold Fiduciary Responsibilities
• Establish Financial/Holding Structures and Policies

Risk Management & Internal Controls:

• Identify & Mitigate Operational, Financial and Business Risks
• Manage Financial Internal Control Systems and Policies
• Manage Operational Internal Control Systems and Policies
• Conduct Audits

Treasury Management:

• Establish Optimal Financial Structures
• Manage Cash
• Manage Pensions Investments
• Manage Financial Risks
• Maintain Banking Relations
• Manage Insurance and Risk Control Programme

Taxation:

• Execute Tax Strategy
• Manage Tax Risk and Tax Reporting
• Manage Fiscal Relations
• Uphold Integrity in Tax Matters

Acquisitions, Alliances and Divestments:

• Identify Opportunities & Candidates
• Evaluate Options
• Execute A&D
• Manage Completion and Post Completion Activities
• Build Alliances

Investor Relations:

• Understand Financial Markets: trends, organization and operations
• Analyse Unilever, Industry and Competitors
• Manage Communication effectively.
• Manage Relationships & Programs

General Skills

• Business Strategy and Formulation
• Business Planning and Implementation
• Information Management
• Application and Exploitation of Information Technology
• Negotiation

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2.) Information Security Lead, Africa

Job Requisition ID: R-62916
Job Location: Agbara, Ogun
Job Type: Full time

Role Purpose

• This Information Security Lead role supports the BISO in securing Unilever’s business in Africa.
• This includes cyber risk assessment across the region, including for third parties, representing to the regional businesses our central security services, applying those services to determine gaps in the regional security posture, consulting on appropriate risk mitigation approaches, managing the regional security exceptions, cyber incident response in the region, and elevating and reporting into the central Cyber Security function.
• These activities will be conducted with a ‘Risk Based’ approach to help individual businesses manage cyber risk in their area.

Role Summary

• A vacancy exists for the Information Security Lead (ISL) for Africa within Unilever’s cyber function.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for the Africa region achieving and maintaining Cyber Security objectives, standards, awareness, and compliance, defined using a ‘Risk Based’ approach.
• This leadership position will report to the regional Business Information Security Lead (BISO).

Key areas under this role delivered by the ISL team include:

• Cyber security solution engineering and risk advisory across Unilever businesses, assuring appropriate risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting.
• Ensuring the deployment and running of security tooling in Africa, in conjunction with the Tech & Ops team.
• Ensuring the Security Operations Centers (SOC) have full visibility across the ecosystem and actively participate in incident response at the direction of the Head of Incident Response.
• Developing and delivering risk reports for Africa.
• Tailoring cyber training and awareness in Africa in alignment and partnership with the Cyber Training and Awareness Lead.
• Providing standards and controls feedback, based on local implementation requirements to the GRAC team to help shape global policies and standards.
• Partner with the BISO for Supply Chain and BISO for R&D to ensure appropriate cyber risk mitigation for those functional areas within their region of responsibility.
• Testing business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery (DR) in the region.
• Leading cyber cultural transformation across Africa in line with our Security Strategy and Transformation program.
• Maintaining and effectively directing the timely closure of security exceptions in businesses while reporting status to the Governance, Risk, Assurance and Compliance (GRAC) team.
• The position calls for a strategic individual with strong communication and influencing skills, who can roll their sleeves up tactically to understand business operations, digital transformation, cloud, applications, information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), internet of things (IoT) and Cybersecurity.
• This leader will utilize her/his knowledge and experience to assist with the implementation of an effective global cyber security program that ensures the overall cyber security posture of the company is aligned with business needs and balanced to protect in the evolving threat landscape.
• This role supports the Global CISO in building strong relationships with internal leaders and senior executives, along with the other senior Cyber Security leadership team, on matters of cyber security and cyber risk, to foster the execution of cyber security as a business enabler.

Main Accountabilities

• Responsible for cyber security solution engineering and advisory across Unilever businesses in Africa.
• Responsible for ensuring SOC visibility across Africa.
• Responsible for cyber risk reporting within Africa to the CISO and to the business leaders.
• Responsible for tailoring and delivering cyber training and awareness across Africa.
• Responsible for providing standards and controls feedback based on local implementation requirements/restrictions in order to refine global policies, standards and controls requirements.
• Partner with corporate audit for planned cyber security audit review across their region of responsibility.
• Responsible for encouraging and leading the cyber champions network participation across Africa.
• Responsible for leading cyber cultural transformation efforts across Africa.
• Responsible for maintaining and effectively directing timely closure of security exceptions in businesses across Africa.
• Identify, categorize and risk assess third parties for cyber security implications across their region of responsibility.
• Attract, develop, and lead a team of Information Security Leads and subject matter experts across the region, as planned for in the central cyber security budget and headcount plan.

Key Skills and Relevant Experience
Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and able to be understood by both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a senior team.
• Outstanding influencing ability.
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Outstanding critical reasoning and problem-solving skills – sticking to the problem until it is resolved.
• The ability to lead through accountability with delegated responsibilities.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and multiple tasks.
• Stakeholder management and interpersonal skills at both a technical and non-technical level.
• Customer-orientated, whether responding to queries or delivering new services.
• Skills in Programme and Project Management.

Experience:

• The role holder will have practical experience in Cyber Security.
• Experience of leading major programs across a global organization.
• Excellent strategic and operational business awareness, with a deep understanding of the key drivers, levers, issues and constraints of digital businesses.
• Experience within a customer focused environment.
• Experience and proven track record in Cyber Security.
• Experience in providing thought leadership, and driving a complex change agenda, and an ability to challenge the “status quo”.
• Knowledge of the applications or the technical landscape within the domain and experience of delivering Cyber Security projects to its demands.

Behaviors:

• Candidates would be required to demonstrate the Unilever Standards of Leadership & live the Values through showing the following behaviors:
• Agility – Flexes leadership style and plans to meet changing situations with urgency. Learns from the past, envisions the future, has a healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo.
• Talent Catalyst – Develops and magnifies the power of people. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best. Investing in people, coaching individuals, and teams to realize their full potential. Continually inspires powerful collaboration.
• Passion for High Performance – Inspires the energy needed to win, generating intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed.

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