unilever

Finance Lead – GBS Bucharest Hub

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Life tastes better with ice cream

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry.

We create iconic ice cream brands that are part of everyday life, bringing moments of joy to millions of people around the world. Everybody loves ice cream. And as the world’s biggest pure‑play ice cream company, we have the scale and ambition to make a real difference.

What truly sets us apart is how we work.

We move fast and keep things simple. We turn ideas into action, trust people to take ownership, and work as one team to win together with integrity. Our culture is high‑performance, collaborative and focused on getting things done.

We’re curious and ready for what’s next. We embrace digital, use data to make better decisions, and keep learning, including how AI can help us work smarter and serve consumers better.

ABOUT GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES: A hub for future-fit capability, expertise and superior solutions to unlock speed, simplicity and operational agility.

This is your chance for a ‘once in a lifetime’ career experience, playing a part in the creation of a fully independent, new Ice Cream organization. As part of this set-up, Magnum Ice Cream will establish a future-fit and innovative GBS organization, partnering with multiple business functions across a global footprint to optimize processes, unlock business savings, and operational efficiency.

The GBS organization will partner key business functions including Finance, Enterprise Solutions and Information Technology, Procurement, Supply Chain, HR, Marketing, Customer Development and Sales, and Sustainability. A significant proportion of GBS roles will be based in one of our GBS hubs, with supporting spokes to be established in the Americas and Europe.

The Role

Your role will be to support the GBS Bucharest as a finance business partner, budget management capex, opex etc. including timely exits of TSAs to support the demerging of Unilever and Magnum Ice Cream, and thereby a GBS for the Ice cream business.

In addition, you will lead a culture of continuous improvement, including identifying opportunities for process standardization and improvement not only locally but also support global finance initiatives.

What you will be responsible for:

Set Up :

  • Refining and understanding GBS Centre budgetary needs both people and non-people and drive the functions to provide detailed forecast in spend
  • Setting up and adherence to the right cost centre hierarchy and mapping for the Establishment spends
  • Site Setup & Expansion: Assist in establishing new GBS sites, including financial infrastructure and controls.
  • Treasury & Cash Flow: Monitor liquidity and support centre reporting during and from set up.

Ongoing :

  • Data Modelling & Business Cases: Build models to evaluate new opportunities coming into the GBS sites and project profitability
  • Act as Bucharest GBS finance BP and finance controller
  • Monitoring the establishment project budgets and financial performance, ensuring that expenditure is aligned with the allocated budget
  • Ensuring cost is correctly allocated to the right budgets and are reported correctly. Guidance is issued to the stakeholders for establishment cost management
  • Preparing and present management reporting that outline project budgets and forecast, and any potential risks or deviations from the plan.
  • Ensure Budgetary project risk like delays and overruns are controlled and mitigated.
  • Month-End Close & Reporting: Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting and compliance of numbers of each centre.
  • Forecasting & Budgeting: Develop financial models and forecasts to support business planning.
  • Strategic Business Partnering: Present financial insights to stakeholders, support decision-making, and influence strategy.
  • Collaborating closely with Centre heads, project managers, stakeholders, and team members to provide timely financial and performance updates.

What we are looking for:

Experience

  • 15+ years of experience in finance and accounting
  • Must have shared services experience, experienced in different pricing and Charge service models
  • Experienced finance controller will be preferred.
  • Strong analytical and financial modelling capabilities
  • Experience with ERP systems and financial planning tools
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management
  • Ability to work cross-functionally in a global matrix organization
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement skills.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities

Advantage

  • Tax & LE statutory reporting experience
  • SAP S4 experience preferred, global and multinational experience.
  • Lean practitioner or equivalent

Competencies

  • Passion for continuous improvement; challenging the status quo, efficient problem solving, driver of high performance
  • Strong stakeholder management skills: able to effectively deal with resistance and conflicts, build strong relationships, and establish trust
  • Demonstrated leadership skills
  • Highly analytical and structured customer centric behaviour; excellence eye for detail, hands-on mentality, and ability to work under pressure to strict deadlines

Qualifications

  • Chartered accountant or Graduate Degree with relevant experience
  • Fluent in English language, additional languages are a plus

What you'll get

Alongside meaningful work and strong development, we offer a reward package that typically includes

• Market-competitive pay and performance related rewards

• Flexible ways of working

• Support for health, wellbeing and life outside of work

• Time off to rest and recharge

• Ongoing learning and development opportunities

• Specific benefits vary by location

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Why join us?

This is a place for people who are passionate about ice cream and are growth obsessed - both for the business and for themselves. People who act like an owner and drive our business end-to-end. People who are driven by success to deliver more than we ever thought we could!

You’ll thrive here if you value an inclusive culture, with low ego and hierarchy - and if you’re excited to continuously learn and challenge how we work, using digital, data, and new thinking to push us forward.

- Roles with real accountability and visible impact
- Free to move fast, experiment and challenge how things are done
- Continuous learning and development as the business grows
- Reward linked to performance and contribution.

Your career here is shaped by what you deliver, as you work across functions and markets and grow with the business.

Ready to build the future of Ice Cream?

If this sounds like the place where you'd thrive, we'd love to hear from you. Apply online and share your CV. We'll review your application and be in touch with the next steps.

If you are an individual with a disability and require assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know.

Additional information

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. We encourage people with all backgrounds to apply including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and Māori and Pacific Peoples.