Hindustan Unilever | FP&A SME (Finance Transformation & Digital Products)

Key responsibilities

• The role requires deep expertise in planning, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and performance management, coupled with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Partner with global and regional FP&A teams to understand business requirements and translate them into product enhancements and process improvements.
• Lead process design and deployment activities for FP&A transformation initiatives across markets and regions.
• Drive stakeholder alignment, change management, and business adoption during implementations.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and analytics processes, ensuring solutions meet business objectives.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Architects, and Delivery Teams to define requirements, prioritize backlog items, and validate delivered solutions.
• Act as the functional lead during testing, UAT, training, and hypercare phases.
• Monitor deployment risks, dependencies, and stakeholder concerns, ensuring proactive communication and issue resolution.
• Support governance processes, budget tracking, and vendor management activities where required.
• Coach business users and junior team members on FP&A processes and best practices
• Deliver with Excellence: Executes with discipline, ownership, and attention to quality.

Key skills & experience

• Strong experience in FP&A, including budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial performance analysis.
• Experience with enterprise planning solutions such as Hyperion, SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, Anaplan, or similar platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience working in global, cross-functional environments.
• Ability to facilitate workshops, gather requirements, and manage complex business discussions.
• Good understanding of finance data models, reporting structures, and planning processes.
• Experience supporting digital transformation, product deployment, or system implementation initiatives.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to balance business priorities with technology constraints.
• Effective management of deployment risks and issue resolution.
• Strong collaboration across Finance, Technology, and external partner teams.

Hindustan Unilever Limited

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India's largest fast-moving consumer goods company and a subsidiary of Unilever. Its roots in India go back to 1933, and it has carried the present name since 2007. From its Mumbai headquarters it runs home care, beauty and personal care, and foods businesses whose brands — such as Surf Excel, Rin, Dove, Lux, Lifebuoy, Lakmé, Pond's, Brooke Bond, Horlicks and Kwality Wall's — reach a large majority of Indian households. Its shares trade on the NSE and BSE.

For finance professionals, HUL hires across controllership and financial reporting, financial planning and analysis, supply-chain and factory finance, taxation, treasury, internal audit and commercial finance, besides its well-known Unilever Future Leaders Programme (UFLP) finance stream. CA, CMA and MBA (Finance) profiles suit these roles in Mumbai, Bengaluru and its plant locations.

• Industry: Consumer goods (FMCG) — home care, beauty & personal care, foods
• Headquarters: Mumbai, India (parent: Unilever)
• In India: Head office in Mumbai, with factories, depots and offices across India and a large technology and data arm in Bengaluru