Hindustan Unilever | Finance Executive

Key accountabilities

• Job Purpose: Financial Reporting is part of a centralised finance team responsible for high‑quality preparation of financial statements, governance over end‑to‑end financial processes, and robust balance sheet management.
• The role ensures accuracy, timeliness, and compliance of financial reporting while driving process discipline and supporting continuous improvement across the finance control environment.
• This role manages a small team and works extensively with SAP and related reporting tools, with some use of Power BI for insights and analytics.
• Lead the preparation, review, and submission of periodic financial statements in line with Unilever policies, local GAAP / IFRS, and internal timelines.
• Own and drive balance sheet hygiene, including regular balance sheet reviews, ageing analysis, and timely resolution of open items.
• Coordinate month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end close activities, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.
• Review and sign‑off key account reconciliations, ensuring issues are identified, escalated, and resolved promptly.
• Partner with other finance teams (e.g., Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Business Partnering) and relevant business stakeholders to resolve issues and land improvements.
• Support internal and external audits by preparing audit schedules, responding to queries, and ensuring remediation of audit observations.
• Identify opportunities for simplification, standardisation, and automation in financial reporting and control processes, and drive agreed improvements.
• Lead, coach, and develop a small team of finance professionals, ensuring clarity of goals, strong performance, and learning opportunities.
• Use SAP extensively for posting, reporting, analysis, and controls, ensuring data integrity and consistency across systems.
• Leverage Power BI (where applicable) to create or enhance dashboards and reports that provide insight into financial performance, balance sheet health, and process KPIs.

Requirements

• Strong experience in financial reporting, controllership, or related finance roles, ideally in a large or multinational organisation.
• Hands‑on experience with SAP (FI/CO or equivalent modules) in a financial reporting or controlling environment.
• Exposure to reporting/visualisation tools such as Power BI is an advantage.
• Experience of managing or coaching team members is preferred.
• Strong technical understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting (local GAAP and/or IFRS).
• Proficiency in SAP for financial postings, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Ability to work with and interpret large data sets; familiarity with Power BI or similar tools is a plus.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to drive issue resolution across multiple stakeholders.
• Good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a centralised / virtual team environment.
• Ability to plan and prioritise under tight month‑end and year‑end timelines.
• Effectiveness of process governance (on‑time close, adherence to controls, KPI performance).

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