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Job description / Role
Company Profile:
Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.
Look in your fridge, or on the bathroom shelf, and you're bound to see one of our well-known brands. We create, market and distribute the products that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh.
Our Corporate Strategy aims to double the size of our business while reducing our environmental impact by 2020. As a result, in the months and years to come, we envisage many opportunities for our staff to progress and gain vital experience. It's never been such an exciting time to join the Unilever team.
Job Profile
Department
- Finance
- WL
Job Position
- Accounts Assistant - AGU
Reports to
- Debtors Controller - AGU
Location
- Dubai
Main purpose of the role
The individual will be responsible for the collection of outstanding amount from the customers in market. He/She will also make sure that customers receive their statement on time and their accounts are updated & reconciled with the amount received from them. Keeping market overdue under control will also be one of the main objective of the role including effective customer finance connect and periodic reconciliation and balance confirmation. The individual also responsible for supporting on day to day finance operations like Customer Master Data creation, Tax Credit Notes, sales deal creation etc.,
Main accountabilities
- Collect outstanding amount from Customers in line with their Payment Terms, and take initiatives for reducing Working Capital
- Ensure Customer Accounts are reconciled and analyzed periodically in order to make sure that accounts reflect true & correct picture of the business.
- Monitor overdue customers very closely and take necessary actions to keep it at lowest.
- Ensure regular balance confirmations from Top Customers
- Physical verification of Freezers, trucks and other assets i.e. HHTS etc. in the market related to Ice Cream Business.
- Assist the Debtors' Controller with timely preparation of Monthly Trade Receivable Reports as per schedules.
- Ensure Customer Masters are properly updated with Valid Supporting and Autrhorizations as per UA Authority Schedules and Audit trial report to be made
- Conduct Monthly reviews with Salesteam of all channels and liase with cap Gemini for allocations.
- Ensure Serial controls of Receipts & Invoices
- Ensure Customer Statement are delivered as per schedule
- Ensure Effective steps are being taken in order to be in Line with the Debtor Days & Overdue Targets of the Company
- Assist the Debtors' Controller in Providing a monthly Debtors Forecast to the Asst.Finance Manager
- Coordinate with CG to resolve their queries on time and to take necessary steps to reduce the queries in future.
- Monitor Customer deductions and conduct Review meeting to ensure the credit notes are timely being prepared by Salesteam & Sales Coordinators in line with the Trading Agreements and that all the credit notes are booked in customers A/cs.
- Support on local promo price updating
- Ensure Health & Safety at work place
Key relationships
Internal:
- Finance Manager, Asst. Finance Manager
- Debtors' Controller
- Category Operations, Channels Managers, Supply Chain Manager
- Logistics Supervisors & Processing Team
- HR & IT
- Sales Supervisors, Sales Team, Sales Coordinators
External:
- Auditors
- Banks
- Customers
- Cape Gemini
Critical success factors of the job
Key competencies (max 5)
Requirements
Key skills
- Relevant Experience
- Passion for Growth
- Bachelor's degree in accounting
- Good communication skills, knowledge of sales and collections, good understanding of controls and analytical skills
- 2-3 years of work experience - preferably in a similar role or in a role which requires interaction with external business partners and strategic influencing
- Team Commitments
- Self Motivation
- Externel Orientation
- Change Catalyst
About the Company
Unilever is one of the leading FMCG company with 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products, no other company touches so many people's lives in so many different ways.
Our brand portfolio has made us leaders in every field in which we work. It ranges from much-loved world favourites including Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Omo, to trusted local brands such as Blue Band and Suave.
From comforting soups to warm a winter's day, to sensuous soaps that make you feel fabulous, our products help people get more out of life.
We're constantly enhancing our brands to deliver more intense, rewarding product experiences. We invest €1 billion every year in cutting edge research and development, and have five laboratories around the world that explore new thinking and techniques to help develop our products.