Senior Internal Audit & Risk Specialist

Unilever is Hiring Senior Internal Audit & Risk Specialist!

Function: Finance

Reports to: OVHs & Controlling Manager

Scope: LATAM Customer Operations

Location: LATAM

Terms & Conditions: Full Time

WHO ARE WE? 

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business and a better world. You will work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.

Role Purpose

Your role is to galvanize the organization, including those in headquarters, our factories and logistics operations as well as in our partner ecosystems, to be vigilant about controls and always take proper action to protect our business. It is everyone's responsibility to drive stewardship, and you play a key role in elevating that message.

Establishing and maintaining a strong governance model for the entire company policies and procedures is one of your key responsibilities. You will be expected to apply risk and control concepts to new and existing business models, clearly and concisely communicate identified findings to the leadership team, and partner with cross-functions teams to design workflows in support of risk-reduction activities.

Key Responsibilities

1.- Become a subject matter expert on the Global Financial Control Framework (GFCF) with the ability to provide direction, insight and implementation assistance to the control stakeholders.
2.-Lead local change management of updates to documentation, processes, way of working as new internal standards or changes in the systems.
3.-Establish and maintain a strong governance process to ensure all company policies and procedures are updated.
4.-Be familiar with supply chain finance activities as they relate to controls to provide direction when controls are being tested.
5.-Monitor key performance indicators (i.e.: Control Cockpit Dashboard) and financial metrics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities. Closely working with manufacturing sites, logistic and SCFS to sustain a high control performance.
6.-Assist with internal Financial Control Assessments, Audits and other compliance-driven requirements. Track audit findings, drive development of action plans, and follow up on remediation actions and issue closure.

Key Stakeholders:
- Business Group Business Partner
- Risk team
- UniOps
- Capgemini

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO APPLY?

 Experience & Qualifications
Professional Skills:
- Bachelor's Degree required.
- Comprehensive understanding of various business functions and their interconnections.
- Expertise with SOX compliance, auditing processes, and risk management practices.
- Good experience in the design, control, and evaluation of business operations for effectiveness.
- Experience in managing a diverse and complex range of stakeholders, including peers and third parties, while ensuring accountability.
- Good skills in presenting and communicating effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Over 3 years of experience in finance, particularly in roles related to risk, controls & compliance.

Skills & Capabilities

• Possess a growth mindset and a bias for action with resilience and courage to drive change.
• Disrupting mindset and ability to challenge the status quo/ current WoW establishing norms in a constructive way
• Agility & act as owner mindset.
• Seniority to manage sensible information while taking responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• Skilled in managing a large and complex set of stakeholders and holding others accountable and influence then.
• Experience in working effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Strong developed teamwork skills, high influence skills.

Leadership

• Focus on What Counts – Prioritizes activities that drive the greatest operational and customer impact.
• Stay Three Steps Ahead – Anticipates operational challenges and proactively develops solutions.
• Deliver with Excellence – Demonstrates ownership and consistently achieves high-quality results.
• Care Deeply – Puts customers, consumers, and operational teams at the center of decision-making.

INTERESTED?

Please submit your application through Workday, as email applications will not be processed.

At Unilever, we embrace diversity and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. We are committed to providing full and fair consideration to all applicants and to supporting the ongoing development of our employees regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, or maternity.

We are also committed to making reasonable adjustments to ensure a positive and barrier-free recruitment process

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.