Ben & Jerry's Associate Finance Manager

Ben & Jerry’s

Homemade Inc., started in 1978 in a renovated gas station in Burlington,
Vermont, USA, founded by childhood friends and dedicated activists Ben Cohen
and Jerry Greenfield. In 2000 Ben & Jerry’s became a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Unilever with the remainder of an independent Board of Directors
to provide leadership focused on preserving and expanding Ben & Jerry’s
social mission, brand integrity, and product quality.

Ben & Jerry’s has
an inspiring ambition. We aim to be Unilever’s next billion € brand by 2020. We
are expanding rapidly in Europe and in new markets in Asia and Latin America.
This translates into a high-paced growth environment married without
uncompromising grassroots and activist spirit. That is how we remain a true
purpose-led organization with a connected 3-part mission that are reflected in
our KPI’s:

Job
Summary

The role of the Ben & Jerry’s Associate Finance Manager (AFM) is to
provide decision support and financial insight to help the Ben & Jerry’s
team deliver profitable growth and meet its annual targets in a manner
consistent with the 3-part mission and linked prosperity model. The AFM will
play an active role in the development of financial and brand investment plans,
will monitor performance against objectives, and will evaluate social mission
opportunities.

Duties and Responsibilities

This
role i
ncludes
the following duties and responsibilities, but additional requirements may be
assigned as needed.

• Serve as a
  strategic business partner, bringing an understanding of Finance, value
  creation and business drivers.
• Support
  analytical and business frameworks as well as a quantitative approach to
  decision making that shapes the overall strategic course of the
  organization.
• Build and
  maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional business
  partners to develop annual financial plans and ongoing forecasts for departmental
  expenses and headcounts.
• Involvement
  with special projects related to business development, strategic growth
  and ad-hoc analysis.
• Contribute
  to our culture of being collaborative, respectful, transparent, ethical,
  and efficient.
• Provide

• expert financial counsel to the cross-functional team. AFM will take an holistic view of plans
  and performance, and advise on action plans to meet both short and long
  term objectives.
• Prepare and
  monitor P&L’s (actual and forecast), identifying variances to plan and
  developing corrective actions.
• Be fully
  operational on business management tools including financial support for
  brand health, marketing plans, Marketing Mix Analysis, marketing budgets
• Support
  development and monitoring of cost savings/VIP objectives, including waste
  reduction, SKU rationalization and assortment maximization.
• Focus on
  operations including, but not limited to, formulation of pricing
  strategies, business assessment of new product initiatives, economic
  evaluation of capital expenditures, competitive analysis and benchmarking,
  and business process redesign
• Analyse
  financial results and key trends, assess current and future business
  risks, and communicate results to leadership.
• AFM is a
  member of the Innovation Project Team, building business cases for
  innovation projects and new country launches.
• Evaluate and
  quantify business risk/opportunity profile, and contribute to the
  development of plans to manage risks as innovations move through the
  innovation funnel.
• Contribute
  to 3 – 5 year strategic plans for the Ice Cream Category and the Ben &
  Jerry’s Board of Directors.
• Additional responsibilities as required

Key Requirements

To
perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each
essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative
of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may
be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
functions.

• Bachelor’s Degree in
  Accounting, Finance, or related field; MBA or CPA strongly preferred
• Minimum of four years of
  related financial planning and analysis experience with increasing
  responsibility and control
• Prior work experience in
  Brand, Supply Chain, Customer Development (Sales), Audit, Accounting,
  Financial Reporting, or Financial Planning is preferred
• An enterprising and
  inquisitive nature that can find solutions to complex problems
• Experience creating and
  implementing process improvement solutions
• Excellent verbal and
  written communication skills to clearly communicate results and
  implications of analysis in both verbal and written forms
• Experience communicating
  effectively with all levels leadership, and experience communicating with
  all levels of financial acumen
• Enjoy working in a
  collaborative team environment
• Have proficiency in the
  following systems: BI, Hyperion, Excel, SAP, Word, and PowerPoint.

To support out 3-part mission, Ben & Jerry’s also
has an outspoken people-mission. We look for people with these characteristics
to strengthen our team:

• Purpose-driven: passion and drive to make a real
  impact with our social mission agenda
• Empathy: curious to collaborate with a variety of
  personalities and styles and to build excellent relationships with internal
  & external stakeholders
• Mastery: continuously learn and develop to remain an
  expert in your functional area
• Autonomy: dare to make choices and take ownership
• Activism: interested in bringing about political or
  social change
• Equity
  : recognizing
  power dynamics and how biases play out in interactions throughout society; this
  awareness and these skills are necessary so that throughout our business we
  engage respectfully and make decisions fairly

Please
note: as part of the job application, you will be asked to complete
pre-screening questions. Completion of
the pre-screening questions are mandatory in order to be considered. Please
allow yourself plenty of time to complete both the application and
pre-screening questions. If the
pre-screening questions are partially answered or not at all, it will adversely
affect the progress of your application. Please be aware that you will have to
complete the pre-screening questions at once as you will be unable to return to
it later.

Unilever
is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion 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.

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Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Minorities/Females/Protected
Veterans/Persons with Disabilities

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and employees are protected from discrimination under Federal law. For more
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