Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job
Gulf: Gulf is the largest BU in NAME with one of the highest profitability globally. Competitive landscape is intense with all major global and local competitors investing for market share. There is significant economic and political volatility in the region with oil prices having a significant impact on market growth. The strategy for the region is to grow competitively while maintaining high margins. Oman: Oman is one of the key markets and the distribution joint venture is one of the most profitable JVs in the Gulf business unit. The assistant finance manager will play a pivotal role as a key member of the management team in Oman to deliver topline, Bottom Line and growth plans. The Role: The role offers the unique opportunity of managing and leading the end to end finance agenda and processes with a high level of autonomy, empowerment and accountability. The role will provide leadership across all functions to local team in Oman and will have a significant level of exposure to senior stakeholders including the Business Unit Finance Director and CD Director in addition to closely working with the Country Manager.
Main Accountabilities
Stewardship and Governance: Manage all commercial activities in country, ensuring that sales results are accurately reported, accounting books are well maintained, debtors are under control and strong internal and operational controls are in place. Organize and manage the Annual General Meetings, dividend payouts etc. within the partners of the JV. Manage governance forums linked with JVs and key finance priorities. Business Partnering: Play a key role in driving business results with the country manager. Monitor and manage the indirects and logistics costs and ensure the delivery of the cost savings initiatives. Provide timely insights and drive actions in the appropriate forums to ensure performance delivery for the JV and for Unilever. Collaboration with other finance teams (FET, Central Finance, TMI analytics) and other business functions CD / CCD to advise stakeholders through financial and business analysis. Take the lead on initiatives across Gulf JV’s (OP exercise, collection formats and trackers).   Disruption: Leverage technology and people to lead and support process improvement and simplification initiatives including: TMI claims automation. Debtors reporting Slobs and business waste control Team Development and Learning: Lead a team of six direct reports and oversee their development and training requirements. Act as the focal point for best practice sharing across the Gulf Business Unit
Direct Reports	Key Interfaces
Account Supervisor Payable Accounts Supervisor RS Management Debtor Controller Modern Trade Debtor Controller General Trade Debtor Controller Van Sales & Master Data Cashier	Country Manager Gulf CD Finance and CCBT Finance team Gulf Logistics Manager Local CD and Logistics team JV partners CFOs

Critical success Factors for the Job
Key Skills	Relevant Experience
Managing business performance Decision support & influencing skills Experience in systems automation Information Management Communication and change management Business acumen & Customer, consumer understanding Internal controls and process management	Professional accounting qualification. Prior experience with Controlling, FET Finance.

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