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Risk Management and Controls Senior Manager

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Job Description:

To lead the design, innovation, execution, and continuous improvement of Unilever’s global financial controls environment. The role acts as both the strategic architect of financial controls—defining frameworks, regulatory interpretation, automation strategy—and the operational leader ensuring highquality control execution, documentation, testing readiness, team capability, and audit alignment. The position ensures Unilever maintains a robust, compliant, simplified, and future fit controls landscape that enables reliable financial reporting, operational efficiency, and strengthened governance.

Job Responsibility:

  • Own and evolve Unilever’s Global Controls Framework
  • Act as the inhouse expert on financial controls, SOX, regulatory changes, and audit standards
  • Drive innovation through simplification, automation, digital tooling, and predictive capabilities
  • Partner with Process Excellence, Technology, Cyber Security, and Markets to embed control by design into transformation initiatives
  • Oversee high quality execution of financial controls across core business processes: Record to Report, Source to Pay, Order to Cash, Make to Deliver
  • Ensure operational teams understand SOX requirements, documentation standards, management review expectations, and testing protocols
  • Lead a team of analysts delivering global control operations
  • Identify operational pain points and redesign controls
  • Support SOX scoping, risk assessments, remediation, and reporting processes
  • Lead interactions with external auditors
  • Manage issue identification, remediation, and retesting
  • Chair and participate in governance forums across GCAD, Finance, Tech, CSC, and Process Excellence
  • Provide insights into emerging risks, regulatory trends, and opportunities
  • Prepare and present control status reports to leadership
  • Deliver training to control operators, reviewers, markets, and testing teams
  • Build enterprise wide awareness of controls fundamentals
  • Develop and mentor talent within the controls organisation

Requirements:

  • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or similar
  • Deep experience in internal controls, SOX, audit, or risk management
  • Strong understanding of Unilever’s or similar organisations’ business processes (RTR, PTP, OTC, MTD)
  • Proven ability to manage complex, multistakeholder projects and influence senior stakeholders

Nice to have:

  • Experience driving digital and automation initiatives within ICFR or risk functions
  • Broad exposure to SAP and financial systems
  • Experience in multicultural, multilocation team leadership

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 01, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
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