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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