Unilever Hiring for Platform Manager – Finance at Bengaluru, India Full Time

JOB TITLE: Platform Manager – Finance

WL: 2A/B

ABOUT UNILEVER:

Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life – giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.

We are looking to hire a Platform Manager: Global R2R in Bangalore.

The ideal candidate will have:

Technical skills

·Overall 5+ years of experience in IT of which 2+ years of experience working on Application Maintenance, Service Delivery, and IT Platform Management

·Strong technology interest, ideally with hands-on experience of innovating solutions

·Bachelor’s in business, engineering or Computer Science, and Masters/MBA preferred

·Ability to work with multiple cultures, both within team and stakeholders

·Good domain knowledge to be able to work with Platform Directors, and global finance Stakeholders to ensure alignment within and outside Unilever IT organizations.

·Conversant with budgeting practices & governance

·Understanding & appreciation of Record to Report and Supply Chain Finance process

·Excellent Communication skills (written and verbal)

·Stakeholder Management skills

·Ability to work effectively in complex matrix organisations involving outsourced operations

·Strong business analysis skills and good business awareness to drive business process improvement

·Good to have: Hands-On experience on SAAS products, SQL technology, Microsoft Azure Data Lake

Personal skills

• Supplier management to ensure that team is equipped with the right set of resources required to run the platform

• Budget management for various IT practices and innovations within Platform management like automated testing, devops practices etc to make the operations more robust

• Output of this practice should be a resilient and future ready platform for onboarding new applications and markets

• Establish and govern, Fit to purpose Service Delivery practices to ensure the following

• Application life cycle management – starting from Service Introduction (inclusive of process like criticality, IT security assessment etc) to creating a service model, establishing service acceptance criteria, keeping the application status updated in CMDB and decommissioning of the service.

• Governance around onboarding new features and markets to an application. This would include practices like Service rehearsal, operational acceptance, periodic governance etc.

• Governance to ensure all the platform services are free from any potential vulnerability. Any such vulnerabilities should be tracker, reviewed and mitigated in a timely manner

• Governance to ensure any service downtimes etc. for activities like upgrades and other maintenance windows are planned and the required downtime windows are aligned with required stakeholders

• Act as a single point of contact between the various IT platforms and business users to ensure that anything needed to run the service is well managed and the users are informed about any such impacts on service availability in a timely manner.