Recruitment at Unilever Nigeria Plc

Unilever Nigeria Plc – Welcome to Unilever, a global multinational and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company with products sold in over 190 countries and more than 2 billion consumers across the world who use our amazing products everyday!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Credit Control Intern – Future-X Unilever Campus Ambassadors Program (FUCAP)

Location: Nigeria
Job type: Full time
Duration: 1 Year
Working hours: 8am – 5pm (Mondays – Fridays)

Responsibilities

• Regularly review outstanding invoices, track payment due dates, and identify potential late payments.
• Communicate with relevant stakeholders on issues relating to customer accounts.
• Implement debt collection strategies, including reminders, follow-up calls, and potentially working with collection agencies.
• Ensure accurate reconciliation of payments received against invoices, and resolve any discrepancies.
• Maintain accurate records of customer payment and collection efforts.
• Prepare and distribute periodic reports on outstanding debts, collection performance, and credit risk.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of credit control policies and procedures.
• Identify and mitigate credit risks by implementing effective credit control measures.
• Monitor Customer Bank Guarantee process.
• Ensuring proper cash management and incentive process.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related fields.
• Must be serving or completed NYSC.
• Good Financial and Analytical skills.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft office tools.
• Knowledge of Account Receivable.
• Exceptional communication and negotiation skills.
• Good stakeholder management skills.
• Strong time management and organisational skills.
• Ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
• Available to work fulltime for the duration of 1 year.

Salary
N90,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
2nd May 2025, 11:59 pm.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Financial Accountant

Job ID: R-71217
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities
Statutory Reporting:

• Preparing of the financial statements of the company (statement of comprehensive income, statement of financial position and statement of cash flow) in accordance with IFRS and Unilever standard chart of accounts (SCOA)
• Providing commentary on the results for the Financial Controller.
• Quarterly publication of the financial results in the appropriate media/channels
• Preparing quarterly presentation for statutory board meetings.
• Preparing of quarterly presentation for board audit committee meeting.
• Preparing of monthly working capital (WC) of the organisation in SAP.
• Calculating and interpretations of financial ratios.
• Preparing the annual booklet of the company.
• Monthly review of indirect and administrative cost postings made into the system.

Month-end coordination (MEC):

• Prepare and send the MEC checklist together with the Issue log ahead of the month end and coordinates the month end process of SAP.
• Carry out ledger reviews
• Follow up on all MEC issues and ensures all issues are resolved on time
• Provide consultancy to internal customers, regarding cost control, through regular meetings.
• Manage IP/Ariba/DCIW processes relating to Site Financial Accounts. Liaise with the outsourced account payable function to ensure correct accounting for payments to/from site.
• Check for deviation in the Payroll file – Ensure any amendments in headcount is correctly reflected by HR team.
• Maintain cost centre structures within SAP

Accounting and Reporting:

• Accurate and timely financial analysis reporting.
• Balance Sheet and P&L integrity, risk and control by providing reconciliations and commentaries to the Financial Controller
• Accrual sign offs
• 3rd party & OC R2R interface
• Global reporting
• Liaison with external auditors
• Responsible for the management of GL transactions/reporting for the Country

Experiences & Qualifications

• First degree or equivalent in Accounting, Economics or other numerical courses
• Should be a member of a professional body (Qualified Accountant) or part-qualified.
• Understanding of local regulations related to accounting and taxation
• Strong attention to detail
• Understanding of accounting principles
• Financial data gathering and analysis experience
• Experience identifying risks and opportunities

Skills:

• Internal controls and risk management
• Business understanding
• Organisational and prioritisation skills
• Good engagement, presentation and communication skills
• Ability to present complex information in a simplified manner
• Ability to work collaboratively with and influence key stakeholders

Key Interfaces:

• Financial Controller.
• All functions within UL.
• External Auditor.
• Statutory Bodies.
• Financial Institutions.

Application Closing Date
2nd May, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Communications and Sustainability Manager

R-70303
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time
Function: Communications and Corporate Affairs
Reports to: 1UL Head of Communications and Corporate Affairs
Scope: Local

Job Purpose

• Find your purpose at Unilever – You should be someone who enjoys evolving internal communications and its channel landscape, you have a hands-on mentality and see opportunities everywhere that help excite our people around the company and show proof that Ice Cream is an employer of choice.

Main Responsibilities

• Managing Communications, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability for Unilever Nigeria, business partner / trusted advisor to the Managing Director, and the Executive Leadership team
• Work with the MD and Nigeria Leadership Teams to align work plans, communications and objectives that promote corporate image and avoid it being brought into disrepute
• Ensure deep, strategic relationships with Governments, Communities, and key Stakeholders to drive Unilever’s image positively, guarantee our license to operate and manage short term issues
• Develop strategies with relevant stakeholders for partnerships and programs to support Unilever Nigeria’s sustainability agenda.

Main Accountabilities and deliverables:
Media Relations and Publicity:

• Be the first point of call for all media enquiries and responding to journalists from all sources of media including local, national and specialist press and broadcast media.
• Manage and implement the promotion of our media coverage internally via existing channels (preparing coverage booklets, display articles on media boards and daily media scanning service etc).
• Maintain media coverage filing system.
• Assist in fulfilling requests for visuals and photography

Internal and Corporate Communications:

• Motivate and enthuse employees behind Unilever’s leadership vision, sustainable living and growth ambition.
• Providing top quality strategic communications guidance to the Nigerian Leadership team, and Corporate Affairs teams.
• Driving an integrated program of communication aligning Nigeria within the 1Unilever business and with Unilever’s global objectives, ensuring seamless roll out of global policy.
• Supporting financial and sustainability reporting and investors communications with shareholders and regulators for our listed business in the region.

Community Relations:

• Activate the company’s community relations program – this includes the community CSR programs.
• To help in the annual awareness raising program to recruit new volunteers to the various community relations program.
• To develop and implement volunteers training and feedback programs.
• Manage relationship with government agencies and key opinion formers in various public scenarios
• Develop goals, strategies and guidelines, in conjunction with relevant stakeholders for community partnerships and programs that are aligned with Unilever’s objective.
• Identify mechanisms to measure and direct and indirect impact of community relations initiatives on engagement, strategic objectives and brand enhancement.

Requirements
Experiences & Qualifications

• 10+ years versatile communications experience, with a focus on internal comms
• Experience working with and advising of senior executives, and ideally navigating a complex matrix organization
• Experience managing events and preparing spokespeople
• Delivery in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written skills and attention to detail and diversity
• Creative thinking and proven ability to spot opportunities across the company and translate into internal initiatives
• Discretion when dealing with confidential matters
• Network of established external contacts with political, NGO, industry and academic key opinion formers.

Skills:

• Corporate governance
• Stakeholder management
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Experience in media relations and management
• Strong business understanding
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills
• Excellent engagement, presentation and communication skills
• Ability to present complex information in a simplified manner
• High editorial skills with super attention to detail.

Leadership:

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Application Closing Date
3rd May, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online