R2R Sr. Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 24, 2026. Unilever scores A on the Alion truth index.
Join us as R2R Sr. Manager
Function: Finance
Scope: Americas
Location: Bosques de las Lomas, Ciudad de México.
Terms & Conditions: Full time position.
JOB PURPOSE:
The R2R Sr. Manager is a key member of the Controllership organization responsible for ensuring strong financial stewardship, healthy balance sheet management, and effective end-to-end controllership across key processes value streams. The position plays a key role as the country-facing partner facilitating interactions between Regional & Country Controllers, Market Finance teams, Global Centers of Expertise, Control Tower, Risk Managers and other Financial Services Service Lines. The R2R Sr. Manager drives operational excellence, provides proactive business partnership, and leads continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen financial governance, enhance decision-making, and support the evolution of a more standardized, digitally enabled, and future-fit finance organization.
KEY RESPONSABILITIES:
Financial Stewardship, Governance & End-to-End Controllership Leadership
- Ensure integrity, accuracy, and completeness of financial reporting in accordance with accounting standards, internal policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Provide end-to-end oversight of key controllership processes, ensuring accountability, governance, and operational excellence across the finance value chain.
- Lead the identification, escalation, and resolution of financial, operational, and compliance risks.
- Support internal and external audits, statutory reporting activities, and remediation of audit findings.
- Drive adoption of global standards while ensuring local business, regulatory, and statutory requirements are appropriately managed.
Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management
- Act as a trusted advisor to Regional Controllers and Market Finance leadership teams. Support judgment based and ad-hoc activities and projects.
- Provide insight, challenge, and recommendations on accounting matters, balance sheet performance, controls, and financial risks.
- Build strong relationships across Markets, R2R Operations, Treasury, Tax, FP&A, and Global Finance teams and other service lines including but not limited to including R2R, S2P, O2C, Tax, Treasury, FP&A
Transformation, Simplification & Digital Enablement.
- Lead and support initiatives, from design to adoption, focused on process simplification, standardization, and organizational effectiveness.
- Identify opportunities to improve productivity through automation, analytics, AI-enabled solutions, and digital tools.
- Support the implementation of future finance capabilities, operating model enhancements, and process transformation initiatives.
- Drive change management efforts and help build organizational readiness for evolving finance capabilities.
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:
- Strong stewardship mindset, with high integrity and independence to address policy deviations, compliance issues, and emerging risks, escalating appropriately when required • Strong business understanding and ability to connect controllership outcomes with market priorities and operational realities
- Solution-oriented and pragmatic mindset, with the ability to simplify complexity, make sound judgments, and drive issues to resolution.
- Strong E2E ownership and accountability, with the ability to work independently, influence across teams, and deliver through ambiguity.
- Experience driving operational excellence and process optimization.
- Digital mindset with interest in automation, analytics, data, and AI-enabled solutions.
- Ability to work under pressure, highly capable of remaining composed, focused, and effective while managing complex and sensitive competing priorities.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experience
- Proven record leading Finance, Accounting, Controllership, Audit, Financial Compliance, or Recordto-Report operations.
- Experience operating in global, regional, or shared services environments. • Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholder networks across functions and geographies.
- Proven track record of driving process improvements, transformation initiatives, or operating model enhancements.
- Experience balancing operational delivery with strategic improvement initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or related discipline. • Professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA, CMA, CA, or equivalent is preferred.
- Continuous learning mindset with interest in emerging finance technologies and digital capabilities.
Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.