Purchase to Pay Manager

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Organization: Unilever

Deadline: 24 June 2025

Job Description

Terms & Conditions: Full time

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world!

The main purpose of the P2P manager role is to prepare payments to vendors based on the internal control policies and procedures.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Responsible for payments to suppliers as stipulated in the contracts signed by Unilever and the Supplier.
• Responsible to the Financial Accountant for the efficient management of local suppliers.
• Exploit IT systems (SAP, CORA, Tradeshift etc) to track suppliers invoices up to payment/filing stage.
• Reconciliation of supplier’s accounts.

 Payments to suppliers

• Ensure suppliers are paid within agreed credit terms.
• Identify and address any weakness in the creditor management and accounts payable process

Reconciliation of supplier’s accounts

• Ensure suppliers accounts are reconciled monthly
• Issues arising are cleared by end of following month
• Ensure the dividend account is reconciled monthly, and issues resolved promptly.

Results

• Make sure all major expenditures are captured in the month in which they occur.
• Ensure accruals are made for services rendered without invoices at month ends.
• Provide credible OCF forecast for creditors.
• Ensure a follow up on pending payments with the 3rd party service providers.
• Oversee the reconciliation and clearing of long outstanding of payments on the advance account.
• Ensure that the unvouchered account is reconciled at month end.

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.
• 3 – 5 years experience in Finance/ Reporting
• Proven experience in a P2P or similar  role.
• Strong understanding of financial processes.

Skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with different teams.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

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.

 

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