Unilever Bangladesh Limited (UBL) announced the appointment of Zinnia Tanzina Huq as its new Finance Director, effective from 1 February 2023.
She is currently serving as the Director, Finance for Beauty and Wellbeing and Personal Care business divisions. With this appointment, Zinnia will join the Management Committee of Unilever Bangladesh and be the first female Finance Director in the company. She will take over from Zahidul Islam Malita, who has been appointed as Global Procurement Finance Director in Singapore.
With over 22 years in the industry, Zinnia has a wealth of experience in corporate finance, Internal audit, operations finance, business partnering and M&A across FMCG and Pharmaceuticals industry. In 2019, she joined UBL where she led the historic acquisition of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Bangladesh- and integrated it seamlessly into Unilever’s processes and systems.
Additionally, Zinnia has been actively championing diversity and inclusion initiatives for UBL. Before joining Unilever, Zinnia served as the Finance Director in GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Bangladesh from 2014 and worked with BAT Bangladesh, where she held various roles in corporate finance and international audit, headed the supply chain finance and served as the Regional Finance Project Lead in Singapore for the Asia Pacific region.
A finance graduate of the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka, Zinnia is a Fellow Certified Management Accountant (FCMA) from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) UK. She holds memberships in the Institute of Internal Auditors Bangladesh and the Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Bangladesh.
