We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Finance​

Our Finance team is not just another department; we're strategic partners and catalysts for change, who use our expertise to drive sustainable growth and create and protect value for Reckitt. With a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and partnership, our inclusive, diverse and energised team breaks down traditional barriers, enabling you to thrive in a dynamic environment where you and your ideas matter. From leveraging insights and analysis to make data-driven decisions - to spearheading sustainable business practices that contribute to consistent and reliable business growth - we are unwaveringly passionate about making a meaningful impact, and always doing the right thing.

About the role

Embark on a leadership journey as Reckitt's Finance Business Director and play a pivotal role in steering our global company towards prosperous horizons. In this influential position, you will work closely with the CFO to enable communication, collaboration, strategy execution, and projects across the Finance organization. This role is designed to help the CFO manage her priorities, track key metrics, and ensure strategic targets are met. You will be a sounding board for the CFO on new ideas and initiatives, and work closely with the Global Finance Leadership Team (GFLT) to ensure the Finance function’s objectives and priorities are delivered. As part of the GFLT, the Business Director is a trusted member of the team, ensuring effective communication and providing support on a wide range of tasks. This role involves significant international travel and requires a strategic mindset to navigate senior forums and advise the CFO on her involvement in various meetings and decisions.

Your responsibilities

• Work closely with the CFO to ensure the Finance Objectives and transformation agenda are being delivered, impacting key strategic decisions.
• Advise the CFO on her priorities, track these priorities, and ensure everything is being monitored with the right metrics and targets.
• Develop and maintain a systematic approach for the GFLT and EOLT discussions, ensuring deliverables are prioritized and properly followed up.
• Ensure effective information flow and collaboration across the GFLT and other senior stakeholders.
• Support the GFLT, fostering a high-performing and collaborative environment.
• Lead the cadence and agenda for major global finance forums like Extended FLT, Finance Conference, and GFLT offsite meetings.
• Bring topics back to the table to ensure they are top of mind and dealt with, advising the CFO on what she should and shouldn't be involved with.
• Work directly with the CFO and senior leadership, impacting key strategic decisions.
• Develop your leadership skills and gain exposure to global finance operations.
• Be part of a fast-paced, innovative company with opportunities for international travel.
• Join a high-performing team that values collaboration and excellence

The experience we're looking for

• Strategic Insight: Strong understanding of the company’s operating model and processes, with the ability to understand business impact across global business units, IT&D, and Finance.
• Independent Execution: Ability to work independently and deliver results autonomously when needed.
• Innovative Agility: Agility to be innovative and results-driven, capable of adjusting to evolving situations with a commitment to excellence.
• Leadership Integrity: Unwavering integrity, leading by example, and a commitment to achieving collective brilliance with the team.
• Communication Skills: Strong and fearless communication skills, capable of navigating senior forums and managing up to C-level leaders.
• Professional Presence: Confidently stand in front of C-level and board members, manage up, delegate, and advise on strategic direction.

The skills for success

Project management, Financial systems, Improve business processes, Accounting Principles, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, Stakeholder engagement and influence.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.