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
The role of the Senior Financial Analyst reporting into the Senior Finance Manager will support the team with all elements relative to the monthly close period for the Nutrition Commercial Marketing team.
Your responsibilities
• Responsible for all elements of the monthly close as it relates to overall marketing, including distribution of monthly and YTD spending reports, processing and analysis of new and existing accruals and tracking MTD marketing spend.
• Review financial performance (GS to PC) on brands against FC/PL estimates to provide insights to Finance leadership during monthly internal MFR reviews. In addition, provides insights on our external performance from a POS/Inventory view to help provide insights on any risk/opportunity to the business.
• Perform marketing spend analysis by each budget line, isolating and discussing underspends and overspend with respective teams, tracking YTD trends, calling out potential risks and opportunities.
• Support the financial planning process (Plan / Quarterly FCs) by aligning with teams on planned marketing spend, aligning on risks and opportunities and adjusting forecast accordingly.
• Business Partnership: Work directly with marketing during FC scenarios to align budgets and understand movements/deviations from previous FCs. Ensures our financial systems (Anaplan/Fusion/Allocadia) are updated accordingly and align with expectations.
• External Performance Analytics: Responsible for working with Marketing teams to understand drivers for our external performance from a POS/Inventory view. This is critical to our MFR meetings and allows us to ensure we are tracking to our estimates.
• Innovation / New Product Projects: Responsible for working with teams to gather all financial inputs for MPL approvals. Analyze each project and questions team back on inputs to ensure financial targets (GS, TI, NR, GM) are met before proceeding with approvals.
• Maintain positive and proactive interaction with Marketing and Finance to ensure ongoing exchange of quality financial information.
• Special projects or analyses as required.
• This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time
The experience we're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field
- Strong understanding of financial statements, particularly P&L
- 3–5 years of commercial finance experience, preferably in CPG market environments
- Advanced proficiency in MS Excel; as well as knowledge of SAP, SAC, Blackline, Anaplan, and PowerBI.
- Robust commercial analysis, modeling, and presentation skills
- Experience working in agile environments
- Exceptional time management and task prioritization abilities
- Excellent communication skills for effective business partner interactions
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The skills for success
- Accounting principles
- Financial systems expertise
- Strong communication skills
- Project management proficiency
- Business partnering acumen
- Process improvement orientation
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.
US salary ranges
USD $100,000.00 - $150,000.00
US pay transparency
The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year. Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick and Company recognized holidays; a 401(k) plan; 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; discounts; and much more. Our compensation and benefits packages aim to give our talent the reward, protection, and peace of mind they deserve. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact NAtalentacquisition@reckitt.com. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.
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.
