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Financial Controls Manager- EA

Reckitt

Accounting & Finance

Nairobi, Kenya

Posted on Jul 2, 2025

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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

Are you ready to dive into numbers and drive success? Reckitt is on the lookout for a sharp Finance Manager Commercial who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about shaping financial strategies. This is a stellar opportunity to emerge as a financial champion, analysing data to fuel profit growth and taking the reins of our economic health. With your insights, we'll streamline costs, bolster financial fortitude, and map out a prosperous future. If you're eager to see your financial acumen manifest into tangible success, we'd love to welcome you aboard.

Your responsibilities

1. Addressing strategic and structural challenges

• Supervising all GFS activities for R2R (Record To Report) and P2P (Process to Pay) to ensure smooth GFS operations.

• Leading the Tax projects relating to KRA, iTax ledger reconciliations, Tax Compliance Certificate, Tax assessments, VAT Auto Assessments, Transfer Pricing documentation

2. Internal Controls

• Internal Audit - Ensure compliance with required Global Policies (existing and new policies), actions implemented on time from internal audit perspective.

• Ensure full Compliance with GFCF for respective sections.

• Ensure payments to all Vendors are made within agreed credit period and there should not be any overdue payments. Supervise GFS P2P team.

• Ensure month end check list and monthly tasks are fully adhered to.

• Carry out the fixed asset verification exercise and issue report to Leadership Team (LT).

• Develop full year reconciliation plan for Vendors & Customers and ensure 100% compliance.

3. Efficient and accurate Management and Statutory Reporting

a) Ensure timely and accurate submissions of month end results:

• Co-ordinate with respective functional teams to complete the month transactions for fixed cost, bank, customers and payables.

• Ensure HFM is completely locked with all memo schedules within Regional/Area Deadline.

• Ensure correct headcount reporting.

• Actively monitoring and controlling CFC (Company Fixed Costs) budgets.

• Sharing a monthly CFC report with Management Team for their visibility and actions.

• Ensure working files and all sub-systems like (RBSM, TSM and GL) are based on latest chart of accounts/PACT/MoCo.

b) Timely Statutory Reporting

• Ensure Statutory Audit, Annual returns and Board Resolutions are signed off on timely basis.

• Ensure all monthly and quarterly corporate tax amounts are paid within deadline.

• Complete quarterly tax working and book required adjustments in JDE.

• Ensure accurate quarterly Tax pack submitted in HFM.

C. Forecasting/Planning process

• Lead CFC FC/Plan process with relevant departments.

• Ensure effective NWC planning.

3. Managing Third Parties

• Company Secretaries

• Auditors

• Tax Consultants

• Bankers – Various requests from market/challenges.

• Lawyers

• Insurers – Insurance renewals and updates on policies.

The experience we're looking for

Strong Analytical skills
Stakeholder management with special importance to manage key external stakeholders including Tax/Revenue authorities, consultants and lawyers
Expert in Microsoft Excel (Pivot tables, advanced formulas, Data Tables and Financial modelling)
Effective communication skills with ability to present and participate in cross-functional meetings with senior management
Highly motivated and results-driven
Professional qualification (CPA/ACCA/CFA)
Postgraduate Degree in Finance/Accounting with relevant experience in FMCG industry (more than 6 years)

The skills for success

Business accumen, Investment Analysis, Budgeting & Forecasting, Project Management, Improve business processes, Accounting principles, Financial Reporting, Internal controls, Financial analysis and reporting, Stakeholder engagement and influence, Strategic thinking, Risk management, Relationship management.

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.