Assistant Manager Finance - Trade & Marketing
Reckitt
Marketing and Category Controller
We are Reckitt
Finance
About the role
An analytical and resourceful individual with excellent organizational and communication skills. This individual must be agile in the way they think and be able to pivot and be comfortable rolling up their sleeves and dig in to find solutions. The financial analyst role is key in two significant areas. First in providing reliable, timely and accurate financial information to assist management in the process of strategic decision making to deliver the business requirements. Second to lead the internal control assessment process across the Canadian organization. Both are key to grow the business and sustain our competitive advantage with moms and consumers.
Your responsibilities
- Business Controls
- Lead the internal control assessment processes and procedures across the organization.
- Ensure that internal control issues are anticipated, and audit infractions are avoided by performing internal control reviews throughout the year, including yearend assessments.
- Where necessary create and update control documentation.
- Reviews any deficiencies identified and develops/implements remedial plans.
- Financial Planning/Reporting/Analysis
- Responsible for all accounting, compliance, planning, control, and reporting activities related to Marketing, Shopper Marketing, hospital care sales, and National Coupon for Nutrition portfolio in Canada.
- Responsible for providing tools to budget owners to input data and run report during planning at lowest level (by projects, brand, expense, month)
- Responsible to roll up of budget/forecast/latest View/Flash of marketing spending/national coupon and upload to forecasting system
- Ongoing validate the forecast through estimates/contracts (rolling forecast)
- Publish Monthly status reports & budget/Forecast/LV/Flash summaries to the budget owners reflecting outstanding issues & follow through on requirements
- Monthly meetings conducted with the budget owners providing budget & status report updates, giving the team visibility to efficiently manage the spend, reinvest savings earlier, to drive the top line.
- Partner with Marketing Director and Senior Managers to maintain the Pot balance of marketing funding
- Continually share learning’s, best practices & consistently challenge the vendors & marketing team to optimize our investment
- Responsible to review/analyze general ledger accounts related to National coupon and marketing cost perform account reconciliations and prepare adjusting journal entries.
- Assisting with the month-end close process and the reporting of results to Corporate
- Provide ongoing financial support to marketing & retail teams including PO creation, issuing coupon code and tracking master, applying for new WBS, day to day coaching with regards to spend, productivity projects and ROI
- Business partnering with Marketing to align budgets, brand strategies and spends, track marketing KPIs (SOV, ROI) and control for compliance
- Productivity Finance Assistant
- Support managing productivity projects status/financials
- Monthly meeting with initiative owners / shareholders to update the status and financials
- Monthly report Productivity LV to Global and Norther American team to the system
- Monthly report to local leadership team for the performance, LV, forecast, plan and highlight the risk
- Other
- Ad hoc Projects
The experience we're looking for
• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or similar business certification.
• Preference to individuals completed or enrolled in an accounting designation program (i.e. CPA) or MBA.
• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or similar business certification - MBA and /or CPA is considered a plus
• Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in relevant Finance/Accounting position, preferably in Commercial Finance/FP&A in CPG industry
• Experience with SAP ERP is considered a plus
• Experience working in a professional business environment and effectively developing and implementing new processes and assessing internal controls
• This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time.
• Have previously demonstrated ability to be agile and taking on a variety of tasks and seeking solutions to new problems
• Independent, self-starter, team-focused professional who will embrace an entrepreneurial and strong ownership culture and quickly integrate as part of the team.
• Accounting knowledge (journal entries, account reconciliations, & analysis) with excellent attention to detail, solid analytical ability and comfortable manipulating and analyzing complex and high-volume data sets.
• Knowledge interpreting, following and creating finance/accounting policies, procedures and working papers.
• Working knowledge of business and internal controls standards and processes at a public company
• Knowledge of key computer software packages (example: SAP) and is proficient in pulling data from these packages for use in relevant analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills. .