Planning & Reporting CoE Director
Reckitt
About Us
We’re Reckitt, home to the world’s best loved and trusted hygiene and health 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.
About the Finance Planning & Reporting CoE
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
As Centre of Excellence (CoE) & Planning and Reporting (P&R) Lead, you will play a pivotal role in our Finance Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, reporting directly to the VP of FP&A. You’ll provide thought leadership and drive continuous improvement across all planning and reporting activities, ensuring FP&A operates efficiently and delivers high-quality, trusted outputs.
You’ll lead the P&R CoE to deliver best-in-class planning, forecasting, and reporting capabilities while identify opportunities to optimize FP&A processes and enhance how the FP&A team operates. You’ll establish scalable processes, define reporting standards, and develop tools that enable timely, accurate, and insightful analysis across the organizations. By combining a deep understanding of data, process, and business context, you will transform how FP&A delivers insights and supports strategic decision making.
Your responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Lead the strategic vision and direction of the CoE and P&R initiatives, championing continuous improvement and clarity of purpose across FP&A.
- Collaboration with Finance Leadership: Partner closely with Area CFOs, CHQ Leadership, and other hub leads to align planning and reporting strategy and enable efficient, coordinated hub delivery.
- Operational Management: Oversee the central operational execution of all baseline planning, forecasting, and reporting activities, ensuring high-quality deliverables that drive business insights.
- Financial Analytics Framework: Implement a framework for reporting and analytics that supports data-driven decision-making, including the development of standardized reporting processes and automation of forecasting models.
- Global Standards & Process Improvement: Champion continuous improvement by leading initiatives to standardize and enhance FP&A processes, promote best practices, and enhance team efficiency.
- Performance Monitoring: Oversee key performance indicators, ensuring accurate planning and reporting that provides actionable insights to leadership.
- Finance Transformation: Participate in finance transformation initiatives by championing opportunities and technology solutions to streamline and improve existing FP&A processes, standardisation of report templates and the automation of manual tasks to enhance efficiency.
The experience we're looking for
- Degree educated or equivalent
- Minimum 12-15 years of professional experience in finance, with a deep understanding of financial processes including consolidation, budgeting, and forecasting, ideally within the CPG sector.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work collaboratively across geographies and functions
- Experienced in managing teams and driving operational excellence and continuous improvement
- Thought leadership with FP&A tools, Excel, and reporting/visualization platforms (e.g., Power BI).
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a strategic mindset to align technology solutions with business goals.
- Strong communication skills, capable of bridging the gap between finance and business stakeholders.
The skills for success
- Team Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Financial Analysis & Reporting
- Business Partnering
- Process Improvement
- Data Visualisation Skills
- Project Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Change Management
- Continuous Improvement Mindset
What we offer
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.