Category Finance Manager

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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.

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 Category Finance Manager who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about shaping financial strategies. This is a stellar opportunity to provide robust financial support and challenge the FF&A and Catergory Controller and Marketing Exceutive Team in the specified areas of Brand P&L Perfomance, New development Financials , Marketing Spend control, financial Analysis and profit analysis. This is to provide the necessary financial apprails, analysis and insight into all matters relating to Marketing activity and associated return on investment across all excisting and proposed product ranges. The role is a commercial business partnering role focused on supporting the successful delivery of profitability tartgets. 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

• Review and Close Monthly P&L ensuring full and accurate reporting of Balance Sheet and P&L by Brand; analysing Spend by Brand to communicate and challenge variance to Budget/ Last Year;
• Closing & Reporting the month end P&L by Brand analysing Net Revenue/ Gross Margin by Brand to communicate and challenge variance to Budget/ Last Year.
• Manage Marketing spend in line with Budget challenging the relevant budget holders to deliver Budget P&L and appropriate ROI on investments;
• Track and control Bonus Pack/ Sample spend to be within Budget;
• Ensure robust internal control processes are in place on Marketing Spend, enforcing NO PO/ NO PAY policy ensuring all activities authorised pre commencement.
• Provide timely and accurate month end reporting packs with insightful analysis
• Identify and understand business challenges; propose and create solutions.
• Partner directly with the local and area finance teams to collaborate on metrics, goals, and business reviews.
• Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert to provide additional insights.
• Work on projects and initiatives that impact the entire organization.
• Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made.
• Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with business partners and cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization.
• Work towards simplifying and standardising reporting decks in an effort to always improve accuracy, time spent on preparing decks and quality of information provided

The experience we're looking for

• CA / CIMA or ACA qualified. Min 2 year qualified
• General knowledge of accounting/financial/operational principles
• Experience developing financial reports and metrics
• Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with various management levels
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to a changing, fast-paced environment
• Strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture
• Demonstrated ability to influence others through effective verbal and written communication
• The ideal candidate will be a commercially astute qualified accountant with experience in an FMCG environment, possessing strong skills in analysis and excellent communication and influencing skills
• Proven track record of inspiring change or implementation of new ideas
• Clear understanding of various business processes
• The ideal candidate will be a commercially & Supply astute qualified accountant with experience in an FMCG environment, possessing strong skills in analysis and excellent communication and influencing skills

The skills for success

Business Acumen, 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.

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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.