Associate Sales Controller

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

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

• Drive month-end closing process ensuring correct bookings and timely analysis of performance. 
• Support with sales plans, forecasts, outlooks and strategic views.
• Support for strategic business initiatives (such as sizing, packaging, pricing decisions, etc.) with financial insights.
• Support business growth opportunities, such as new product development and investment analysis.
• Understand all aspects of the Commercial P&L, act as liaison between Sales Finance and Supply Finance with respect to S&OP planning, cost assumptions, commodity movements, inventory obsolescence, etc.
• Develop strong understanding of all customer trade investment strategies .
• Support Key Account managers providing necessary tools and information for year-end negotiations with customers.
• Manage functionality, usage and continuous improvement of various financial tools, process and procedures.
• Maintain positive and proactive interaction with key stakeholders to ensure ongoing, effective two-way working relationships for exchange of quality financial information.
• Ensure suitable tracking is in place to understand the portfolio performance at a category and SKU level, understanding growth products and drivers, and vulnerable products and drivers; taking action as required.
• Control trade terms, budgeting and provide ROI analysis of promotional activities.

The experience we're looking for

Education:

• Must Haves:
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in business administration (berufsakademie)
• Nice to have:
• Major in Finance

 

Work Experience:

• Must Haves:
• Job experience: 2-3 years’ working experience in Finance/Commercial Controlling
• Nice to have:
• Experience in extremely competitive, fast moving FMCG environment Industry: Branded Consumer Goods companies

 

Functional Skills:

• Must Haves:
• Strong IT & financial systems experience
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong commercial understanding
• Good to advanced accounting knowledge
• Strong MS Excel knowledge
• Nice to have:
• Power BI knowledge is advantage
• SAP knowledge is an advantage

 

Personal skills:

• Must haves:
• Highly analytical self-starter, process-driven and self-motivated with drive and agility
• Structured thinker with well-organized working approach – but comfortable working in a high dynamic and changing environment
• Problem solver with a high result orientation
• Very good communicator capable of building strong working relationships
• Living of our core values: achievement, entrepreneurship, ownership and partnership
• Good team player
• Nice to have:
• International mobility for furth