Senior Financial Analyst

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

The role of the Senior Financial Analyst reporting into the Senior Finance Manager will support the team with all elements relative to the monthly close period for the Nutrition Commercial Marketing team.

Your responsibilities

•    Responsible for all elements of the monthly close as it relates to overall marketing, including distribution of monthly and YTD spending reports, processing and analysis of new and existing accruals and tracking MTD marketing spend. 
•    Review financial performance (GS to PC) on brands against FC/PL estimates to provide insights to Finance leadership during monthly internal MFR reviews.  In addition, provides insights on our external performance from a POS/Inventory view to help provide insights on any risk/opportunity to the business.
•    Perform marketing spend analysis by each budget line, isolating and discussing underspends and overspend with respective teams, tracking YTD trends, calling out potential risks and opportunities. 
•    Support the financial planning process (Plan / Quarterly FCs) by aligning with teams on planned marketing spend, aligning on risks and opportunities and adjusting forecast accordingly. 
•    Business Partnership: Work directly with marketing during FC scenarios to align budgets and understand movements/deviations from previous FCs.  Ensures our financial systems (Anaplan/Fusion/Allocadia) are updated accordingly and align with expectations.
•    External Performance Analytics: Responsible for working with Marketing teams to understand drivers for our external performance from a POS/Inventory view.  This is critical to our MFR meetings and allows us to ensure we are tracking to our estimates.
•    Innovation / New Product Projects: Responsible for working with teams to gather all financial inputs for MPL approvals.  Analyze each project and questions team back on inputs to ensure financial targets (GS, TI, NR, GM) are met before proceeding with approvals.  
•    Maintain positive and proactive interaction with Marketing and Finance to ensure ongoing exchange of quality financial information. 
•    Special projects or analyses as required.
•    This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field

• Strong understanding of financial statements, particularly P&L
• 3–5 years of commercial finance experience, preferably in CPG market environments
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel; as well as knowledge of SAP, SAC, Blackline, Anaplan, and PowerBI.
• Robust commercial analysis, modeling, and presentation skills
• Experience working in agile environments
• Exceptional time management and task prioritization abilities
• Excell