Sales Finance 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

Please note this is a 6 month Fixed Term Contract.

The Finance Analyst monitors the Commercial KPIs, strengthens the commercial and financial controls; and reviews all the commercial spends of the region. Primarily interacts with the Sales teams and Trade Marketing as a business partner to help deliver across commercial KPIs. The role owner is required to be the controller for all trade spend related activities, ensuring they go through a robust financial analysis, are approved by the relevant authority and monitors effective market execution and transfer of incentives.

Your responsibilities

- Ensure monitoring and effective operation of

Commercial KPIs

- Trade Spends against Plan/Forecasts

- Stocks levels at DB

- Stock reconciliation

- DB audits

- Sales Returns and disposals

- Price grids & product costing

- Implement ROI improvement in Trade initiatives

- Manage trade spend budget with budget owners (trade marketing) and ensure spends are in line with all approvals

- Conduct Pre and Post evaluation of Consumer and Trade Promos

- Support with internal and external Audit for commercial function

- Drive improvement and automation across the trade spend review process to ensure minimal manual intervention

- Drive Productivity agenda across commercial function to deliver savings as per targets

- Price list management: Ensure correct price lists are provided to customers, sales team and captured in RB systems

- Perform checks on effective executions of activities in trade and correct transfer of incentives to trade/customers

- Develop a robust mechanism to verify and process all trade related claims timely and with utmost accuracy

- Carry out reconciliation with customers to ensure there is no spend that is carried out without due approval and all spend is brought to Reckitt’s knowledge

- Collaborate with customer finance teams to help ensure correctness and accuracy of information being shared to Reckitt

The experience we're looking for

- Professional qualification/Undergraduate/Postgraduate Degree in Finance/Accounting with relevant experience in industry

- Minimum 1 - 2 years experience

- Advanced Excel skills (PivotTables, financial modeling, scenario analysis)

The skills for success

Business Acumen, analytical Skills, detailed orientated, financial analysis, proactive, results driven, communication skills, presentation skills

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.