Sales Finance Manager

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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

Are you ready to dive into numbers and drive success? Reckitt is on the lookout for a sharp Finance Manager Commercial who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about shaping financial strategies. 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

• Commercial Finance Partnering: Acts as the primary finance business partner for Costco & Walmart account teams, ensuring alignment on commercial plans, annual operating plans (AOP), and quarterly forecasting.
• Trade Spend Management: Governs trade spend for their specific accounts, enforcing funding principles, tracking ROI targets, and optimizing pre & post promotions ROI.
• Performance Analysis: Monitors sales performance versus plan, investigating variances in volume, mix, pricing, and trade rates to recommend corrective actions.
• Profitability Optimization: Delivers actionable insights on customer and product profitability, including analyzing deductions, post-audits, and cost-to-serve.
• Reporting & Modeling: Develops financial models for pricing strategies, promotional effectiveness, and new customer opportunities.

The experience we're looking for

Experience: Min. 4 years in financial planning, commercial finance, or sales finance, with specific CPG experience.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business or Finance required; MBA or certifications (e.g., CPA, CMA) preferred.

Technical Expertise: Proficiency in MS Excel, Powerpoint and ERP systems (SAP, SAP Analytics) and BI tools.

Competencies: Strong communication skills to influence sales partners, analytical mindset, and ability to manage complex trade spend structures. Strong ability to analyze data, build financial models, and create reports in tools like Power BI or Tableau. Proven experience leading or mentoring junior analysts, and comfortable presenting to senior leadership.

The skills for success

Business accumen, 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.

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.