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Senior Finance Analyst, CFC Controller

City: Parsippany

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 Team

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 Finance Director, FP&A will support the team with all elements relative to the monthly close period for the Nutrition Commercial Fixed Costs.

Your responsibilities

+ Responsible for all elements of the monthly close as it relates to overall CFCs, including distribution of monthly and YTD spending reports, processing and analysis of new and existing accruals and tracking CFC spend.

+ Perform CFC 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.

+ Report against MJN FFG initiatives, in accordance with HQ requirements and cadence. Help identify future potential opportunities for efficiency / productivity.

+ Business Partnership: Work directly with Cost Center owners during FC scenarios to align budgets and understand movements/deviations from previous FCs. Ensures our financial systems (SAC/Fusion/myRB) are updated accordingly and align with expectations.

+ Maintain positive and proactive interaction between cost center owners and Finance to ensure ongoing exchange of quality financial information.

+ Understand and communicate our overall business performance and its impact to budgets.

+ Special projects or analyses as required. There will be opportunity to lean into FP&A work in this role, rough expectation would be 10-30% of time will be allocated to FP&A

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

+ Excellent communication skills for effective business partner interactions

The skills for success

+ Accounting principles

+ Financial systems expertise

+ Strong communication skills

+ Project management proficiency

+ Business partnering acumen

+ Process improvement orientation

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.

**Nearest Major Market:** New York City

**Nearest Secondary Market:** Newark

**Job Segment:** Counseling, Nutrition, Healthcare