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
We are seeking a highly driven and commercially astute Sales Finance Manager to provide strategic financial leadership and business partnering support to Sales and Commercial teams. This critical role drives profitable growth, strengthens trade spend governance, enhances sales accounting controls, maintains balance sheet integrity, and leads continuous system and process improvements.
The successful candidate will partner closely with Sales Leadership, Country Leadership and cross-functional teams to optimize customer investments, improve decision-making, support transformation projects, and ensure strong financial stewardship across the commercial organization.
Your responsibilities
- Act as a trusted finance business partner to Sales and Commercial teams, providing strategic insights to drive profitable growth.
- Assist sales forecasting, budgeting, monthly performance reviews, and financial planning activities.
- Provide profitability, pricing, customer, and channel analysis to support business decisions.
- Own trade spend governance, rebate controls, promotional investment reviews, and ROI evaluation.
- Perform pre-event and post-event trade spend effectiveness analysis and recommend optimization opportunities.
- Ensure strong sales accounting controls, accurate accrual management, and compliance with financial policies.
- Drive balance sheet governance by ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely reconciliation of trade-related accounts.
- Support month-end and year-end closing activities, financial commentary, and management reporting.
- Lead process simplification, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
- Partner with regional and global teams on systems implementation and transformation projects.
- Support design, testing, deployment, and stabilization activities for new systems and process changes.
- Lead cross-functional projects and influence stakeholders through actionable, data-driven recommendations.
The experience we're looking for
- Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or related discipline.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in Sales Finance, Commercial Finance, FP&A, Business Partnering, or related finance roles.
- ACCA, CPA, CIMA, or equivalent professional qualification is an added advantage.
- Strong experience in trade spend management, financial planning, forecasting, and profitability analysis.
- Experience with balance sheet management, sales accounting controls, and financial governance.
- Proven track record in process improvement, system implementation, and transformation projects.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; SAP, BW, BPC, Power BI, Trade Vision, or similar tools preferred.
Key Competencies
- Strong commercial acumen and strategic thinking.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and financial modeling skills.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive business outcomes.
- Strong communication and presentation capabilities.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for systems and process optimization.
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.
