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GBS Finance Head

City: Ciudad de Mexico

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

Join us supporting the financial operations of our Mexico hub. You’ll lead cost center setup, manage budgets, and drive planning and forecasting, while partnering closely with our UK GBS Finance team. This role offers the chance to influence transformation initiatives, optimize costs, and implement productivity improvements in a dynamic, global environment.

Your responsibilities

Local Hub Setup: Establish and manage cost centers and related structures.
Stakeholder Liaison: Act as the main point of contact for all local stakeholders regarding cost elements and initiatives to strengthen the brand.
Month-End Closing & Variance Analysis: Ensure accurate reporting and analysis of financial variances.
Budgetary Control: Oversee internal and third-party costs, including purchase order (PO) support and GRIR management.
Planning & Forecasting: Prepare and load all necessary data for planning and forecasting cycles.
Collaboration with GBS Finance Manager (UK): Align on hub plans and forecasts to ensure consistency and accuracy.
Captive Cost Management: Monitor and control captive costs effectively.
Productivity Initiatives: Identify and implement ideas to drive captive productivity and deliver cost savings.

The experience we're looking for

We are looking for a qualified accountant with experience in a similar industry and prior exposure to Shared Services or Global Business Services (GBS) environments. The ideal candidate should demonstrate the following critical skills:

Comfort with Ambiguity: Ability to navigate uncertain or evolving situations effectively.
Agility in Prioritization: Skilled at managing and adjusting multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
GBS Expertise: Strong understanding of processes and best practices within GBS operations.
Financial Impact Awareness: Ability to interpret Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and assess their financial implications.
Transformation Insight: Understanding of transformation initiatives, their financial impact, and capability to track progress and outcomes.

The skills for success

Financial reporting, Accounting principles, Stakeholder engagement and influence, Improve business processes, Financial systems, Project 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.

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