Associate Sales Controller (12-month FTC)

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

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

• Drive month-end closing process ensuring correct bookings and timely analysis of performance. 
• Support with sales plans, forecasts, outlooks and strategic views.
• Support for strategic business initiatives (such as sizing, packaging, pricing decisions, etc.) with financial insights.
• Support business growth opportunities, such as new product development and investment analysis.
• Understand all aspects of the Commercial P&L, act as liaison between Sales Finance and Supply Finance with respect to S&OP planning, cost assumptions, commodity movements, inventory obsolescence, etc.
• Develop strong understanding of all customer trade investment strategies .
• Support Key Account managers providing necessary tools and information for year-end negotiations with customers.
• Manage functionality, usage and continuous improvement of various financial tools, process and procedures.
• Maintain positive and proactive interaction with key stakeholders to ensure ongoing, effective two-way working relationships for exchange of quality financial information.
• Ensure suitable tracking is in place to understand the portfolio performance at a category and SKU level, understanding growth products and drivers, and vulnerable products and drivers; taking action as required.
• Control trade terms, budgeting and provide ROI analysis of promotional activities.

The experience we're looking for

Education:

• Must Haves:
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in business administration (berufsakademie)
• Nice to have:
• Major in Finance

Work Experience:

• Must Haves:
• Job experience: 2-3 years’ working experience in Finance/Commercial Controlling
• Nice to have:
• Experience in extremely competitive, fast moving FMCG environment Industry: Branded Consumer Goods companies

Functional Skills:

• Must Haves:
• Strong IT & financial systems experience
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong commercial understanding
• Good to advanced accounting knowledge
• Strong MS Excel knowledge
• Nice to have:
• Power BI knowledge is advantage
• SAP knowledge is an advantage

Personal skills:

• Must haves:
• Highly analytical self-starter, process-driven and self-motivated with drive and agility
• Structured thinker with well-organized working approach – but comfortable working in a high dynamic and changing environment
• Problem solver with a high result orientation
• Very good communicator capable of building strong working relationships
• Living of our core values: achievement, entrepreneurship, ownership and partnership
• Good team player
• Nice to have:
• International mobility for further career steps

Language skills:

• Must haves:
• Excellent English (able to present and negotiate in English)
• Nice to have:
• Speaks German or is open to learn it

Career Perspective:

• Lateral Move:
• Associate Controller roles within Region.
• Promotion:
• Controller Roles within Region.

The skills for success

Project Management, Financial Reporting, Accounting principles, Financial Analysis and reporting.

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.