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Junior Supply Finance Controller

City: Heidelberg

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

The Junior Supply Controller supports the Senior Supply Finance Manager in all the areas of COGS & Supply Finance. This role will be supporting the ongoing analysis of COGS by brand/customer, squeeze projects, gross margin analysis, and tracing costs back to underlying activities.

Key finance position in the Reckitt Central Europe Finance organization supporting as a strategic business partner in delivering excellent financial performance while providing a full spectrum of financial control and financial support to the Supply organization within Reckitt CEU.

Your responsibilities

This position has key responsibilities in the following areas:

• Oversight of COGS expenditure across brands and customers
• Support with month-end closing activities, monthly trackers and controls to ensure adherence to expected accounting standards
• Prepare and analyse monthly financial KPIs and provide insightful recommendations to business partners
• Support the Supply Finance budget planning / forecasting process
• Support Supply Business Partners in execution of NWC improvement projects, inventory management and control of slow moving / obsolete products
• Oversight of COGS accruals in balance sheet and avoid any risks to income statement
• Ensure that transfer prices are in line with globally communicated transfer prices, review standard and actual costs for deviations and inaccuracies
• In charge of the product costing cycle within SAP
• Support business growth opportunities by providing COGS input for the new product launches
• Identify risks and opportunities in Supply Finance KPIs and proactively communicate such risks and opportunities

The experience we're looking for

• Minimum Bachelor degree in Businesses Administration or similar qualification
• Master in Finance
• Job experience: 1-2 years’ working experience in Finance/Commercial Controlling
• Experience in extremely competitive, fast moving FMCG environment Industry: Branded Consumer Goods companies
• Strong IT & financial systems experience
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong commercial understanding
• Good to advanced accounting knowledge
• Strong MS Excel knowledge
• Power BI knowledge is an advantage
• SAP knowledge is an advantage

The skills for success

Business Accumen, Improve business processes, Project management, Financial systems, Improve business processes, Accounting Principles, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, Stakeholder engagement and influence.

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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