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Sales & Brand 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

Are you ready to dive into numbers and drive success? Reckitt is on the lookout for a sharp Sales & Brand Controller who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about shaping financial strategies. 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.

The Purpose of the role is to Analyze sales performance and provide insight to Sales while ensuring strict accounting policies for Gross to Net, Drive RGM and feed into Budgeting & Forecasting

it is a Key finance position in Reckitt CEU Finance organization supporting the Commercial leaders as a strategic business partner in delivering profitable financial growth while providing a full spectrum of financial control and financial support to the brands/customers within Reckitt.

Your responsibilities

• Prepare timely and accurate category/sales plans, forecasts, outlooks and strategic views
• Provide market analysis to understand and explain significant category/customer performance variations from historical or expected results
• Ensure a seat at the decision table and provide high caliber respected advice / information for all strategic business initiatives (such as sizing, packaging, pricing decisions, etc)
• Support and challenge (if necessary) category assumptions in analyzing and implementing business growth opportunities, such as new product development and investment analysis
• Drive and understand all aspects of the Commercial P&L, act as liaison between category management and Supply Finance with respect to S&OP planning, cost assumptions, commodity movements, squeeze targets, inventory obsolescence, etc.
• Develop strong understanding of all category / 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 sales/marketing departments 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

Minimum bachelor’s degree in business administration (Berufsakademie)
Job experience: 3-5 years’ working experience in Finance/Commercial Controlling
Strong IT & financial systems experience
Strong analytical skills
Strong commercial understanding
Good to advanced accounting knowledge
Strong MS Excel knowledge
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 highly 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
Excellent English (able to present and negotiate in English)

The skills for success

Business accumen, Investment Analysis, Budgeting & Forecasting, Project Management, Improve business processes, Accounting principles, Financial Reporting, Internal controls, Financial analysis and reporting, Stakeholder engagement and influence, Strategic thinking, Risk management, Relationship 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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