Finance Trainee

About Us

We’re Reckitt, home to the world’s best loved and trusted hygiene and health 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.

About the Global Business Services

Behind our iconic power brands that touch millions of lives daily – from Dettol and Lysol to Durex and Nurofen – lies a dynamic and vital engine: Reckitt's Global Business Services (GBS). Fuelled by a culture of positive energy and co-creativity - while learning together - OneReckitt GBS is at the forefront of our business, driving efficiency, standardisation, and innovation across our global operations. We're a fast-paced, purposeful team, constantly seeking to optimise our processes, leverage cutting edge technology, and deliver exceptional value to every corner of Reckitt. We’re not a traditional back-office function; we’re a strategic powerhouse where diverse individuals with bright minds come together to solve complex challenges, shape future capabilities, and build a better global business that directly helps achieve Reckitt’s mission.

About the role

The Finance Trainee plays a critical role in delivering accurate, compliant, and insight-driven finance operations across core finance processes. The role supports transactional excellence, financial controls, reporting accuracy, business partnering, and continuous improvement initiatives across Record to Report (R2R), Source to Pay (STP), FP&A, and Finance Operations activities.

The role requires strong analytical capability, operational discipline, stakeholder collaboration, and a continuous improvement mindset to support Reckitt’s performance-driven culture.

Your responsibilities

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Finance, Accounting, or related discipline.
• MBA Finance / CA Inter / CMA Inter preferred
• Typically 1–3 years of relevant finance or shared services experience.
• Experience in multinational or global business services environments preferred.

The skills for success

• Understanding of finance and accounting principles.
• Knowledge of R2R, STP, FP&A, and finance operational processes.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and reporting tools.
• Exposure to ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, or similar systems.
• Good analytical, reconciliation, and reporting skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management capability.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.

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.