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Sales Finance Manager

City:  Kuala Lumpur

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

We are seeking a highly driven and commercially astute Sales Finance Manager to join our Finance team in Malaysia. This is a critical leadership role that partners closely with Sales, Trade Marketing, and Senior Management to drive profitable growth, improve commercial decision-making, and strengthen governance across trade investment activities. The successful candidate will provide strategic financial leadership, robust commercial support, and end-to-end ownership of trade spend effectiveness while driving system efficiencies and strong financial controls.

Your responsibilities

•    Partner with Sales and Commercial teams to drive profitable growth and optimize customer investments.
•    Assist in forecasting, budgeting, financial planning, and performance reviews for Trade spends.
•    Provide insightful analysis of sales performance, profitability, pricing, and customer returns.
•    Own trade spend governance, controls, rebate management, and promotional investment effectiveness.
•    Conduct pre-event and post-event ROI analysis and provide recommendations.
•    Drive process simplification, automation, and system efficiency initiatives.
•    Lead cross-functional projects and influence business decisions through data-driven insights.
•    Build strong relationships with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance stakeholders.

The experience we're looking for

•    Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or related discipline.
•    Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in Sales Finance, Commercial Finance, FP&A, or Business Partnering.
•    Professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, or equivalent is an added advantage.
•    Strong experience in trade spend management, financial analysis, forecasting, and profitability management.
•    Experience driving governance, controls, process improvements, and system efficiencies.
•    Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; SAP, BW, BPC, or BI tools experience preferred.

 

Key Competencies
•    Strong commercial acumen and strategic thinking.
•    Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and financial modeling skills.
•    Ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge constructively.
•    Strong communication and presentation skills.
•    Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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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