Head of Finance, Canada - Essential Home

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

Seize the opportunity at Reckitt, where your expertise will be vital in managing the financial complexities of a dynamic international market. In this critical role, you'll navigate the fascinating world of international logistics, ensuring the seamless flow of goods while adeptly controlling costs and collaborating closely with the tax department. Your financial acumen will help steer a path to efficiency and sustained growth for our globally recognized business. Are you ready for the challenge? 

The Head of Finance  is the lead finance role in our Essential Home unit in Canada.  This role works closely with local & regional leadership teams, provides key insights, support strategic decisions and enables commercial partners to live company’s operating model.

Your responsibilities

Business Partnering
• Partner with senior leadership and commercial teams to provide data driven insights and support strategic decision-making.
• Act as the key finance partner to sales, marketing, and supply chain teams, driving financial accountability.
• Influence business decisions through robust financial analysis and narrative, ensuring profitable growth and sustainable investments.

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Lead the budgeting, forecasting financial planning processes, ensuring alignment with business objectives and group requirements
• Provide insightful financial analysis to drive decision-making on revenue, margins, and cost optimization.
• Through financial modelling, support strategic initiatives, scenario planning, and investment decisions.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide variance analysis with actionable recommendations.
• Deliver 13 week rolling cash flow forecasting.

Trade & Revenue Management
• Oversee trade spend analysis, ensuring efficiency and return on investment (ROI) for promotional activities and discounts.
• Partner with sales and commercial teams to optimize pricing, trade terms, and channel profitability.
• Ensure accurate accruals and reporting for trade spend, balancing growth with financial discipline.
• Identify opportunities to enhance margin management and profitability across product categories and channels.

Marketing & Brand Investment
• Work closely with marketing team to evaluate the financial impact of brand investments and campaigns.
• Provide financial governance over marketing budgets, ensuring spend efficiency and alignment with strategic goals.
• Track closely the marketing ROI and recommend improvements based on insights.
• Monitor product profitability and support innovation pipeline with financial viability analysis.

Cost Optimization & Profitability Management
• Identify and implement cost efficiency initiatives without compromising business growth.
• Drive margin improvement strategies, balancing pricing, mix, and cost levers.

Leadership & Governance
• Lead and develop a high-performing commercial finance team, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with financial controls, policies, and reporting standards.

The experience we're looking for

• Degree in Economics/Finance - MBA and /or CPA is considered a plus
• 10+ years of post-qualification work experience, preferably in Commercial Finance/FP&A in CPG industry
• Proven team management and people development is considered a plus
• Strong Functional Expertise: Excellent understanding of P&L, Balance sheet and Cash flow & ability to triangulate understanding across
• Experience with SAP ERP is considered a plus
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to create an environment and organizational structure which facilitates the achievement of the team's short-term goals and long term objectives.
• Excellent communication skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Tenacity and resilience
• Entrepreneurial attitude in managing activities and projects.
• Cross-functional business partnering and financial leadership 
• Ownership, curiosity
• Outgoing and dynamic personality with a high level of energy and drive
• Business Acumen
• Positive Can-Do attitude
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment

The skills for success

Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Project Management, Programme Management, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Change Management, Adoption, Technology Adoption Lifecycle, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Vendor Management, Outstanding Communication, stakeholder engagement.

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.