Financial Analyst, Sales (Mead Johnson Nutrition)

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 role of the Financial Analyst is responsible for managing customer P&L performance reporting, optimizing trade spend, ensuring accurate financial records, and providing strategic insights to senior management while collaborating with sales, finance, and IT teams to drive data-driven decision-making and process improvements.

Your responsibilities

Performance Management and Trade Spend Excellence

    -Maintain and enhance customer P&L performance management reporting, ensuring timeliness and accuracy on monthly deliverables.
    -Control and analyze trade spend, customer margins, providing insights, budget optimization and opportunities, key drivers vs forecast and concise reporting to senior management.
    -Responsible for month end close process on trade accruals, write offs, timely and compliant adjustments in system. Ensure the accuracy and integrity of accounting records/financial systems, collaborating with the broader finance team and IT&D.
    -Track and report on financial aspects of sales strategic investment business cases
    -Support the organization on new initiatives, system enhancements, report automation and ad-hoc requests

Business Partnering

    -Deliver financial support to Sales, driving performance through data-driven insights and story telling
    -Collaborate with Finance and IT&D team members to produce management reports with key insights, analysis, and recommendations utilizing key systems such as Power BI, SAC and Microsoft Excel based reports.
    -Actively participate in monthly sales and finance review meetings, offering critical analysis and strategic insights
    -Contribute and collaborate with sales, drive trade spend optimization initiatives to improve KPIs

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field

• Strong understanding of financial statements, particularly P&L
• 1–3 years of commercial finance experience, preferably in CPG market environments
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel; knowledge of SAP, SAC, Fusion, and PowerBI is advantageous
• Robust commercial analysis, modeling, and presentation skills
• Experience working in agile environments
• Exceptional time management and task prioritization abilities
• Excellent communication skills for effective business partner interactions
• This role is not currently sponsoring visas or considering international movement at this time.

The skills for success

• Accounting principles
• Financial systems expertise
• Strong communication skills
• Project management proficiency
• Business partnering acumen
• Process improvement orientation

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.

US salary ranges

USD $78,000.00  -  $116,000.00

US pay transparency

The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law.  In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year.

Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick, and Company recognized holidays; a 401(K) plan; generous paid parental leave; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; product discounts; and much more!

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact NAtalentacquisition@reckitt.com. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

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.