Senior Finance Analyst, Corporate Accounting

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

This role provides the opportunity for an experienced and ambitious finance professional to work at the Corporate HQ of a dynamic and successful FTSE 20 Company.
 

The Senior Finance Analyst - Corporate Accounting is an important point of contact for the global finance community in applying all aspects of IFRS and the Group finance policy. The candidate will need to display both excellent subject matter expertise and high personal integrity. In addition, while the role has a technical accounting focus, it involves regular engagement with Reckitt teams around the world and hence requires strong communication and interpersonal skills. 

Your responsibilities

• Ensure the group is compliant with all current and new accounting standards (IFRS), listing rules (UK LSE) and all other relevant regulatory requirements.
• Review and develop accounting policies in line with evolving business requirements of the Group.
• Work alongside the finance manager to own the accounting for complex accounting areas, including IFRS 2, IFRS 15 and IFRS 16.
• Helping to drive the accounting of significant corporate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals. You will also need to work with Group Treasury, Tax and other Internal departments to ensure that accounting implications of proposed transactions are identified and addressed early.
• Build strong relationships across wide geographies in order to effectively support operational finance teams and ensure consistency in the interpretation and application of Reckitt accounting treatments and finance policies.
• Liaise effectively with the external auditors, together with key internal stakeholders, in order to ensure the year-end audit runs smoothly and efficiently.
• Support other members of the wider Corporate Control team, contribute to the overall effectiveness of the team, add value and develop performance and play an integral role in the ongoing organisational transformation.

The experience we're looking for

• Qualified ACA with minimum of 1 year PQE – first time passes essential.
• Knowledge of IFRS essential.
• Proven experience of providing detailed technical accounting advice to international organisations.
• The most relevant experience for this role will be either commercial or practice-based analysis and interpretation of accounting standards, and the provision of technical accounting advice to commercial organisations, ideally including FMCG organisations and / or large UK listed corporations.

The skills for success

Accounting principles, Financial systems, Improve business processes.

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.