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Supply Finance Controller

City: Toronto

We are Reckitt

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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 is a key finance business partner role within the finance organization. This position will work cross-functionally with the Supply leadership to drive strategic initiatives and will work with various functional leaders in a fast-paced environment on strategic and financial issues to help drive positive change in the organization.

This individual will lead Supply Finance reporting & Gross Margin management for Reckitt Canada business and work collaboratively with leadership team & functional leads to drive country Gross Margin - while providing right analytical inputs & holding each function responsible for the P&L delivery. Also, this role will lead the operational cadence on Logistics, Warehousing & inventory management along with Supply team - including various ad hoc analyses, as well as responsible for providing financial expertise and analysis grounded on strong understanding of business & internal and external data.

This individual will not be afraid of getting his/her hands into the details to navigate seamlessly through a variety of tasks and effectively manage changing priorities in a fast-paced organization, while also strategically working on defining the key priorities in the multi-year Supply Planning.

As such we are seeking a commercially minded, pragmatic and enthusiastic Finance Leader who can seamlessly work with our Supply & Finance colleagues spread across functions & also our global factories to drive and deliver value to the organisation.

Your responsibilities

Lead the Supply Finance Planning & Business partnering:
- Work with Supply teams to continually optimise spends, while driving strategic choices
- Driving meaningful analytics on underlying Margin performance – Including portfolio mix discussions in right forums.
- Drive robust understanding & reporting of End-to-End Margin in the organisation - Including driving Margins through regular operational actions & decisions.
Lead the Planning & Forecasting process for Supply:
- Lead Canada Supply Planning & Forecasting process, partnering with Supply Director.
- Prepare & review the Supply cost plans and forecasts for alignment with business objectives.
- Key contributor to the overall country Planning & Forecasting process.

Business Partnering & Spends Analytics:
- Monthly Supply KPI reviews along with Supply & business leadership - Driving spend management & keeping the Management Team updated with any variances and supporting analytics to drive actions.
- Supply cost analytics to drive right Supply KPI discussions, Productivity update and budget-variance analytics.
- Partnering closely with Supply Director to drive overall strategic functional priorities.
- Driving Supply-led cost productivity initiatives, including Sourcing studies, Warehousing cost optimisation, Freight process improvements

Finance Transformation:
- Support Finance Director on global Finance Transformation & shape that for Reckitt Canada.
- Including projects significantly simplify work for the team - Leveraging advanced systems.

The experience we're looking for

Professional Finance certifications, such as CA/CPA/CMA/MBA
5-7 years of post-qualification work experience
Highly Preferred - Commercial Finance or FP&A experience in CPG industry.

The skills for success

Business accumen, Investment Analysis, Budgeting & Forecasting, Project Management, Improve business processes, Accounting principles, Financial Reporting, Internal controls, Financial analysis and reporting, Stakeholder engagement and influence, Strategic thinking, Risk management, Relationship management.

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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