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BLC Transformation Manager - Commercial

City: Uxbridge

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

As part of Finance Transformation at Reckitt, your role will be pivotal in revolutionising our Finance processes and evolving how Finance activities are delivered across our organisation, with a focus on improving consistency and standardisation, simplifying ways of working and enabling scalability in Planning & Business Partnering. The role will focus on creating a more connected and collaborative operating model through best-in-class enterprise-wide processes enabled by greater use of technology and automation. You’ll work closely with teams in markets and factories to co-develop approaches that reflect local needs while aligning with broader business goals. You will be the orchestrator of change, propelling the Finance team towards our vision of becoming a world class Finance function. This is an opportunity to leave your mark on a leading global organisation and to grow with us as we pave the way for the future.

Your responsibilities

The role will be instrumental in designing and implementing simplified future fit processes and structures that enable better insights and outcomes. You will build and operationalise a new Finance operating model; design, build and deployment of the future Finance activities. It will encompass analysis of business requirements and partnership with stakeholders across the business to align and approve new simplified and standardised processes, building capability across both project and operational teams, management of the transition and development of new roles, responsibilities, RACI, operational cadence, and associated governance model. You will leverage the wider enterprise processes, systems and technology needed to deliver a future proof Finance decision support model underpinned by strong data integrity and automation.

You will be responsible for identification and management of inter-dependencies across other Finance workstreams and across other enterprise-wide Transformation programmes, ensuring risks and issues are mitigated whilst capitalising on synergies wherever possible.

Finance transformation is about enabling our teams to focus more on strategic value add work, supported by better processes, tools and data. It’s a collaborative journey that will only be possible through partnership and collaboration across all teams.

Design and implement Reckitt’s standardised future Planning and Business Partnering processes.

Work with key stakeholders from specific markets/factories to obtain input and guidance on the design and implementation.
Support the development of a future-state RACI.
Utilise a high level of process proficiency and considerable experience to build capability within both the project and end-state operating teams, allowing for the smooth integration of any new processes into business-as-usual practice.
Prepare and present updates to programme leadership and workstream leads.
Champion the new P&BP operating model, working closely with the OCM team to ensure it is adopted.

The experience we're looking for

Recognised professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CIMA, or equivalent.
Considerable experience in Commercial Finance/Manufacturing Finance & FP&A with a good understanding of Reckitt’s processes and ways of working
Understanding of data and information flow and dependencies in FP&A and wider Finance processes
Good knowledge of decision-making structures at Reckitt
Experience in driving and implementing process and technology improvement initiatives locally or globally.
Experience of working in a dynamic, high performing team, time-pressured and results oriented environment, globally and with virtual teams.
Excellent networking skills (across multiple functions, business units, external stakeholders) and competence in change management and stakeholder engagement
Excellent English language skills both verbal and written.
Effective and impactful communication skills with an ability to articulate complex concepts in concise language.

Personal attributes

High degree of gravitas and experience working with stakeholders at all levels.
High degree of change agility, ability to navigate and take decisions in an ambiguous environment.
Self-driven confident individual, passionate about continuous improvement, modern technology, finding opportunities and driving simplification.
Strong critical analysis, problem solving and risk mitigation skills.
High degree of resilience and fortitude. Ability to navigate setbacks positively.
Collaborative and transparent ways of working, effective in virtual teams

The skills for success

Financial systems, Transformation, ACCA, CPA, CIMA, Stakeholder engagement and influence.

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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