SAP Business Process Owner - Controlling

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.

​IT & D​

In IT&D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.

Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.

About the role

Could you turn complex SAP processes into a streamlined success? Do you thrive in transforming business workflows across diverse modules? Reckitt is searching for an SAP Business Process Owner like you; an innovative thinker armed with SAP expertise, ready to redefine efficiency in our finance processes. Embark on an exciting journey where your influence will be pivotal in advancing our global SAP landscape, ensuring our systems are future-ready.

This is a strategic and challenging role deploying technologically driven Commercial & Manufacturing Controlling processes in SAP ERP system whilst working with various local business units and ensuring compliance with globally defined policy.

Role involves working alongside, Global Process Owners, Super Users, other functional SAP BPO’s and Solution Architects to enable successful deployments.

The SAP Scope of role is: Product Costing; Inventory Accounting; Internal Order Accounting; Cost Centre Accounting; Budget and Forecast Planning; Manufacturing Variance Analysis; Management & Group Reporting; Profitability Analysis; Cost Controlling; Global Hub Operations.

Your responsibilities

• Ensure financial and operational controls are in place and embedded in the process.
• Review, challenge and escalate change for approvals as required.
• Participate/Lead various Governance meetings.
• Review local process variations to standard.
• Minimize the number of ‘local’ process exceptions.
• Drive change management activities.
• Provide process expertise to project teams.
• Knowledge transfer into markets.
• Act as a point of escalation for process related change requests from deployment teams.
• Write, review, and sign off process documentation & SOP’s including country localizations.
• Support early identification of country variances.
• Work with country teams to drive the implementation of pre-requisites and alignment to operating model.
• Support to the Adoption and Continuous Improvement team

The experience we're looking for

• Degree qualified or equivalent.
• Experience of working in a complex, Matrix organisation with a global scope. FMCG experience desirable but not essential.
• Previous business/finance experience, 5 + years.
• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of End 2 End Controlling processes with working level understanding of R2R and P2P.
• Demonstrable ability to engage and manage different level stakeholders and multicultural audience/s through good communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure.
• Proven ability to deal with and manage conflict.
• Positive & can-do attitude, good team player.
• Demonstrable ability to manage multiple project/s with inter-dependencies.
• Project Management, Six Sigma certifications desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA desirable but not essential (End User or Super User Level).

The skills for success

SAP Implementation, Product Costing, Inventory Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, Cost Centre Accounting, Budget and Forecast Planning, Manufacturing Variance Analysis, Management & Group Reporting, Profitability Analysis, Cost Controlling, Project Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Vendor Management, Outstanding Communication.

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.