Assistant Finance Manager

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

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager – Global R&D, you will play an important role in supporting the financial management of the Global R&D function. Working closely with senior stakeholders across R&D & Global Finance, you will provide insightful analysis, support planning and forecasting activities, and help drive robust financial governance across the organisation. This is a varied role offering exposure to business partnering, financial reporting & people cost management.

Your responsibilities

• Support the Senior Finance Manager in the reporting and analysis of Global R&D costs, ensuring alignment across stakeholders and providing value-added commentary on variances versus Plan, Forecast and Prior Year.
• Deliver accurate and timely monthly performance reporting, including variance analysis of actuals, budget, forecast and prior year results.
• Support Senior Finance Manager – Global R&D with preparation of the annual budget & quarterly forecasts, partnering with global stakeholders to ensure high-quality submissions and robust assumptions
• Lead the reporting and analysis of people’s costs for R&D Category and Product Development Management (PDM) teams, ensuring organisational changes are accurately reflected in forecasts and plans.
• Partner with stakeholders to strengthen people cost reporting, providing insight into headcount movements, vacancy management and Organisational design impacts.
• Act as a key finance contact for the SVPs of Categories, PDM and Medical Science and their leadership teams, supporting approximately 60% of their budget base through reporting, forecasting and financial analysis.
• Support the governance, preparation and processing of intercompany recharges, ensuring compliance with internal policies and accounting requirements.
• Support the continuous improvement of reporting processes, leveraging automation and digital tools to enhance efficiency, accuracy and insight generation.
• Build strong relationships across Corporate, R&D and GBU finance teams to ensure consistent financial management and reporting practices.
• Support the Senior Finance Manager, Global R&D, in ad-hoc analysis and requests for information. E.g. R&D ROI, Global portfolio KPI’s etc.

The experience we're looking for

• 2-3 years of experience in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• Part-qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent) with experience in financial analysis, planning, forecasting, or business partnering.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large datasets.

The skills for success

• Stakeholder Management & Business Partnering – ability to build relationships and communicate financial information effectively to senior stakeholders
• Advanced Excel & Data Analysis – strong Excel skills and experience working with large and complex datasets.
• Planning & Prioritization – highly organized with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset – proactive, curious, and focused on identifying opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.

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.