Sales Controller (18 month FTC)

Reckitt Benckiser LLC; Heidelberg; Vor Ort; EUR 45.000 - 65.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A global consumer goods company in Heidelberg is seeking a Finance professional to analyze data for profit growth and contribute to strategic business decisions. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, a bachelor's degree in business administration, and excellent communication abilities in English. This role offers a dynamic work environment with competitive benefits in line with Reckitt's pay-for-performance philosophy.

Leistungen

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Short-term incentives

Qualifikationen

• Must have strong analytical skills and good to advanced accounting knowledge.
• Must be a highly analytical self-starter with structured thinking.

Aufgaben

• Prepare category/sales plans and forecasts.
• Provide market analysis for performance variations.
• Support and challenge category assumptions.

Kenntnisse

Strong analytical skills

Good to advanced accounting knowledge

Strong MS Excel knowledge

Excellent English

Power BI knowledge

SAP knowledge

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in business administration

Major in Finance

Jobbeschreibung

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 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 stellar opportunity to emerge as a financial champion, analysing data to fuel profit growth and taking the reins of our economic health. With your insights, we'll streamline costs, bolster financial fortitude, and map out a prosperous future. If you're eager to see your financial acumen manifest into tangible success, we'd love to welcome you aboard.

Your responsibilities

• Prepare timely and accurate category/sales plans, forecasts, outlooks, and strategic views.
• Provide market analysis to understand and explain significant category/customer performance variations from historical or expected results.
• Ensure a seat at the decision‑making table and provide high‑caliber, respected advice and information for all strategic business initiatives (such as sizing, packaging, pricing decisions, etc.).
• Support and challenge (if necessary) category assumptions when analyzing and implementing business growth opportunities, such as new product development and investment analysis.
• Drive and understand all aspects of the Commercial P&L, act as a liaison between category management and supply finance with respect to S&OP planning, cost assumptions, commodity movements, squeeze targets, inventory obsolescence, etc.
• Develop a strong understanding of all category/customer trade investment strategies.
• Support Key Account Managers by providing necessary tools and information for year‑end negotiations with customers.
• Manage the functionality, usage, and continuous improvement of various financial tools, processes, and procedures.
• Maintain positive and proactive interaction with sales departments to ensure ongoing, effective two‑way working relationships and the exchange of quality financial information.
• Control trade terms, manage budgeting, and provide ROI analysis of promotional activities.

The experience we're looking for

Education:

• Must Haves:
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in business administration (berufsakademie)
• Nice to have:
• Major in Finance

Work Experience:

• Must Haves:

  Functional Skills:

  • Must Haves:
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Good to advanced accounting knowledge
  • Strong MS Excel knowledge
  • Nice to have:
  • Power BI knowledge is advantage
  • SAP knowledge is an advantage

  Personal skills:

  • Must haves:
  • Highly analytical self‑starter, process‑driven and self‑motivated with drive and agility
  • Structured thinker with well‑organized working approach – but comfortable working in a high dynamic and changing environment
  • Problem solver with a high result orientation
  • Very good communicator capable of building strong working relationships
  • Living of our core values: achievement, entrepreneurship, ownership and partnership
  • Good team player
  • Nice to have:
  • International mobility for further career steps
  • Must haves:
  • Excellent English (able to present and negotiate in English)
  • Nice to have:
  • Speaks German or is open to learn it
  • Lateral Move:
  • Controller roles within Region or Internationally (e.g. Supply, Marketing or CFC)
  • Promotion:
  • Senior Controller Roles within Region or Internationally.

  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.