Senior Finance Manager, Independent Trade & Pharma

Reckitt; Slough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Reckitt is seeking a Senior Finance Manager for Independent Trade & Pharma to transform global trade processes. The successful candidate will drive efficiency improvements and support ERP implementations within a strategic finance team dedicated to sustainable growth.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Global share plans

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of trade processes is essential.
• Operational experience in sales finance, ideally 8+ years.
• Experience in large-scale transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Drive transformation and efficiency of global processes for Distributor and Pharma channels.
• Design and maintain trade processes ensuring efficiency and risk management.
• Support embedding major process changes driven by ERP systems.

Skills

Budgeting & forecasting

Financial systems

Improve business processes

Accounting principles

Financial reporting

Financial analysis and reporting

Strategic thinking

Project management

Stakeholder engagement and influence

Tools

SAP

Job description

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 theSenior Finance Manager, Independent Trade & Pharma, you will be at the forefront of transforming and continuously improving our global processes for Distributor and Pharma channels. Your mission is to design and maintain standard global end-to-end trade processes, ensuring efficiency, simplification, and risk management. You will support major process changes driven by ERP implementations and other trade systems, engaging with local teams to identify improvement and standardisation opportunities. Your role is pivotal in owning global process changes and driving continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities

• Own and drive transformation, continuous improvement, efficiency, and simplification of the global process for Distributor and Pharma channels.
• Design and maintain standard global end-to-end trade processes for Reckitt.
• Ensure risks are managed throughout the end-to-end process.
• Support the embedding of major process changes driven by ERP or other trade systems.
• Engage with local teams to identify improvement and standardisation opportunities.
• Develop the transformation roadmap for the trade process and drive it to completion.
• Partner with the controls team to ensure the trade process is scalable, repeatable, and efficient end-to-end.
• Drive process standardisation, simplification, innovation, and automation.

The experience we're looking for

• Demonstrable in-depth knowledge and understanding of trade processes.
• Knowledge of trade-related processes in SAP, particularly O2C and finance.
• Experience working in a transformation programme and driving significant change through a global business process.
• Operational business experience in the sales finance area (ideally 8+ years).
• Experience working in large-scale transformation programmes that are multi-country.
• Experience working in a complex, matrix organisation with a global scope. FMCG experience is desirable but not essential.
• Strong business analytical skills.
• Demonstrable ability to engage and manage senior stakeholders and multicultural audiences.

The skills for success Budgeting & forecasting, Financial systems, Improve business processes, Accounting principles, internal controls, Financial reporting, Financial analysis and reporting, Strategic thinking, Project management, 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.