About Us

We're Reckitt, home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene and health 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.

About The Finance Planning & Reporting CoE

Driving consistency, standardisation and simplification across our Finance function, the Finance Planning & Reporting Center of Excellence (CoE) is instrumental in delivering the insights needed to drive efficient and effective decision making. Fuelled by a culture of collaboration and innovation, the CoE is integral to our organisation, championing financial excellence in FP&A, Commercial Finance and Decision Support across our global landscape. We are a dynamic, agile team, relentlessly focused on enhancing our financial processes, harnessing advanced analytics and technology, and delivering unparalleled value to our customers.

Our CoE transforms data into insights and insights into decisions. It is the central engine that delivers standardised, end-to-end services on planning, forecasting, scenario modelling and reporting to the group. It drives business value creation, all whilst creating a pipeline of future finance talent and capabilities.

About The Role

As Planning and Reporting (P&R) Global Excellence Lead, you will play a pivotal role in our Finance Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, accountable for driving continuous improvement, thought leadership for planning and reporting. You will lead efforts to standardize and optimize finance processes for Commercial Finance and Manufacturing Finance, while shaping the CoE's data and tool strategy.

This role is focused on enabling operational excellence, improving efficiency, and ensuring that planning & reporting processes and systems deliver maximum value. You will lead high-impact projects, implemt global best practices, and drive initiatives that enhance reporting, analytics, and decision-making across the organization.

Your responsibilities

Strategic Leadership: Define and drive the CoE's global planning and reporting process strategy, ensuring alignment across Commercial Finance, Manufacturing Finance, and data/technology initiatives.
Process Improvement & Optimization: Lead initiatives to streamline finance processes, remove inefficiencies, and implement global best practices.
Data & Technology Strategy: Shape and advance CoE data management frameworks and technology solutions to enable accurate reporting, analytics, and operational efficiency.
Project Leadership: Manage complex, cross-functional projects focused on process standardization, automation, and transformation. Ensure projects deliver measurable business impact on time and within scope.
Performance & KPI Management: Establish and monitor KPIs to track process effectiveness, technology adoption, and overall CoE performance.
Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with senior leadership and CoE teams to provide insights, recommendations, and guidance supporting decision-making and organizational goals.
Change Management & Enablement: Drive adoption of new processes, tools, and systems, ensuring teams understand and implement excellence practices effectively.
Finance Transformation: Participate in finance transformation initiatives by championing opportunities and technology solutions to streamline and improve existing FP&A processes, standardisation of report templates and the automation of manual tasks to enhance efficiency.

The experience we're looking for

Degree educated or equivalent
Minimum 10 years of professional experience in finance, with a deep understanding of financial processes including consolidation, budgeting, and forecasting, ideally within the CPG sector.
Excellent English language skills both verbal and written.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work collaboratively across geographies and functions
Experienced in managing teams and continuous improvement
Proven leadership skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a strategic mindset to align technology solutions with business goals.
Experience with custom internal workflow systems
Experience in data modelling and database design
Familiarity with complementary technologies (e.g., ETL tools, SQL, scripting languages)
Understanding of cloud architectures and deployment models
Experience with large-scale, multi-entity implementations
Strong communication skills, capable of bridging the gap between finance and business stakeholders.
Proficient in financial planning and analysis practices, with high proficiency in Excel and reporting/visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).

The skills for success

Strategic Leadership & Process Strategy
Finance Process Standardization & Optimization
Data Management & Technology Strategy
Project Leadership & Delivery
Stakeholder Management & Influence
Change Management & Adoption
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Continuous Improvement Mindset

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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