Finance Manager

Reckitt Benckiser India Pvt Ltd

Thailand

5-7 Years

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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

Reporting to the Commercial Controller, you are responsible for supporting the Finance Team / Business Stakeholders in financial planning and analysis exercises under different scenarios including plan / budgeting / actual results. Those reports and analysis include standard financial slides deck, monthly financial review, monthly reporting deck, and other ad-hoc reports supporting the business stakeholders to track and monitor the KPI achievement against year-end target set. This person also needs to work closely with Global Counterparts to drive and deliver business change and transformation programs. These include but not limited to develop local and regional business cases, through readiness assessment, future state design and benefits realization. You will own the deployment of various strategic projects within the Finance function across the countries in the region, support them in building a solid understanding of the Finance operating model and global business processes, and help the local and regional team to simplify and harmonize the policies & procedures as well as reporting processes.

Your responsibilities

Month-End / Budgeting & Forecasting Planning/ LV / Business Reviews for CFC (60%)
. Ensure submission deadlines for monthly results (FLASH / ACTUALS / LV), forecast and plan are met and with quality commentaries.
. Lead the Planning and forecasting process for CFC (FC1, FC2, FC3 and Plan forecast), highly focused on people and non-people cost.
. Facilitate necessary discussions on reporting issues which put delivery within deadlines at risk.
. Prepare month-end/ planning financials which is required within a short time frame with high level of accuracy.
. Provide high quality support to the management as well as other functional teams during preparation for Business Reviews with Area and other ad-hoc meetings.
. Provide insightful analysis on the financials and suggest implications on business performance.
. P&L reconciliation with Productivity Reporting e.g., people cost report
. Maintain CPG mapping and cost centre in SAP where necessary.

Business Partnering with Different Business Stakeholders (30%)
. Lead the Budgeting and Forecasting processes for relevant finance leaders, partner with them to define and monitor appropriate production metrics, track and report results against targets.
. Develop financial reports for business stakeholders and group reporting.
. Construct business cases e.g., performance analysis on brands to identify opportunities and mitigate risk based on the result of business cases.
. Provide financial guidance and support to Business to understand profitability, what are the gaps in achievement of KPIs and mitigating plan.
. Perform Risk and Ops assessment in collaboration with business stakeholders to ensure that financial implication from both sides is tracked and monitored.

Business Readiness and Change Management (10%)
. Work closely with Power Users from markets during deployment to ensure local teams have the knowledge to support the key program activities (e.g. new management reporting system, new analytical tool for variance analysis, etc.)
. Act as an advocate for the standardization of global business processes, data and new systems implementation within the business.
. Understand and gather information on change impact assessment in local and initiate changes to existing local processes to support new deployment initiated by Global / BU.
. Deploy the regional communication strategy defined by Global / BU.
. Facilitate best practice sharing across the countries and regions.

Upcoming projects (list is non-exhaustive):
. Data extraction via Power BI in data warehouses from local ERP systems such as SAP /JDE.
. Financial Reporting Automation. (Core of the core report)
. Indochina (Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar) project optimization on price structure or distributors
. New BU transition and reporting.

Please note this is an initial job description and your duties and responsibilities within this role may change over the course of employment.

The experience we're looking for

. Recognised Degree in Finance or Accounting, CA/ ACCA or equivalent.
. At least 5-7 years proven work experience within Finance/Accounting.
. Experience of working within a multinational environment/ FMCG industry preferred.
. Microsoft Office literacy essential (strong excel skills in data compilation and aggregation, e.g., sumifs, indirect function, pivot table, v/h lookup, etc.)
. SAP, BPC, JDE, HFM, Fusion, Cognos knowledge desirable but not essential.
. General system fluency: willingness to partner with IT team on upgrades, change requests

The skills for success

Commercial Fixed Cost, Project Finance,Tax law, Tax compliance, Business accumen, Improve business processes, Stakeholder engagement and influence, Accounting principles.

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.