Finance Control Champion at Reckitt

About the role

The Finance Control Champion role is to ensure successful delivery of the Controls Transformation programme by acting as a link between the market and the Global Internal Controls team. The Control Champion is responsible for various Controls activities and assists local management in establishing and maintaining robust and effective internal controls for Reckitt.  The Control Champion will play a key role in evaluating and improving the effectiveness of the Reckitt’s processes and controls.

The role will support the Finance Controller in various other deliverables including statutory and governance compliance, planning and forecasting and closing of month end.

Your responsibilities

Controls Transformation Programme

• Develop and maintain the remediation plans including driving, prioritising and coordination of action plans
• Support local management, controls owners and operators with remediation of identified controls gaps
• Support local market leadership with understanding and evaluating impacts of changing control requirements to their control environment
• Provides guidance to senior management, process owners and control owners on relevant internal control matters including control design and documentation requirements. 
• Collaborate with Control owners and operators, Regional Assurance team and Global Control Transformation team  on various initiatives for successful implementation of UK SOX controls
• Status reporting to market leadership and programme team

Financial Control support

• Tax compliance including provisional and income tax returns, employee related tax returns and dealings with SARS as required
• Review of annual financial statements and support the finance manager to ensure AFS filing deadlines are met
• Assist market with technical accounting issues and ensuring financial reporting is in line with IFRS and Reckitt internal policies
• Support month end close process including net working capital and balance sheet flux analysis
• Planning and Forecasting of Net Working Capital and Commercial Fixed costs

The experience we're looking for

• Chartered Accountant with at least 5 years of experience
• Big 4 articles and FMCG experience advantageous
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of internal controls. US SOX experience advantageous
• Up to date on latest accounting standards, IFRS reporting requirements and tax legislation
• Experience in leading projects
• Intermediate experience with Excel, PowerPoint and Teams
• Commercial understanding of corporate and operational business issues.
• Ability to practically implement accounting theory and stringent internal controls in commercial and manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of other core finance end to end business processes (P2P, O2C, R2R, Inventory)
• Capable of building strong working relationships as business partnering across the business will be required
• Works with a spirit of continuous improvement and innovation, creatively open to new ideas and methods
• Good organizational skills, ability to move from one task to another efficiently
• Good communication skills both written and oral (in English)