Commercial Controller

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

Essential Home

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented. With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

In this role...

You will be a key leader in the commercial controlling team of Essential Homes in DACHN Region. Co-pilot with the DACHN Region FD and a trustworthy Business partner with key business stakeholders. Plan, analyze and track the strategic direction of the organization. Flag risks & opportunities and provide financial and commercial insights for better decision making. Own the CFC planning, tracking and controlling of our region. Opportunity to make a difference in a purpose-driven company.

Your responsibilities

In summary, you'll have the following responsibilities:

• Independent supervision of assigned customers/channels/distributors, including coordination with the sales partners involved
• Responsibility for month-end closing and trade accrual management
• Largely independent preparation of plans, reports, forecasts and analyses and deriving measures and proposals; deliver insights to improve decision-making.
• Business partner in preparation of input and insights for business/customer reviews.
• Carrying out analyses and evaluations as well as deriving measures and proposals including possible risk/opportunity assessments
• Participation in projects in controlling and with business partners (cross functionally)
• Initiate, design and manage continuous improvement of various tools, processes and procedures within controlling and with the business partners
• Controlling trade investment budgets
• Business partner role to his/her stakeholders – mainly Key Account Managers, Sales Director, country sales managers and Finance Director
• Support Key Account managers providing necessary tools and information for year-end negotiations with customers
• Interaction with internal or external auditors.

The experience we're looking for

• Minimum Bachelor degree in Business Administration (Berufsakademie)
• Major in Finance is a plus
• 3-4 years’ working experience in Finance/Commercial Controlling
• Experience in extremely competitive, fast moving FMCG environment Industry: Branded Consumer Goods companies
• Sales controlling experience of complex market is a plus
• Excellent English (able to present and negotiate in English)

The skills for success

Tax law, Tax compliance, Business acumen, 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.