Controls Assurance Manager

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

Step into a key leadership position as Senior Finance Manager - Controls at Reckitt. In this pivotal role, you'll be instrumental in uplifting our financial control environment, leveraging your expertise to deliver exceptional controls assurance and transformative activities. Your forward-thinking will not only impact our processes, but also our people, as you oversee a talented assurance team. With your guidance, we'll navigate through complexity with ease and confidence. If you have a passion for excellence and a vision for impeccable financial management, we look forward to your influence in our journey toward continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities

• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Accounting / Finance, with a professional accountancy qualification.
• Proficient in internal controls, especially US SOX, with experience in controls implementation.
• Familiar with COBIT and COSO frameworks, with a preference for hands-on experience.
• Skilled in using SAP for business process controls, showcasing a strong understanding of financial systems.
• Proven track record of leading teams to deliver in a control-focused environment, with an aptitude for stakeholder engagement and process improvement initiatives.
• Flexible for travel within the UK and the region, bringing a worldly perspective to our control practices.
• A collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills, able to work transparently with a variety of internal teams.
  
  

The experience we're looking for

• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Accounting / Finance, with a professional accountancy qualification.
• Proficient in internal controls, especially US SOX, with experience in controls implementation.
• Familiar with COBIT and COSO frameworks, with a preference for hands-on experience.
• Skilled in using SAP for business process controls, showcasing a strong understanding of financial systems.
• Proven track record of leading teams to deliver in a control-focused environment, with an aptitude for stakeholder engagement and process improvement initiatives.
• Flexible for travel within the UK and the region, bringing a worldly perspective to our control practices.
• A collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills, able to work transparently with a variety of internal teams.
  
  

The skills for success

Internal controls, Financial reporting, Accounting principles, Stakeholder engagement and influence, Improve business processes, Financial systems, Project management.

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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