Planning & Reporting CoE Senior Manager

About Us

About the Finance Planning & Reporting CoE

Driving efficiency and standardization across our renowned consumer brands that enhance everyday lives—from nourishing meals to trusted household essentials—is the pivotal force of the Finance Planning & Reporting Center of Excellence (CoE). Fuelled by a culture of collaboration and innovation, the CoE is integral to our organization, championing financial excellence and strategic insight across our global landscape. We are a dynamic, agile team, relentlessly focused on enhancing our financial processes, harnessing advanced analytics, and delivering unparalleled value to every facet of our business.

We transcend traditional finance roles; we are a strategic partner where diverse talents converge to tackle intricate financial challenges, foster sustainable growth, and empower our mission to create a healthier, more sustainable world for all. By ensuring a clear line of sight between strategic goals and day-to-day financial activities, we enable efficient performance management and better business results through the collaboration of our people, processes, and systems.

Our CoE transforms finance from a traditional back-office function into a strategic powerhouse that drives business value, as talented individuals come together to solve complex challenges, shape future capabilities, and build a better business. 

About the role

As an Senior Manager in the Finance CoE, you will report into a Finance Director and be part of a team supporting a portfolio of markets. In this role, you will play a key part in executing financial planning and reporting activities across these markets. You will support the creation of standardized reports, development of initial forecasts/budgets, and analysis of financial performance to enable data-driven decision-making.

This position offers a unique opportunity to gain broad exposure to multiple markets while contributing to the centralization and improvement of Reckitt’s FP&A processes. If you are passionate about finance, data analysis, and continuous improvement, this role will allow you to grow and make a real impact on our global business. 

Your responsibilities

•Own the global process standard for commercial finance: trade promotion evaluation, NRM frameworks, customer P&L, pricing analytics (drawing on SAP and Fusion reporting)
•Set and sequence the standardisation roadmap migrating markets onto common commercial finance templates and tools
•Continuously identify gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities in commercial finance processes, implementing enhancements that drive efficiency, accuracy, and scalability across markets
•Partner with global Commercial/Category leadership on NRM strategy execution and value-capture tracking
•Own the commercial finance playbook at a strategic level — trade spend ROI methodology, promo evaluation templates, S&OP finance integration — with the Manager maintaining it day to day
•Lead process-related projects — including new tool implementation, process change, and finance transformation initiatives — ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and against defined objectives
•Sponsor cross-market benchmarking on trade spend effectiveness, discount leakage, and channel/customer profitability
•Own capability-building strategy across regional commercial finance teams — training, community of practice, best-practice sharing
•Drive continuous improvement and finance transformation across commercial finance — streamlining workflows, automating manual tasks, and adopting best practices
•Serve as the escalation point for complex commercial finance process or system issues, providing guidance and solutions to resolve operational challenges
•Establish process governance — controls, standards adherence, and change management — for commercial finance initiatives, partnering with the Head, Financial Systems & Data Architecture on execution discipline
•Partner with the Financial Systems & Data Architecture team to identify and pilot agentic AI use cases within commercial finance (e.g., automated trade-spend anomaly detection, NLG-based commentary)

The experience we're looking for

•15+ years FP&A experience with a strong commercial/category finance background — direct trade spend management experience is highly valued
•Proven track record designing or scaling trade promotion & marketing investment frameworks across markets
•Comfortable working directly with Commercial/Sales leadership, not just finance peers
•Process excellence exposure preferred; strong analytical and influencing skills given the standardisation mandate
•CPG/FMCG commercial finance background essential
•Comfortable operating within a formal process-governance and controls framework, with change-management experience driving tool and standards adoption across matrixed teams

The skills for success

• Financial Analysis & Reporting
• Strategic Planning
• Business Partnering
• Process Improvement
• Data Visualization Skills
• Project Management
• Team Leadership
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Change Management
• 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.