Finance Accounting Controller, Frbnl

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and speciality cleaners 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, Destop now is an exciting time to join adynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity.

**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**:
The role forms part of the newly created Essential Home Global Finance Controllership, who, as a team, will be challenged with setting up the overall Corporate Finance and Finance Controlling function of the Essential Home business. We are creating an agile, entrepreneurial and results-oriented team with an emphasis on action, accountability, local ownership and care for each other. The team will be responsible for designing, implementing and managing the end-to-end finance controllership function of the Essential Home group in businesses across Europe, North America and LATAM.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Oversee all operations of the accounting team, including design of the organizational structure that is adequate for achieving the department’s goals and objectives
- Ensure monthly financial reporting compliance with IFRS and group policies.
- Prepare annual statutory accounts and meet local financial compliance requirements.
- Maintain accurate monthly accounts by managing service providers.
- Review significant balance sheet reconciliations and approve high-risk assumptions.
- Final review and sign-off of regional balance sheets/trial balances.
- Analyse balance sheet trends and deviations from forecasts.
- Manage bridges between statutory and management accounts.
- Coordinate internal and external audits and implement recommendations.
- Ensure accuracy of reconciliations between external and internal financial reports.
- Cash Flow, PTP, and OTC: Implement and manage cash flow forecasts, identifying actionable insights.
- Supervise PTP and OTC activities from the Shared Services center.
- Controls & IFRS: Develop and maintain robust internal financial controls.
- Stay updated on IFRS and group developments affecting financial reporting.
- Tax Submission and Adjacent Processes: Review and approve VAT submissions and manage tax compliance.
- Oversee adjacent processes like payroll, insurance, and foreign exchange management.
- Stakeholder & Team Management: Build strong relationships with stakeholders for effective accountability. Resolve service quality issues with internal and external providers.
- Lead and mentor finance teams, providing direction and development opportunities.
- Transformation: Contribute to the transformation by implementing new processes and tools.
- In liaison with the legal director, ensure all litigations are financially understood
- Comply with local, state, and government reporting requirements and tax filings

**The experience we're looking for**:

- Accountancy qualification - Higher education in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related areas
- Membership of Certified or Chartered Accounting body (if possible)
- Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in financial in controllership, with at least 5 years in a leadership position
- In-depth knowledge of international accounting standards (IFRS) and local accounting standards
- Experience in managing and achieving results through working with outsourced service providers related to financial controlling (such as central shared service centers, tax and internal audit advisors)
- Experience in operating within group reporting requirements and timetables, as well as matrix-based reporting lines
- Pack-Office Expertise

**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