Financial Analyst

This is a 12 month fixed term position. It will be responsible for being a finance admin and managing the local marketing planning forecast for the Health Division in Canada (Mucinex, Durex, Veet, Cepacol products).

**The Role**:
An analytical and resourceful individual with excellent organizational and communication skills. This individual must be agile in the way they think and be able to pivot and be comfortable rolling up their sleeves and dig in to find solutions. The financial analyst role is key in two significant areas. First in providing reliable, timely and accurate financial information to assist management in the process of strategic decision making to deliver the business requirements. Second to assist in the internal control assessment process across the Canadian organization. Both are key to grow the business and sustain our competitive advantage with moms and consumers.

**What you’ll do**:

- Responsible for being a finance admin and managing the local marketing planning/forecast tools, and providing coach, guidance, and support to budget owners to input data and run report during planning at lowest level (by projects, brand, expense, month) This also includes at time providing training and granting user access to the system.
- Monthly meetings conducted with the budget owners providing budget and status report updates, giving the team visibility to efficiently manage the spend, reinvest savings earlier, to drive the top line.
- Publish Monthly status reports of Procure To Pay issues to the budget owners reflecting outstanding issues & follow through on requirements.
- Responsible to roll up of budget/forecast/latest View and monthly results of marketing spending/national coupon and upload to forecasting system.
- Support business needs throughout the organization by pulling together ad hoc reports and analysis.
- Actively identify process gaps and propose remediation.
- Purchase order requests including to maintain PO request form to ensure it captures all requirements (payment terms, financial coding, contract numbers, etc.) for submitting PO requests to Procurement.
- Diagnose and work with Procurement and Payments team to resolve invoice processing issues and maintain strong communication with PO owner.
- Create and maintain vendors in SAP, coordinating with shared service and business partners (I.e. Changes such as Vendor name, payment terms, bank info, address etc.).
- Establish best practices, document, and maintain all processes (working instructions)) related to contract and PO creation, invoice reconciliation for the organization.
- Assist Managers in open PO review at month end to identify if all goods were received in the month as expected and in line with the budget and provide Goods Receipt systems support.
- Key contact for invoice inquiries from vendors and escalation of issues within the department.
- Works closely Finance business partners for budgets and funds assessment and for invoice issue resolution and escalation.
- Contract completion coordination including using companies’ tools (CLM & Ariba) to document reviews and approvals.
- Ensure Digital Team stakeholders understand the process & their role (i.e. sending all documents properly filled out and in the right order)
- Ensure NDA, Vendor Set Up, MSA and relevant privacy assessments are complete & routed in CLM before submitting PO requests (with SOW).
- Set expectations for timeline to completion for each step of the contract process.

**How Do You Know If You’re A Fit?**:
**Education**
- Post Secondary degree in accounting or finance with and interest in marketing, or equivalent experience

**Experience**
- More than of 3 years experience in relevant Finance/Accounting position
- Experience working in a professional business environment and effectively developing and implementing new processes.
- Excellent computer skills (SAP preferred)
- Experience with Arriba will be beneficial.
- Accounting background will be beneficial

**You’ll succeed because**:
You’ll join our Finance team in driving forward every part of our complex business. Handling everything from Treasury and Tax to Investor Relations and Commercial and Corporate Finance, they guide and inform our growth around the world. And they do it all with the pace and agility that our business and markets demand.

**Why Reckitt?**:
You’ll love it because

you’ll get to make an impact like never before. The products you help us get out there will make people’s lives better. Our iconic brands will provide an incredible platform for you. And our dynamic culture will help bring the very best out of you, every day.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code, Reckitt Canada will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment,