Financial Analyst

Want to make your financial expertise really count?
As a Financial Analyst with Reckitt, you’ll have the freedom to succeed.
Reckitt is more than a company. We’re a growing community of over 40,000 diverse, talented entrepreneurs - driven by our purpose to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner healthier world. We work each day to ensure that access to high quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment is a right, not a privilege. Drawing on each other’s skills, working together and putting consumers and our people first, we strive to give each and every team member the Freedom to Succeed.
To make this happen, we’ve created an environment where curiosity is encouraged, ideas are embraced, and ownership is given. Opportunities are everywhere, and ambitions grow. We are an organization that strives for excellence every day, serving our consumers and customers in a better way each day.

**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**:
**Financial Planning/Reporting/Analysis**
- End to end finance support for commercial departments in executing, planning and managing operating expenses. Including developing tools and advising on best practices for managing spend.
- Responsible for projections, forecasts and variance analysis related to all operating, compensation and benefit related expenses.
- Responsible for preparing reports and analysis to assist management in the decision-making process.
- Assisting with the month-end close process and the reporting of results to Corporate, including review/analyze general ledger accounts related to revenues and expenses and performing account reconciliations and adjusting journal entries.
- Responsible monthly balance sheet reports and working capital projections.**Business Controls - for your area of responsibility**
- Ensure that internal control issues are anticipated, and audit infractions are avoided by performing continuous reviews throughout the year of related balance sheet account
- Where necessary create and update control documentation.
- Reviews any deficiencies identified and develops/implements remedial plans as required.
- Assist as required with all Audit Reviews (internal/external/yearend)

**Ad Hoc Projects**
- Support business needs throughout the organization by pulling together ad hoc reports and analysis

**How Do You Know If You’re A Fit?**:
**Education**
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or similar business certification.
- Preference to individuals completed or enrolled in an accounting designation program (i.e. CPA) or MBA.

**Experience**
- Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in relevant Finance/Accounting position
- Experience working in a professional business environment and effectively developing and implementing new processes and assessing internal controls Excellent computer skills**Competencies**
- Have previously demonstrated ability to be agile and taking on a variety of tasks and seeking solutions to new problems
- Independent, self-starter, team-focused professional who will embrace an entrepreneurial and strong ownership culture and quickly integrate as part of the team.
- Accounting knowledge (journal entries, account reconciliations, & analysis) with excellent attention to detail, solid analytical ability and comfortable manipulating and analyzing complex and high-volume data sets.
- Knowledge interpreting, following and creating finance/accounting policies, procedures and working papers.
- Is regarded by others as an exceptional inter-personal communicator and has been effective at coordinating cross functional resources and activities across an organization.
- Working knowledge of business and internal controls standards and processes at a public company
- Knowledge of key computer software packages (example: SAP) and is proficient in pulling data from these packages for use in relevant analysis. Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.**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?**:
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