Sales Finance Analyst Job at Reckitt

• The Finance Analyst monitors the Commercial KPIs, strengthens the commercial and financial controls; and reviews all the commercial spends of the region. Primarily interacts with the Sales teams and Trade Marketing as a business partner to help deliver across commercial KPIs. The role owner is required to be the controller for all trade spend related activities, ensuring they go through a robust financial analysis, are approved by the relevant authority and monitors effective market execution and transfer of incentives.

Your responsibilities

• Ensure monitoring and effective operation of 
• Commercial KPIs 
• Trade Spends against Plan/Forecasts 
• Stocks levels at DB 
• Stock reconciliation 
• DB audits 
• Sales Returns and disposals 
• Price grids & product costing 
• Implement ROI improvement in Trade initiatives 
• Manage trade spend budget with budget owners (trade marketing) and ensure spends are in line with all approvals 
• Conduct Pre and Post evaluation of Consumer and Trade Promos 
• Support with internal and external Audit for commercial function 
• Drive improvement and automation across the trade spend review process to ensure minimal manual intervention 
• Drive Productivity agenda across commercial function to deliver savings as per targets 
• Price list management: Ensure correct price lists are provided to customers, sales team and captured in RB systems 
• Perform checks on effective executions of activities in trade and correct transfer of incentives to trade/customers 
• Develop a robust mechanism to verify and process all trade related claims timely and with utmost accuracy 
• Carry out reconciliation with customers to ensure there is no spend that is carried out without due approval and all spend is brought to Reckitt’s knowledge 
• Collaborate with customer finance teams to help ensure correctness and accuracy of information being shared to Reckitt 

The experience we're looking for

• Professional qualification/Undergraduate/Postgraduate Degree in Finance/Accounting with relevant experience in industry
• Minimum 1 - 2 years experience
• Advanced Excel skills (PivotTables, financial modeling, scenario analysis)

The skills for success

• Business Acumen, analytical Skills, detailed orientated, financial analysis, proactive, results driven, communication skills, presentation skills