IT&D SAP Senior Finance Analyst

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

About the team

In IT and D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.

Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.

Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.

About the role

The Senior SAP Controlling Analyst is responsible for supporting, maintaining, enhancing, and governing Reckitt's SAP Controlling (CO) ecosystem. The role will act as the primary functional expert for Controlling processes, ensuring stable operations, process optimization, system compliance, and delivery of global SAP initiatives.

This position partners closely with Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial Finance, Shared Services, Master Data, and external partners to support end-to-end controlling processes across Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis (COPA), Allocation Cycles, and Period-End Close activities.

The role will be responsible for managing incidents, service requests, enhancements, project delivery, testing, documentation, stakeholder engagement, governance, and continuous improvements across the SAP Controlling landscape.

Your responsibilities

SAP CO Operations & Support

• Own day-to-day support activities for SAP Controlling processes and related integrations.
• Manage and resolve incidents, defects, and business support requests within agreed service levels.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement sustainable solutions to recurring issues.
• Ensure system availability, stability, and data integrity across SAP CO processes.
• Coordinate with technical teams and external vendors for issue resolution and system maintenance.

Business Process Management

• Support and optimize end-to-end SAP Controlling processes including:
  • Cost Center Accounting (CCA)
  • Internal Orders
  • Profit Center Accounting (PCA)
  • Product Costing
  • Profitability Analysis (COPA)
  • Assessment and Distribution Cycles
  • Cost Allocations
  • Planning and Budgeting
  • Month-End and Year-End Close Processes
• Ensure business processes are aligned with global standards and governance requirements.
• Identify opportunities for process simplification, standardization, and automation.

Enhancements & Continuous Improvement

• Gather and document business requirements from global stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications.
• Drive configuration changes and enhancements within SAP CO.
• Support implementation of new functionality, process improvements, and system upgrades.
• Continuously identify efficiencies, controls improvements, and optimization opportunities.

Project Delivery

• Support global SAP transformation, rollout, and enhancement projects.
• Participate in solution design workshops and process discussions.
• Perform impact assessments and recommend scalable SAP CO solutions.
• Coordinate system testing including SIT, UAT, regression testing, and deployment activities.
• Ensure project deliverables are completed within agreed timelines and quality standards.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure all SAP CO processes comply with Reckitt's internal controls, audit requirements, and financial governance standards.
• Maintain process documentation, knowledge articles, training materials, and support procedures.
• Support internal and external audits related to SAP Controlling processes.
• Assist in segregation of duties reviews and compliance activities.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the key liaison between business users, SAP technical teams, support partners, and third-party vendors.
• Provide expert functional guidance to finance and controlling stakeholders.
• Deliver training sessions and knowledge transfer to end users where required.
• Support adoption of new solutions and process changes across the organization.

The experience we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.
Professional qualification such as CA, CMA, ACCA, CPA, or MBA Finance preferred.
7+ years of experience supporting SAP Controlling (CO) processes.
Strong experience in SAP FICO environments supporting global organizations.
Proven experience in SAP support, enhancements, testing, and project delivery.
Experience working with global stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
Strong understanding of finance and controlling business processes.

The skills for success

Platform Engineering, Agile Best Practices, User Experience Design, Compliance Management, Communication and Collaboration, Problem Solving, Attention to Detail, Mentoring and Coaching, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Containerisation, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes.

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.