IT&D Solution Architect, SAP Controlling

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.

Information Technology & Digital

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

IT&D Solution Architect - SAP Controlling is responsible for to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of SAP Finance and Controlling solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep functional expertise in SAP CO, strong integration knowledge with SAP FI and other business processes, and the ability to translate business requirements into scalable SAP solutions. The role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders, finance leadership, solution architects, and project teams to drive process standardization and digital transformation initiatives.

Your responsibilities

• Lead solution design and architecture for SAP Controlling (CO) processes across global business functions.
• Gather and analyze business requirements and translate them into SAP solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Design and implement SAP CO functionalities including Cost Center Accounting (CCA),Internal Orders (IO),Profit Center Accounting (PCA),Product Costing (PC),Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
• Drive SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling transformation initiatives.
• Define integration solutions with SAP FI, MM, SD, PP, PS, and BW/Analytics.
• Lead workshops, solution blueprinting sessions, and stakeholder discussions.
• Provide guidance on best practices for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and cost management.
• Support end-to-end project delivery, including design, configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
• Collaborate with technical teams on interfaces, workflows, reports, enhancements, and data migration activities.
• Conduct solution reviews and ensure compliance with governance, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor functional consultants and provide architectural leadership across project teams.
• Support business process optimization and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Understanding of controlling master data including cost centers, profit centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost elements, assessment/distribution cycles, and order types.
• Support planning and budgeting cycles within CO, including cost center planning, activity rate planning, and cost allocations.
• Assist in Product Costing processes such as material cost estimates, BOM/Routing costing, WIP calculation, variance analysis, and month-end settlement activities.
• Support in preparation of functional specifications for enhancements, reports, allocation logic, cost simulations, interfaces, and workflow improvements.
• Monitor integrations between CO and other modules: FI (actual postings), MM (material movements), PP (production orders), SD (billing), and PM (maintenance orders).
• Support month-end and year-end close activities including cost center reconciliations, internal order settlement, COPA reporting, overhead calculation, and variance explanations.
• Work with managed service providers to ensure timely incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and SLA adherence.
• Support CO master data governance - cost centers, profit centers, activity types, internal orders, and cost element hierarchies.
• Participate in regression testing, UAT, integration testing, and cutover tasks for new deployments or enhancements.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, IT, or related field.
• Strong leadership and solution architecture capabilities.
•  Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
•  Ability to engage senior business stakeholders.
•  Strong presentation and workshop facilitation skills.
•  Ability to work effectively in cross-functional and global teams.
•  Mentoring and team development experience.
• Strong understanding of cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting, activity planning, budgeting, and COPA.
• Experience in manufacturing or product costing (material cost estimates, BOM/Routing costing, WIP, variance analysis).
• Understanding of integrations with MM (P2P), SD (Billing), and Bank/Treasury modules.
• Prior involvement in SAP rollouts, enhancements, or migration projects.
• Ability to work in distributed global teams across time zones.

The skills for success

Product Development, system development, Project Management, Programme Management, Design Thinking, Process Automisation, IT Service Management, Innovation Processes, Innovation, User Experience Design, Change Analyst, Change Management, Digital Transformation, Value Analysis, Change Management, Adoption, Technology Adoption Lifecycle, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Vendor Management, Outstanding Communication, stakeholder engagement, Digital Strategy, Product Solution Architecture, Cyber Security Strategy, Cyber Security, Data Privacy, Portfolio Management, Data Governance, Product Compliance, Media Analytics, advertising, Consumer Engagement, Market Value, Market Chain, Data Driven Practices, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Governance.

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.