Surgical Manager

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.

Finance
Our Finance team is not just another department; we're strategic partners and catalysts for change, who use our expertise to drive sustainable growth and create and protect value for Reckitt. With a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and partnership, our inclusive, diverse and energized team breaks down traditional barriers, enabling you to thrive in a dynamic environment where you and your ideas matter. From leveraging insights and analysis to make data-driven decisions to spearheading sustainable business practices that contribute to consistent and reliable business growth, we are unwaveringly passionate about making a meaningful impact, and always doing the right thing.

About The Role
Note: This is a Fixed Term Contract for up to 12 months.
This role provides the opportunity for an experienced finance professional to take ownership of the financial operations of Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) entities within a dynamic and successful FTSE 20 company. The role encompasses management reporting, external reporting, statutory compliance, and governance oversight. You will be accountable for delivering accurate statutory accounts, managing audit processes, and ensuring that CHQ companies adhere to internal control standards. The position requires strong technical expertise, leadership capability, and excellent stakeholder management skills, with exposure to Senior Management team across Global functions (e.g. FP&A, Tax, Treasury).

Your responsibilities

• Overseeing the delivery of month end tasks and reporting deliverables.
• Ensuring all policies and internal controls are adhered to.
• Collaborating with Global Finance Services team to drive continued improvement of outsourced tasks.
• Leading the preparation and review of statutory accounts for CHQ entities.
• Overseeing external audit processes, ensuring timely completion and effective issue resolution.
• Support external reporting requirements where input from CHQ entities is required to complete disclosures.
• Partnering with Transfer Pricing team to ensure changes in operating model are implemented timely.
• Ensuring compliance with IFRS, UK GAAP, and corporate governance requirements.
• Managing financial controls, reconciliations, and risk management processes.
• Driving process improvements and efficiencies across CHQ entities reporting.
• Providing leadership, coaching, and development to junior team members.
• Anticipates key compliance and controls risks and develops appropriate mitigation plans in coordination with other teams.

Deliverables

• Timely and accurate delivery of statutory accounts for CHQ and UK Hub companies.
• Smooth completion of annual external audits with minimal adjustments.
• Strong collaboration with FP&A, Group reporting, Tax, and Legal.
• Robust internal control environment and compliance with accounting standards.
• Demonstrated improvements in reporting processes and efficiencies.
• Effective leadership and development of team members.

The experience we're looking for

• Strong technical accounting knowledge, particularly IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Proven experience in statutory reporting and audit management.
• Strong Excel and analytical skills.
• Experience of working in a matrix environment would be desirable.
• Demonstrated leadership and team management experience.
• Experience of working with Treasury, Tax, and Consolidation functions.
• ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualified accountant (or equivalent).
• Significant post-qualification experience in finance, ideally within multinational corporate or financial services entities.

The skills for success
Accounting principles, Financial systems, Improve business processes.

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.