Corporate Finance Accountant- (Essential Home)

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands, Reckitt’s purpose is 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.

At Essential Home, we know that people invest a lot of energy, time and money in transforming their houses into a place they can call home: somewhere to connect with family, friends and themselves. Each day, we strive to create a range of superior products and solutions across our core categories: air care, surface care, laundry and pest control. We do this with a conscious use of resources, to best serve our consumers in close partnership with our customers. Our iconic portfolio includes trusted global brands such as Air Wick, Calgon, Woolite, Cillit Bang, and SBP.

United by our purpose - Make a House Your Home - Essential Home is driven by a newly formed leadership team and a culture that is diverse, inclusive, and empowering. We’re building a team with a founder’s mindset: curious, entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented. This is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace, and energy—offering a truly unique opportunity for learning and career growth.

Our Finance team is not just another department - we’re problem solvers, collaborators, and trusted partners. We work closely across the business to help it grow sustainably and make smart, informed decisions. We value fresh ideas, diverse perspectives, and open communication. Whether it’s using data to guide strategy or helping shape responsible business practices, we’re passionate about making a real impact and always doing what’s right.

About the role

The role forms part of the newly created Essential Home Corporate Finance function, who, as a team, will be challenged with setting up the overall Corporate Finance and Finance Controlling function of the Essential Home business. We are creating an agile, entrepreneurial and results-oriented team with an emphasis on action, accountability, local ownership and care for each other. The team will be a central dynamic team designing, implementing and managing the end-to-end corporate finance function of Essential Home group impacting businesses across Europe, North America and Latam, including:

• Record to report function of the HQ and Holding company entities
• Accounting Policies, Standards and Procedures
• Financial Internal controls framework
• Group consolidations and Group Audit process
• External financial and statutory reporting and compliance requirements
• Oversight for local financial control such as Balance sheet reviews

Over the next two years, the team will be focused on designing and implementing new processes and systems, including group-wide consolidation, a new ERP and reporting platform, policies and control frameworks and a central finance shared service function. Success in this role means bringing fresh, proactive thinking to help standardise, simplify, and optimise our requirements and capabilities, ensuring our future operating model is fit for the dynamic nature of Essential Home.

Within this team, the Corporate Finance Analyst will:

• Manage the ledgers of the head office entities in collaboration with service providers
• Support the consolidation process for the company's global operations and provide accurate and timely consolidated financial reports for internal and external stakeholders
• Play a key part in supporting the group external audit process
• Manage the accounting policies and finance manual of the group, including providing technical accounting/IFRS support to the group’s businesses across North America, Europe and LATAM
• Play a key role in the development and implementation of financial reporting systems and processes

Your responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day accounting for corporate HQ entities, supported by shared services team, including month-end close, reporting on actuals, planning and forecasting and substantiating balance sheet positions
• Alongside the wider Group Reporting team, develop the initial financial reporting processes of Essential Home, including the implementation of a consolidation system
• Support Tax teams with tax filing, analysing, reporting (VAT, CIT, WHT)
• Collaborate with regional/local finance teams to ensure accurate, complete data for group consolidation
• Ensure reconciliations between internal systems and external consolidated reporting are complete and accurate
• Preparation of schedules and other reporting to support the Group Consolidated Financial statements
• Assist in the group external audit process, be a key contact to the external audit team for the management and coordination of required financial audits. Assist finance teams in the resolution of problems as they arise and development
• Preparation of accounting memos documenting assumptions and decisions made on non-standard/technical accounting matters in the group
• Develop and maintain consolidation policies, procedures, and reporting calendars
• Keep abreast of technical and group developments across the Essential Home markets, assessing the impact and implementing required changes for group financial reporting and consolidations
• Provide guidance and support to group companies on the adoption and implementation of new accounting standards ensuring compliance with IFRS
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Tax, Treasury, Commercial Finance, auditors, advisors)
• Maintain robust internal controls over financial reporting in partnership with the internal controls team
• Lead and mentor local finance and shared service finance team members involved in the financial reporting process

The experience we're looking for

• Chartered Accountant qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA or national equivalent)
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in financial reporting, multi-currency group consolidations, or a related field, with a strong background in working with related finance systems
• Experience in external audit processes at group headquarters level
• Experience in managing month-end group reporting requirements and timetables
• Experience in using ERP and financial reporting software (such as SAP, HFM, Hyperion, S4H) is an advantage
• Previous audit experience at a large audit firm advantageous
• The business language in Essential Home is English, therefore fluency in English is essential

Personal Attributes

• Bring a positive, “can-do” attitude and stay consistent under pressure
• Value trust and collaboration within teams
• Are excited to build new processes from scratch and simplify existing ones
• Enjoy rolling up your sleeves and working across a diverse portfolio of work
• Use a “big picture” approach, thinking strategically and communicating with clarity to win confidence and deal with a wide range of stakeholders
• Are a logical, structured thinker who can break down complexity
• Know how to prioritise and focus on what truly matters
• Solve problems collaboratively across functions
• Respect diverse perspectives and communicate your own clearly
• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and change
• In line with Essential Home’s core values, the candidate will be achievement focused and able to work in a direct and often pressurised environment. Entrepreneurial skills in terms of innovation and problem solving are key along with tenacity, tough-mindedness and ability to influence and demonstrate strong team working abilities and commitment

The skills for success

• Project management
• Financial systems
• Improve business processes
• Accounting Principles
• Financial Reporting
• Internal Controls
• Stakeholder engagement and influence

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.