Assistant Controller Evansville

Reckitt•Evansville, IN

21d•$86,000 - $128,000

About The Position

As an Assistant Controller at Reckitt, you will have the excellent opportunity to develop your career and find your best potentials. You will be responsible for managing financial reporting, monthly closing reviews, quarterly forecasting, and annual budgets, ensuring timely preparation, integrity, and accuracy of reporting along with thorough analysis of risk and opportunities. You will also manage finance results in Fusion/Anaplan/SAP, ensuring data completeness and accuracy, and discuss and finalize P&L with the plant controller in detail for forecasts and actuals. Enhancing existing finance processes to increase efficiency for consistency and standardization is also a key part of this role. Additionally, you will effectively communicate financial conditions and results to the Leadership Team, determine and provide financial metrics, trends, and benchmarks to facilitate effective management decision-making, and identify business unit critical margin improvement areas. You will proactively challenge the management team to ensure forecasts and plans are fully vetted and consider both short-term and longer-term impacts. Developing trusted relationships with management inside and outside the plant, regularly providing data mining and reporting, as well as ad-hoc analysis for business needs, is crucial. You will also drive Global Framework Finance Control testing for internal auditing, ensure proper business partners are connected and educated, gather sufficient samples, and complete audits on a timely basis, while developing and maintaining proper internal controls for compliance. Performing inventory valuation according to company policy and ensuring accuracy of inventory and variances from book to physical, and analyzing obsolete inventory to ensure appropriate direction and facilitation to reduce exposure are also key responsibilities. You will serve as a liaison to internal auditors.

Requirements

BS degree in Accounting, Finance or Business is preferred.
5+ years’ experience in financial management preferred.
Must have demonstrated knowledge of cost accounting and inventory accounting systems
Experience in supply chain environment with manufacturing is a plus
Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret and present data to plant management team and corporate supply chain teams.
Experience with integrated ERP systems and proficiency in MS Office, mainly Excel. Knowledge of SAP/blackline/Anaplan is a plus

Responsibilities

Assist Plant Controller in managing financial reporting, monthly closing reviews, quarterly forecasting, and annual budget; Ensure timely preparation, integrity, and accuracy of reporting along with thorough analysis of risk and opportunities
Manage finance result in Fusion/Anaplan/SAP, ensure data completeness and accuracy
Discuss and finalize P&L with plant controller in detail level for forecasts and actuals, efficiently manage different finance system to accurately reflect the P&L result
Enhance existing finance processes to increase efficiency for consistency and standardization.
Effectively communicate financial condition and results to Leadership Team; determine and provide financial metrics, trends, and benchmarks to help better understand financial results and facilitate effective management decision making.
Identify business unit critical margin improvement areas, proactively challenge the management team to ensure forecasts and plans are fully vetted and consider both the short-term and longer-term impact of business topics and issues
Develop trusted relationship with management inside and outside of plant, regularly provide data mining and reporting, as well as ad-hoc analysis for business needs
Drive Global Framework Finance Control testing for internal auditing, ensure proper business partners are being connected and educated, gather sufficient samples, and complete audits on a timely basis. Develop and maintain proper internal controls for compliance
Perform inventory valuation according to company policy and ensure accuracy of inventory and variances from book to physical; analyze obsolete inventory ensuring appropriate direction and facilitation to reduce exposure
Serve as a liaison to internal auditors