GFS Hub Director - Finance

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Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

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 energised 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.

Aspire to be at the forefront of financial excellence? Reckitt is seeking a Finance Director for Shared Services, a strategic role offering the chance to sculpt our global finance processes and drive transformation. Your influence will span worldwide operations, incorporating innovation into our governance and setting the bar for best practices. At Reckitt, your expertise will pave the path for efficiency and nurture continuous growth. Embrace this opportunity to shape the future of finance in a company that values your insights and leadership.

• Build and lead a high performing multifunctional shared service centre / centre of excellence in Hyderabad with a critical focus on building a talented team with a strong customer centric approach
• Build connected centres of excellence initially focussed on service delivery, data quality and project management but with likely expansion into further areas such as Blackline and Concur – scope of service to be determined
• Through collaboration with other GFS teams identify additional services to be delivered from the centre
• Drive an operational excellence culture aligned to the overall GFS vision
• Drive continuous improvement in all areas through a focus on best practice and automation / standardisation initiatives
• Working collaboratively with other GFS leaders and market finance manage seamless transition of services from other areas of GFS into the India Hub
• Adhoc projects supporting the GFS Director.

• Proven leadership skills in building, developing and retaining high performing offshore teams, including the provision of coaching and feedback
• Extensive experience of building and leading India based finance shared services teams
• Experience of working internationally in finance leadership positions preferably in large complex and fast moving multinational businesses
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field. Professional certification such as ACCA, CIMA, ACA is preferred.
• Experience leading large-scale projects and managing large teams.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and identify proactive solutions and implement change in a team-oriented environment.

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

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.

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.