Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant - CHQ

City: Sydney

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 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.

About the role

Seize the opportunity to become a Financial Accountant with Reckitt, where you'll do much more than crunch numbers – you'll play a pivotal role in charting our financial course. At Reckitt, your expertise will guide us through the complexities of GST, tax, and fiscal accuracy. We're not just looking for someone who is good with numbers; we seek a finance maestro ready to build relationships, influence change, and drive continuous improvement in our dynamic environment.

Your responsibilities

- Lead the delivery of precise and on-time financial reporting, including VAT, tax, and financial statements.

- Be the go-to for building robust processes and controls to ensure accurate accounting.

- Collaborate with our outsourced finance team, ensuring the alignment of financial information, and offering feedback for an efficient month-end process.

- Review and enhance financial policies and procedures, consistently striving for the betterment of our practices.

- Contribute to the year-end audit with preparations and the creation of statutory accounts.

- Constantly empower stronger controls and reconciliations for more effective accounting and timely reporting.

The experience we're looking for

- Hands-on proficiency in the financial reporting cycle post-qualification.

- Proven ability to work effectively with outsourced teams and build strong professional relationships.

- Skilled in critically reviewing work processes and suggesting impactful improvements.

- Able to engage proactively with stakeholders at all levels, with a readiness to challenge and influence where necessary.

- Comfortable navigating high-pressure situations and apt at meeting tight deadlines.

- A relentless agent of change, always seeking ways to enhance business processes.

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.

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