Senior Sales Controller

About the Position

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.

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.

Senior Sales Controller

City: Budapest, Hungary

The Sales Finance team provides analytical support and financial visibility to enable effective commercial decision-making and performance management.

Responsibilities

• Act as finance business partner to sales teams, supporting forecasting, trade spend management, and profitability analysis. Deliver actionable insights and ensure strong financial discipline in commercial decisions.

• Lead local forecasting cycles and consolidate inputs from sales teams. Ensure alignment with IBP timelines and assumptions. Identify risks and opportunities and propose corrective actions. Improve forecast transparency and accuracy.

• Finance partner to Sales Managers and Key Account Managers (KAMs). Provide insights on customer profitability, pricing, promotions, and recommendations. Support execution of commercial plans and performance tracking. Challenge assumptions and ensure financial discipline in decisions. Act as a link between sales and central finance teams.

• Manage trade spend planning and performance monitoring. Work with central teams for reporting and analytics. Evaluate promotions and provide ROI insights. Support optimization of budget allocation.

• Support allocation of budgets across customers and channels. Build business cases and support negotiations. Identify profitability improvement opportunities. Drive adoption of tools and standard processes.

• Ensure compliance with internal control policies including trade spend and pricing approvals. Perform control reviews and variance checks. Ensure proper documentation and support remediation actions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field preferred.

• At least 5 years of finance or controlling experience. Strong Excel and analytical skills with high attention to detail.

• Strong analytical and organizational skills. Ability to collaborate effectively across functions. Proactive and detail-oriented mindset.

• Strong reporting and data handling capabilities. Experience with finance systems is a plus.

• Advanced level of English.

Skills for Success

• Business acumen
• Investment Analysis
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Project Management
• Improve business processes
• Accounting principles
• Financial Reporting
• Internal controls
• Financial analysis and reporting
• Stakeholder engagement and influence
• Strategic thinking
• Risk management
• Relationship management

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 recognize, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

About the Company

We recognize 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.