Planning & Reporting CoE Director

Reckitt Benckiser India Pvt Ltd

Hyderabad, India

12-15 Years

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Job Description

About Us

We'reReckitt, home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene and health 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.

About the Finance Planning & Reporting CoE

Our Finance team is not just another departmentwe'restrategic partners and catalysts for change, who use ourexpertiseto 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

As Centre of Excellence (CoE) & Planning and Reporting (P&R) Lead, you will play a pivotal role in our Finance Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, reporting directly to the VP of FP&A. You'll provide thought leadership and drive continuous improvement across all planning and reporting activities, ensuring FP&A operates efficiently and delivers high-quality, trusted outputs.

You'll lead the P&R CoE to deliver best-in-class planning, forecasting, and reporting capabilities while identify opportunities to optimize FP&A processes and enhance how the FP&A team operates. You'll establish scalable processes, define reporting standards, and develop tools that enable timely, accurate, and insightful analysis across the organizations. By combining a deep understanding of data, process, and business context, you will transform how FP&A delivers insights and supports strategic decision making.

Your responsibilities

Strategic Leadership:Lead the strategic vision anddirectionof theCoEand P&Rinitiatives,championingcontinuous improvement andclarity of purposeacross FP&A.
Collaboration with Finance Leadership: Partner closely with Area CFOs, CHQ Leadership, and otherhubleads to align planning and reporting strategy and enable efficient, coordinated hub delivery.
Operational Management:Oversee thecentraloperational execution ofall baselineplanning, forecasting, and reporting activities, ensuring high-quality deliverables that drive business insights.
Financial Analytics Framework:Implement a framework forreportingandanalytics that supports data-driven decision-making, including the development of standardized reporting processes and automation of forecasting models.
Global Standards & Process Improvement:Championcontinuous improvementby leadinginitiatives tostandardize andenhanceFP&A processes, promote best practices, and enhance team efficiency.
Performance Monitoring:Oversee key performance indicators, ensuringaccurateplanning andreportingthatprovidesactionable insights to leadership.
Finance Transformation: Participatein finance transformation initiatives bychampioningopportunitiesand technology solutionsto streamline and improve existing FP&A processes,standardisation ofreport templates and the automation of manual tasks to enhance efficiency.

The experience we're looking for

Degree educated or equivalent
Minimum 12-15 years of professional experience in finance, with a deep understanding of financial processes including consolidation, budgeting, and forecasting, ideally within the CPG sector.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.Ability to work collaboratively across geographies and functions
Experienced in managing teams and driving operational excellence and continuous improvement
Thought leadership with FP&A tools, Excel, and reporting/visualization platforms (e.g., Power BI).
Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a strategic mindset to align technology solutions with business goals.
Strong communication skills, capable of bridging the gap between finance and business stakeholders.

The skills for success

Team Leadership
Strategic Planning
Financial Analysis & Reporting
Business Partnering
Process Improvement
Data Visualisation Skills
Project Management
Cross-functional Collaboration
Change Management
Continuous Improvement Mindset

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 peopledon'talways tick all theboxes.That'swhy we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if youdon'tmeet every point on the job description, if this role and our companyfeelslike 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.