GBS Commercial Accounting Sr Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior leadership and governance across GBS-delivered RTR operations, ensuring alignment with accounting policies, internal controls, and global standard ways of working
• Define and maintain RTR governance frameworks, including close calendars, reconciliation standards, escalation thresholds, and control requirements
• Oversee period-end close performance, providing senior review and challenge over key journal entries, accruals, reserves, and reconciliations
• Own RTR risk management and audit readiness for GBS-delivered activities, including remediation of control issues
• Set and monitor the RTR performance framework (SLAs, KPIs, close metrics) and hold teams accountable for outcomes
• Partner with the RTR Global Process Owner (GPO) to drive standardisation, automation, data quality and continuous improvement across RTR processes
• Drive transformation initiatives from the GPO focused on close acceleration, automation, accuracy, and data integrity
• Lead and develop RTR management and senior analyst teams, ensuring capability development, performance management, and succession planning

Qualification & Requirements

The experience we’re looking for

• 8–12 years of experience in Record-to-Report, financial accounting, or related finance operations
• Proven experience leading RTR delivery within a shared services or process-driven environment
• Strong understanding of accounting processes, journal entries, accruals, reserves, reconciliations, and period-end close
• Experience operating in a global or multi-entity environment
• Strong executive communication, judgment, and stakeholder management skills

The skills for success

• RTR Leadership and Governance
• Financial Accounting and Close Framework Oversight
• Accruals, Reserves, and Reconciliation Governance
• Intercompany and Fixed Assets Accounting Oversight
• Internal Controls, Risk, and Audit Readiness
• Performance Management and KPIs
• ERP Systems (SAP or similar)
• Process Standardisation and Continuous Improvement
• Fluent English required; additional languages advantageous.

Benefits

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.