Sales Controller

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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.

**Finance**:
**About the role**:
Want to see what’s around the corner? As Sales Controller - Lisbon at Reckitt, you’ll have the freedom to find new ways to help us prepare for the future. Whatever lies ahead.

**Sales Controller - Lisbon**

**Lisbon, Lisboa**

**Competitive Salary & excellent benefits package**

Enabling the smooth running of our business, you’ll support our forecasting and planning. You’ll tell the story behind the data, providing the financial intelligence our leadership depends on to make critical decisions. You’ll ensure the integrity and accuracy of reporting. You’ll collaborate with other finance teams and manage reporting, compliance and controls projects. Ultimately, your analysis will provide the insights that allows us to grow our business and manage our costs.

**You’ll succeed because**

you’ve a foundation in accounting or financial analysis. You’ve worked with general ledger and reporting systems. You thrive under pressure and hit tight deadlines. You have a close attention to detail and your analytical mindset means you spot trends and anomalies others miss. Most importantly, you’re an excellent communicator, willing to share your views and influence others using facts and data.

**You’ll love it because**

you’ll get to make an impact like never before. You’ll be responsible for your own projects - we can’t wait to hear your ideas. The products you help us get out there will make people’s lives better. Our iconic brands will provide an incredible platform for you. And our dynamic, ownership-driven culture will help bring the very best out of you, every day.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Overall ownership of delivering full P&L savings.
- Conduct research to ascertain the cheapest costs and ways of working, while maintaining company quality standards and best in class effectiveness.
- Liaise between commercial and manufacturing organization and P&L, including all departments.
- Build and maintain good relationships with internal and external partners.
- Inputting savings identified in to the forecast and plan processes.
- Run monthly Can-Do review with top management.
- Develop a Can-Do strategy.
- Evaluate option and make recommendations to management, based on commercial and industrial factors.
- Control Customer Discounts in SAP system.
- Control and solve customer price differences.
- Sales Controller Manager support and back-up.

**The experience we're looking for**:

- Business or Economic science with specific knowledge or specialization in Finance and/or costs graduation
- 2/3 years of demonstrated experience in managing expenditures in a multinational FMCG company (e.g.: promotional gadgets, POS/printing, copy production, packaging design, displays, Cost of goods, fixed costs, embellishment)

Languages required:

- Native Portuguese
- Proficiency English
- Spanish will be valuable

**The skills for success**:

- Results oriented, entrepreneurial and self-motivating.
- Tenacious and resilient, driven to achieve even when faced with obstacles.
- Leadership and interpersonal skills capable of building strong working relationships and influencing and customers and internal teams.
- Strong commercial and industrial understanding of business issues/opportunities.
- Strong understanding of Sales and Marketing strategy and planning issues.
- Strong analytical skills with ability to develop strategies, tactics and measurable implementation.
- Ability to think outside the box.

**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**:
At Reckitt, 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 fr