Financial Accountant (12-month fixed-term contract)

City: Soborg 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
Are you a finance professional looking to bring your analytical thinking to a vibrant and forward-thinking company? As our new Finance Analyst you'll have the unique chance to contribute directly to the financial well-being of our operations. Your expertise will guide the financial management of our Factory, Supply, and Procurement functions, ensuring we run at peak efficiency. Join us at Reckitt where your attention to detail and dedication to excellence can truly shine.

Your responsibilities

• Support accurate VAT, Intrastat, and other statutory reporting
• Prepare monthly Trial Balance with all supporting documents
• Support Tax-related calculations, postings, and compliance activities
• Prepare GRIR/Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable and Net Working Capital reports
• Prepare Balance Sheet reconciliations with proper documentation
• Support internal and external audit processes
• Support statutory accounting under Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Finish GAAP
• Prepare External Statistical Reports to authorities
• Support tasks performed by internal/external service providers

The experience we're looking for

• 3-4 years of experience in Audit / Accounting / Finance
• Ideally experience working in tax advisory or audit company

The skills for success

• Very good knowledge in SAP (or a comparable ERP system)
• Ideally Danish/Swedish tax knowledge
• Very good knowledge of MS-Office, especially Excel
• Good or advanced debtor/creditor accounting skills
• Project Management, Financial Reporting, Accounting principles, Financial Analysis and reporting.

Language:

• High degree of fluency in English (writing and speaking)
• Ideally also fluent in Danish (or another Nordics language)

Personal skills:

• Team player
• Structured and prioritising
• Highly analytical and conceptual
• Self-starter and very organised
• Challenger mentality
• Ideally internationally mobile
• Highly motivated
• Looking for challenges
• Flexible with the ability to work in a changing environment
• Taking processes, using and improving them for oneself
• Clear communicator
• Convincing personality

Nice to have:

• Good knowledge in sales tax law/VAT
• University degree or equivalent, focus on accounting and tax
• ACCA or comparable qualification
• FMCG knowledge would be beneficial

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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