GBS - OTC Cross Functional Manager - Portuguese

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GBS - OTC Cross Functional Manager - Portuguese

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 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

We're searching for a Senior Analyst with a flair for financial detail and a knack for nifty number-crunching. At Reckitt, you are more than just a financial analyst – you're a trusted navigator in the vast sea of numbers, guiding our business with precision through financial analysis and data scrutiny. If delving into trends, building reports, and forming strategic recommendations suits your skillset, then chart your course with us. Play a pivotal role in our continuous cruise toward innovation and excellence.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the day to day governance and execution of dispute, deduction, and trade spend management processes, ensuring compliance with policies, Delegation of Authority threshold adherence, and documentation standards.
• Oversee the investigation, categorization, and resolution of customer disputes and deductions, applying standardized reason codes and ensuring timely closure in ERP/OTC systems of record.
• Manage the validation and settlement of trade promotion and rebate claims, including accruals, credit/debit note issuance, and audit-ready support.
• Monitor SLAs and KPIs (e.g., claim cycle time, accrual accuracy, aged claims, recovery/write-off rates), driving performance across captive and outsourced teams.
• Collaborate with Sales, Customer Service, Supply Chain, and Finance to validate claim evidence, resolve escalations, and implement root-cause fixes that minimize recurrence.
• Drive automation and standardization in SAP and High Radius, enhancing rule-based matching, worklist logic, and reporting capabilities.
• Publish dashboards and performance packs, quantifying benefits from process improvements and course-correcting as needed.
• Monitor deduction and trade spend aging, proactively recover invalid claims, and ensure accurate financial records and audit readiness.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives, contributing to policy clarifications, SOP enhancements, and automation ideas that reduce backlog and improve service quality

The experience we're looking for

• 5–7 years of experience in OTC, trade spend, deduction management, or related operations within a shared services or process-driven organization
• Hands-on expertise with ERP and trade tools, e.g., SAP and High Radius, including claim validation, accruals, and settlements
• Proven ability to lead teams and manage SLAs/KPIs at scale, with a track record of reducing aged claims and leakage through policy and process improvements
• Strong accrual accounting and controls knowledge, including month-end true ups, audit-ready documentation, and compliant credit/debit note processes
• Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management, partnering with Sales, Customer Service, Supply Chain, and Finance to resolve complex issues
• Continuous improvement and automation mindset, leveraging analytics and rule-based design to standardize processes and deliver measurable benefits

The skills for success

• Trade Spend Governance
• Accrual Management
• SAP
• High Radius (Deductions & Trade)
• Contract and Pricing Interpretation
• Delegation of Authority and Controls
• Reason Code Design and Standards
• Audit Readiness and Compliance
• Data Analysis & Reporting
• Power BI and Data Driven Insights
• Stakeholder Engagement

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.