Trade Finance Analyst with German
Reckitt
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- Trade Finance Analyst with German
- City: Warszawa
- 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.
- About Global Business Services
Behind our iconic power brands that touch millions of lives daily – from Dettol and Lysol to Durex and Nurofen – lies a dynamic and vital engine: Reckitt's Global Business Services (GBS).Fuelled by a culture of positive energy and co-creativity - while learning together - OneReckitt GBS is at the forefront of our business, driving efficiency, standardisation, and innovation across our global operations. We're a fast-paced, purposeful team, constantly seeking to optimise our processes, leverage cutting-edge technology, and deliver exceptional value to every corner of Reckitt.
We’re not a traditional back-office function; we’re a strategic powerhouse where diverse individuals with bright minds come together to solve complex challenges, shape future capabilities, and build a better global business that directly helps achieve Reckitt’s missionOur 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
As the OTC Trade Analyst, you will manage the end-to-end lifecycle of trade promotion claims—validating submissions against approved contracts and price conditions, reconciling and truing-up promotion accruals, and ensuring timely, compliant settlement. Partnering with Sales, Customer Service, and Finance, you will safeguard working capital by reducing leakage from invalid or noncompliant claims, strengthening audit trails, and standardizing ways of working across markets. You will leverage SAP, Vistex and/or HighRadius trade modules to prioritize worklists, enable rule-based matching, and improve automation while maintaining accurate, audit ready records.
- Your responsibilities
- Validate and process trade promotion/rebate claims against approved contracts, pricing terms, and promotion mechanics; document evidence and update case status in ERP/OTC tools.
- Validate promotional invoices using external EPOS data & promotional plans set out by Sales
- Create, monitor, and true up trade spend accruals; reconcile accruals versus actual claims and post month end adjustments in line with policy.
- Coordinate with Sales, Customer Service, and Finance to resolve discrepancies, enforce segregation of duties, and escalate per Delegation of Authority.
- Prepare and post credit/debit notes and settlements; attach supporting documentation to maintain compliance and audit readiness.
- Use SAP/Vistex/HighRadius worklists to prioritize and automate matching; propose rule enhancements (e.g., probability-based matching, standardized reason codes) to reduce manual effort.
- Track and report KPIs (e.g., claim cycle time, aged claims, accrual accuracy, write off and recovery rates); flag risks and improvement opportunities.
- Contribute to upstream fixes and standardization (TPM policy, contract data quality, price condition governance) to prevent recurring issues and leakage across markets
- The experience we're looking for
- Experience in trade spend, TPM, rebates, or deductions within a shared services or process driven organization
- Hands-on experience with ERP and trade tools, such as SAP with Vistex and/or HighRadius Trade (claim validation, promotion matching, settlements)
- Proven ability to validate and settle promotion claims at scale, interpreting contracts, pricing conditions, and promotional mechanics accurately
- Strong accrual accounting knowledge with experience creating, reconciling, and truing up trade spend accruals through month end close
- Excellent cross functional communication and stakeholder management, partnering with Sales, Customer Service, and Finance to resolve issues quickly
- Continuous improvement mindset, leveraging analytics and standardized rules to reduce manual effort, aging, and revenue leakage
- Proficiency in English and German is required
- The skills for success
- Project management, Financial systems, Improve business processes, Accounting Principles, Financial Reporting, Stakeholder engagement and influence.
- 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 pe