Job Specifications
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.
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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
As Internal Audit Director - Enabling Functions & Risk Management, you will lead audit activities across enabling functions (Finance, HR & Payroll, Legal & Compliance, GBS, IT&D etc.) and provide independent oversight of enterprise risk management processes. This includes challenging risk frameworks, monitoring emerging risks, and ensuring robust governance and control processes across the Group. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, deliver high-impact audits, and support the development of a strong risk-aware culture. This role combines strategic audit leadership with risk management oversight, ensuring alignment with IIA standards and best practices
Your responsibilities
Audit leadership and oversight
Lead and sign off audit activities across enabling functions and risk management domains independently.
Own a portfolio of valued activities, including thematic audits and cross-cutting risk analysis.
Ensure robust governance and control processes, maintaining strong relationships at senior executive levels.
Provide strategic oversight and challenge over audit activity, acting as a trusted advisor to relevant GEC members
Risk Management Oversight
Provide oversight and challenge on the design and maintenance of the enterprise risk management framework, ensuring alignment with governance principles and regulatory expectations.
Oversee and challenge enterprise-wide risk identification, assessment, and prioritization processes, including maintenance of a centralized risk register.
Provide independent challenge on risk response strategies and ensure alignment between controls and identified risks.
Monitor key and emerging risks, ensuring timely escalation and reporting to executive management and the board.
Promote a strong risk-aware culture across the organization, embedding risk considerations into strategic planning and decision-making.
Collaborate with compliance, internal controls, and other oversight functions to maintain a cohesive second-line risk management system.
Stakeholder engagement
Represent Global Audit in the business, engaging with senior stakeholders including GEC and GEC-1 members.
Influence and facilitate discussions to deliver impactful insights and recommendations.
Actively contribute to strategic improvements within Global Audit and risk management practices.
Leadership & Development
Lead by example and foster a high-performance culture within the team.
Mentor and develop Global Audit staff, ensuring succession planning and capability building.
Champion innovation in audit and risk methodologies, including digital enablement.
The experience we're looking for
Qualified auditor/accountant with a proven track record of successfully leading internal audit and/or risk management teams in a major international organization or large accounting practice.
10+ years of experience in Internal Audit, Risk Management or related roles.
FMCG/Consumer Health experience preferred, with strong understanding of corporate functions and enterprise risk frameworks.
Expertise in developing and innovating leading internal audit and risk management processes, systems, and practices.
Strategic mindset with ability to interpret and evaluate control and process issues.
Strong influencing and communication skills across global boundaries.
Ability to manage multiple stakeholder communities with varying levels of experience.
Comfortable working with ERP systems and modern analytics tools (JDE/SAP/Power BI desirable).
The skills for success
Market Liquidity, Cash flow management, Foreign exchange risk management, Business accumen, Investment Analysis, Budgeting & Forecasting, Project Management, Improve business processes, Accounting principles, Financial Reporting, Internal controls, Financial analysis and reporting, Stakeholder engagement and influence, Strategic thinking, Risk management, Relat
About the Company
Every day, in everything we do, our purpose is to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. And we have a fight on our hands. A fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment a right and not a privilege.
Each of our products is designed to do exactly this. Our well-loved brands have been making a difference to people’s daily lives around the world for more than 200 years. Brands including: Durex, Dettol, Enfamil, Nurofen, Strepsils, Gaviscon, Mucinex, N...
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