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Manager - Payroll

City: Gurugram

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.

Human Resources

Our HR Team are the force for good that bring Reckitt's ambition to life. We work together to ensure the delivery of sustained profitable growth by unleashing the power of our purpose, people and performance. Now is an exciting time to be part of shaping the future of HR, influencing an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time. Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams. We focus on developing our leaders to spearhead our culture and growth, so you'll be supported and mentored to deliver the right plans to drive business performance - and we'll celebrate the results with you along the way.

About the role

Step into the opportunity to become Reckitt’s UK Payroll Manager, where your expertise in payroll operations plays a central role in ensuring accuracy, compliance, and an exceptional employee experience. In this key position, you will lead the end‑to‑end payroll process for the UK, overseeing statutory requirements, auditing data integrity, and partnering closely with HR, Finance, and external providers to deliver flawless execution every pay cycle.

Your leadership will be essential in driving continuous improvement, enhancing payroll controls, and optimising processes to support Reckitt’s evolving workforce. If you’re passionate about delivering high‑quality payroll services, thrive in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment, and are motivated by the impact your work has on every employee, this role is the perfect fit for you.

Your responsibilities

Contribute through others for a region consisting of critical markets and stakeholders. Establish a culture of Working Together symmetrical to Reckitt’s principles
Govern payroll and ensure delivery dealing with the proper payroll partner
Monitor and Comply with legal statutes . Liaise with payroll partners, audit advisors, legal advisors to sync payroll calculations and remittances to the legal, financial and regulatory norms. Ensure Zero Tolerance to compliance violations and de-risking payroll
Partner with stakeholders in the region for each markets. Should emerge as the Single Point of Contact for all payroll subjects, queries, issues, escalations. Sync the payroll process with Global Payroll principles to ensure standardization of delivery and controls
Review, Correct and Prevent the errors within payroll and ensure the team works on the corrected ways of working. Diligently report the financial impact of errors & data breaches and work with partners to deploy controls as a way forward
Liaise with vendors for operational effectiveness providing the best ROI over and above contractual obligation. Partner with our Vendor Leads to govern the effectiveness of the partners. Rationalize ways to reduce the additional costs incurred while maintaining non compromise of quality delivered
Actively spearhead the Operations Initiatives like Audit, Productivity Enhancements, Learning & Development to coach the team ensuring a succession plan and back up matrix. Partner with cross teams – HRSSC, Finance to contribute to success story of the delivery--Contribute to the overall transformation projects to streamline the delivery, enhance productivity, align with organizational objectives. Provide direction and advisory on the basis of real time set backs within the process;

The experience we're looking for

Proven experience as a Payroll Manager or similar role in UK
Proven managerial skills with respect to payroll delivery
Adept at Change Management and Communications
Excellent analytical skills
Knowledge of one or more of the Payroll application systems preferred
Effective communication and interpersonal skills
Demonstrated actitude for acquiring new technical skills in data reporting
Ability to communicate with all Global stakeholders in English

The skills for success

HR Process Improvement; Process management; HR Process improvement, Storytelling; Data led storytelling, HR Data Analsyis; Data management; Employee data management, Solutioning.

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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