Controls Assurance Manager EM
About Us
We’re Reckitt, home to the world’s best loved and trusted hygiene and health 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 mission.
About the role
As a Controls Assurance Manager within the Global Internal Controls (GIC) organisation, you will play a critical role in driving Reckitt’s global controls transformation and assurance agenda. Based in our Centre of Excellence (COE) in Hyderabad, you will provide senior oversight across assurance delivery, analytical insight, and high‑quality execution of our global controls programme.
You will collaborate closely with Regional Controls Teams, the Internal Testing Team, third‑party providers, and market stakeholders to deliver consistent control design, testing, remediation and reporting across Reckitt’s global operations. This role requires strong technical expertise, sound judgement, and the ability to guide junior team members while managing escalations effectively.
Your responsibilities
Controls Transformation, Testing & Assurance
- Partner with Regional Controls Teams to deliver controls transformation and assurance activities, including control design assessment, operational effectiveness testing, and remediation support.
- Coordinate with the Internal Testing Team and thirdparty providers to ensure timely, accurate delivery of the global testing plan.
- Perform quality reviews of AuditBoard documentation to ensure alignment to global methodologies and consistent, highquality assurance outputs.
- Support targeted reviews and deepdive assessments, bringing an analytical lens to identify risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
Stakeholder Support & Issue Management
- Provide guidance and advice to market and functional stakeholders on internal controls, issue remediation, and control design improvements.
- Apply sound judgement to manage issues, oversee escalations, and remove blockers to delivery.
Reporting, Analytics & Continuous Improvement
- Support reporting of control results and insights via Power BI dashboards, including investigation of exceptions and validation of findings.
- Contribute to the evolution of the global control framework, including supporting automation and data-driven testing initiatives.
- Promote standardisation, methodology adherence, and continuous improvement across the COE and wider GIC function.
Team Leadership & Oversight
- Provide supervisory oversight and coaching to analysts and testing resources, ensuring quality and capability development.
- Support embedding of global ways of working and strengthening the internal controls capability across the team.
The experience we're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
- Professional qualification (CA/CPA/CIA/CISA) preferred.
- 7–12 years of experience in audit, internal controls, risk management, financial controls or a similar assurance environment.
- Strong understanding of internal controls frameworks (e.g., SOX/ICFR) and assurance methodologies.
The skills for success
- Experience working with global teams and/or shared services/COE environments.
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Strong communication skills with an ability to collaborate across time zones and regions.
- Strong documentation quality and attention to detail.
- Familiarity with ERP systems (SAP or JDE) is a plus.
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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