Global Tax Process Owner

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

The Global Process Owner (GPO) for Tax is a strategic leadership position responsible for overseeing and optimising the end-to-end tax processes across the organisation on a global scale. The GPO will ensure that tax operations are efficient, compliant, and aligned with the company's overall business objectives. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, including finance, legal, operations as well as our tax compliance outsource provider, to design and implement best practices in tax management. The role requires technical expertise in both technology and tax. To deliver best in class processes, the role will work with outsourced / captive GBS teams, Group Tax and third-party advisors to address local nuance. 

Your responsibilities

Tax Compliance

• Execute the global tax compliance strategy set by Tax Reporting & Analytics / Indirect Tax Directors.
• Design and standardize tax processes, driving global transformation and process improvements.
• Implement and ensure ongoing adherence to approved CoE ways of workin
• Work with Area Tax leads to monitor legislative and business changes to keep systems and processes compliant.

Transformation

• Support implementation of the future tax operating model.
• Identify efficiency opportunities, automation areas, and cost‑saving initiatives.
• Improve tax processes and controls, ensuring effective rollout of enhancements.
• Partner with Global Process Owners to assess upstream process changes linked to transformation or continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with CHQ Tax leadership on tax technology strategy and alignment with Reckitt’s enterprise systems for Direct and Indirect Tax.
• Support deployment and adoption of tax technology solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement of tax systems, including SAP.
• Manage budgets, ROI tracking, and third‑party/technology provider engagements to ensure solutions meet Reckitt standards.

Business Partnering

• Act as the link between CHQ, Controllership, and CoE tax teams to ensure end‑to‑end process ownership.
• Work with cross‑functional teams, Global Process Owners, and senior leadership to support change management initiatives impacting Tax.

The experience we're looking for

• 5+ years relevant Tax experience preferable
• Recognised tax/accounting qualification e.g. CTA
• Experience leading a global tax function design or technology implementation focused on process improvement
• Strong numerical, analytical and problem solving skills
• Proven ability to lead, oversee, motivate and manage people in a Tax & Compliance environment

The skills for success

• Proven ability to lead, oversee, motivate and manage people in a Tax & Compliance environment
• Excellent knowledge of leadership, coaching and people development
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience with SAP (inc. PaPM), MSFT applications such as Co-Pilot, Power Platforms, etc., and other tax technology.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of all Tax processes including best practice in Tax, people, processes and technology (including workflow management)
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results under tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels including a wide range of stakeholders

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