Regional Tax Manager WEU

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 the Global Business Services

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 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 Regional Tax Compliance and Reporting Manager – Local, Direct and Indirect Taxes, you will report to the Area Tax Compliance and Reporting Senior Manager with a dotted line to the respective Regional Controller, supporting tax compliance and reporting activities across multiple markets. You will prepare and review tax filings, analyse tax positions, and provide insights to support business decisions. This role offers the opportunity to work on a variety of Local, Direct and Indirect Tax matters, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and develop your expertise in a dynamic, global environment.

Your responsibilities

Tax Compliance

• Manage the regional tax compliance and reporting calendar, ensuring timely filings and payments.
• Oversee direct and indirect tax compliance across entities, working with outsourced/co-sourced providers.
• Review tax computations, corporate tax returns, VAT/GST returns, WHT filings, transfer pricing documentation, and Pillar 2 submissions where applicable.
• Analyze financial data, resolve provider queries, and review tax implications of accounting transactions, reorganizations, and business changes.
• Prepare/review tax journal entries, tax payments, VAT refund claims, tax incentive applications, and local tax filings.
• Review statutory accounts tax disclosures, deferred tax calculations, and balance sheet reconciliations, coordinating with auditors as required.
• Support annual tax controls testing and ensure compliance with internal governance standards.
• Monitor tax law changes and update processes, policies, and procedures accordingly.

Tax Reporting & Provision

• Prepare, review, and submit tax reporting information through Longview and other group reporting systems.
• Review quarterly and annual tax reporting packs, tax provisions, deferred tax balances, and statutory disclosures.
• Support effective tax rate forecasting and ensure timely delivery of audit and group reporting requirements.
• Define and monitor tax compliance and reporting KPIs, escalating risks where necessary.

Tax Controversy & Advisory

• Maintain a regional tax controversy tracker and support tax audits and authority inquiries.
• Partner with Group Tax, external advisors, and local teams on audits, disputes, and strategic tax matters.
• Provide financial analysis and documentation for tax authority requests and internal projects.

Business Partnering & Transformation

• Collaborate with Controllers, Finance teams, Group Tax, and outsourced providers to ensure end-to-end tax compliance.
• Support tax technology, automation, data analytics, and process improvement initiatives.
• Oversee the Tax Controls Framework, compliance governance, and exception management processes.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardization across tax compliance and reporting activities.

Leadership

• Lead and develop team members where applicable, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of corporate, indirect, and local tax compliance obligations.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or tax
• 8-12 years of experience in tax compliance or analysis
• Strong technical knowledge of tax regulations and reporting
• Big Four trained (desirable)
• Experience working in the Shared Service Center and Center of Excellence environment is desired  
• Advance English; other European languages (e.g. Portuguese, French, Italian) are desirable   
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience of managing teams
• Experience with SAP and Longview Tax software is desired
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities

The skills for success

Internal controls, Financial reporting, Accounting principles, Stakeholder engagement and influence, Improve business processes, Financial systems, Project management.

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