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Finance Transformation Communications Lead - Fixed Term Contract

City: Slough

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.

Corporate Communications & External Affairs

Our communications and external affairs team are at the very heart of Reckitt's brand, purpose and products, bringing them to life around the globe for our employees, consumers, investors, governments and our suppliers. It's a rewarding task, growing and protecting Reckitt's image and brand. Every day, we design public relations and communication strategies that build awareness, trust and relationships, while steering us away from reputational risk. We do this by gathering and maintaining knowledge of our policies, principles, and business strategies, while keeping up-to-date with relevant developments right across our business units and trusted brands. From digital, media and events to employee experience, strategic relationships, and community partners, we identify opportunities to deliver on our business and sustainability agenda, while proactively identifying storylines and opportunities to advance our narrative.

About the role

Reckitt’s Finance Transformation programme is delivering a step change in the way our Finance organisation operates, strengthening capabilities, embedding standard processes, and leveraging new digital tools and technologies to enable a scalable, insight‑driven global Finance function. The Finance Transformation Communications Lead defines and coordinates the overall communication strategy and plan for the programme. This includes developing compelling, timely and clear communications that support major transformation milestones, drive engagement, and help our people understand and adopt new ways of working. A key part of the role is ensuring all communications uphold the corporate communications strategy, follow Reckitt’s brand guidelines and tone of voice, and apply the approved global templates, cascading them effectively to regional and local markets. Collaboration with external consulting partners will be essential to ensure quality, accuracy and consistency across all communication materials.

Your responsibilities

Own and maintain the Finance Transformation communications plan, ensuring alignment with the overall Finance and business communications plans.
Ensure all messaging adheres to Reckitt brand guidelines, tone of voice and global communication principles.
Translate complex transformation activities into clear, accessible and engaging communications for diverse global audiences.
Map and understand stakeholder needs across the transformation programme to enable targeted, timely communication.
Ensure communications reflect the vision and direction of the CFO and wider Finance leadership team.

Execution & Leadership

Develop and deliver high‑quality communications across multiple channels (Viva Engage, email, MS Teams, SharePoint, video, presentations).
Work closely with consulting partners, validating content, aligning messages and ensuring deliverables meet Reckitt’s communication and brand standards.
Input into the design, preparation and delivery of Finance transformation events (e.g., all hands meetings, leadership sessions, roadshows).
Draft and edit senior leader messaging, talking points, presentations and narrative materials.
Ensure global communication templates, toolkits and best‑practice frameworks are cascaded, adopted and correctly applied by regional and market teams.

Measurement & Reporting

Evaluate communication effectiveness using surveys, analytics and qualitative feedback.
Track and report stakeholder engagement, sentiment and readiness across markets.
Recommend improvements to strengthen engagement, clarity and adoption across all regions.

Capability Building & Continuous Improvement

Build communication capability within the change network, and local leadership teams.
Guide local change leads on major communication activities, sharing best practice and lessons learned.
Drive continuous improvement in how the programme communicates change across the organisation.

The experience we're looking for

Proven experience in a communications lead role, ideally within transformation, organisational change or Finance/Tech environments.
Strong corporate communication experience within a global, complex business.
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast‑paced, highly dynamic programme environment.
Experience supporting or leading communications in Finance, digital, or IT transformation programmes.
Skilled in senior stakeholder management across global and regional teams.
Proficient with digital communication tools (Viva Engage, MS Teams, SharePoint) and Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
Strong project and time‑management capabilities with the ability to prioritise and work autonomously.
Excellent English language skills, both verbal and written.
Passionate about the power of organisational change & effective communications

The skills for success

Strong critical analysis and risk mitigation, Ability to analyse data and create and report insights, Ability to build trust and rapport with others, Strong attention to detail, Problem solving mindset, Ability to work independently and as part of a team, Self-motivated and highly organised, Creative and structured

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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