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Senior Internal Audit Manager - Product

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.

Finance

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 for Reckitt. With a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and partnership, our inclusive, diverse and energised team breaks down traditional barriers, enabling you to thrive in a dynamic environment where you and your ideas matter. From leveraging insights and analysis to make data-driven decisions - to spearheading sustainable business practices that contribute to consistent and reliable business growth - we are unwaveringly passionate about making a meaningful impact, and always doing the right thing.

About the role

As the Internal Audit Senior Manager – Product, you will lead the scoping, planning, and execution of complex, high-impact audits across Reckitt’s end-to-end product lifecycle, from innovation through to supply and in-market performance.

You will partner with senior stakeholders across R&D, Supply, Manufacturing, Quality, and Procurement teams, bringing curiosity, critical thinking, and business acumen to identify and assess value at risk, identify root causes and drive commercially actionable insight.

You will also play a key role in evolving intelligence-led audit planning, contributing to the development of data, analytics, and risk insights to better target areas of highest risk and value.

This is a highly visible leadership role requiring the ability to navigate and influence in a fast-moving environment, whilst leading and coaching audit teams, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities

Lead end-to-end audits across the product lifecycle, focusing on areas of highest value at risk
Identify where value is created, eroded, or exposed across product, supply, and manufacturing processes, and translate findings into clear commercial insights
Partner with senior stakeholders to challenge, influence, and drive pragmatic action
Apply critical thinking and curiosity to uncover root causes and systemic issues
Support the development of intelligence-led audit planning, including use of data and analytics
Contribute to building a data and intelligence hub within COE to enhance risk insight and audit targeting
Lead and coach audit teams to deliver high-quality, insight-driven outcome

The experience we're looking for

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business, Marketing, or a related field.
10 – 12 years’ experience in internal audit, risk, finance, or operational roles within FMCG, consumer health, or similar
Exposure to product lifecycle, manufacturing, supply chain, or R&D (depth in one or more areas preferred, not all required)
Experience in delivering complex audits and influence senior stakeholders
Experience in business partnering and working in global, cross-functional environments
Previous exposure to analytics tools (e.g., Power BI) and ERP systems (SAP/JDE) preferred

The skills for success

End to end audits
Financial systems
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to link risk to business performance
Critical thinking, curiosity, and problem-solving capability
Ability to translate data into insight and action; familiarity with analytics tools is a plus
Strong communication skills with a focus on clarity and impact

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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