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Employment Tax and UK Payroll Manager

City: Warszawa

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.

Human Resources

Our HR Team are the force for good that bring Reckitt's ambition to life. We work together to ensure the delivery of sustained profitable growth by unleashing the power of our purpose, people and performance. Now is an exciting time to be part of shaping the future of HR, influencing an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time. Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams. We focus on developing our leaders to spearhead our culture and growth, so you'll be supported and mentored to deliver the right plans to drive business performance - and we'll celebrate the results with you along the way.

About the role

Employment Tax Manager & Regional Payroll Manager – UK is responsible for leading the end‑to‑end payroll governance and operations for the UK market, ensuring full compliance, accuracy, and an exceptional service experience for employees and stakeholders. This role drives standardisation, operational excellence, and risk‑free delivery while partnering closely with internal and external stakeholders.

Your responsibilities

Operational Deliverables

Lead Payroll Delivery & Governance - Oversee and govern payroll operations for the UK market through internal teams and external providers, ensuring delivery adheres to Reckitt’s “Working Together” principles and operational excellence standards.
Ensure Accurate & Compliant Payroll Execution - Guarantee timely and precise payroll calculations and statutory remittances. Maintain strict adherence to UK legislation, HMRC requirements, and company internal controls.
Manage Compliance & Risk Mitigation - Monitor legal and regulatory updates, working with payroll partners, auditors, and legal advisors to maintain full compliance. Drive a zero‑tolerance approach toward compliance breaches and proactively de‑risk payroll operations.
Act as the Primary Payroll Expert & Point of Contact - Serve as the single point of contact for payroll‑related matters, providing guidance to stakeholders, addressing escalations, and ensuring alignment with global payroll frameworks and standards.
Drive Continuous Improvement & Error Prevention - Monitor, analyze, and correct payroll errors; ensure root‑cause elimination and improved ways of working. Report financial impacts and collaborate with partners to strengthen controls and prevent recurrence.
Vendor Management & Operational Effectiveness - Partner with external payroll providers to ensure high service delivery standards and strong return on investment. Collaborate with Vendor Management to evaluate performance, optimize costs, and maintain unwavering delivery quality.
Lead Operational Initiatives & Team Capability Building - Champion key initiatives—including audits, productivity improvements, and learning & development—to enhance team performance. Ensure effective succession planning and coordination with HR Shared Services and Finance.
Ensure Robust Stakeholder Governance & Reporting - Lead regular governance forums, presenting payroll performance, risk metrics, KPIs, and customer insights. Strengthen organization‑wide confidence through transparent reporting and continuous improvement actions.
Uphold Organizational Standards - Drive core organizational processes such as performance management, engagement initiatives, knowledge sharing, business continuity planning, and best‑practice optimization.
Contribute to Transformation & Strategic Projects - Play a key role in shaping and executing payroll transformation initiatives aimed at process simplification, automation, productivity gains, and alignment with broader organizational objectives.
Responsible for responding to UK employment tax matter relates queries, eg tax code changes, treatment of expatriate related payments and generic questions related to the UK payroll.
Support in managing UK compliance activities, eg the PSA, STBV reporting. Support in managing queries from the business/vendors on cross-border employee moves and domestic employment/payroll tax matters, particularly when they impact how the payroll is operated.

The experience we're looking for

Proven experience managing endtoend payroll operations in the UK, ideally in a complex, multientity or fastpaced environment.
Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, including HMRC regulations, PAYE, NIC, statutory payments, pensions (incl. autoenrolment), and yearend activities.
Experience working with outsourced payroll providers and driving vendor performance and compliance.
Demonstrated experience in payroll governance, audit readiness, internal controls, and risk mitigation.
Strong analytical capability to identify payroll discrepancies, investigate root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
Minimum 5- 8 years of experience in payroll profile.
Proven track record in driving process optimisation, standardisation, and automation.
Ability to implement KPIs, SLAs, governance routines, and performance dashboards.
Capability to support transformation initiatives and deliver productivity improvements.
Understanding of integrated HRIS–Payroll environments and data flows.Strong IT and Powerpoint skills with excellent presentation skills, nice to have alteryx experience.
Strong organization skills with ability to prioritise – must be able to manage time effectively in a challenging environment and good communication skills.

The skills for success

UK Payroll, Employment Tax Expertise, Communication & Presentation, Analytical & Data Handling, Consultative Approach

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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