Payroll and Benefits Senior Analyst - UK

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

At Reckitt, we believe our people are at the heart of our success.  

As a Payroll & Benefits Senior Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of accurate, compliant, and employee-centric payroll services while supporting a complex and dynamic international environment. 

This role goes beyond transactional payroll processing. You will serve as a trusted payroll expert, driving operational excellence, risk mitigation, compliance, and continuous improvement across your designated markets. You will work closely with HR, Finance, Tax, external payroll providers, and business stakeholders to ensure payroll operations are executed to the highest standard. 

Given our current strategic priorities, we are particularly interested in professionals with strong UK payroll expertise, including experience navigating complex tax, social security, and equity-related payroll matters. The role will be based out of Reckitt’s global hub in Poland and will report into the Employment Tax and UK Payroll Manager.

Your responsibilities

Payroll Projects Support 

•    Support Payroll Projects, such as payrolling of statutory benefits, audits and reconciliations and any other Payroll Changes, including User Acceptance Testing.  

•    Work on documenting the payroll processes in line with Global Payroll Process Procedure. 

•    Identify gaps in the processes and work to mitigate those. 

•    Help with reconciliation of statutory payments and reporting.  

 

Payroll Operations & Compliance 

•    Manage end-to-end payroll for assigned market(s), ensuring accurate, complaint, and timely processing. 

•    Partner with HR, Finance, payroll vendors, and local stakeholders to deliver high-quality payroll services. 

•    Perform payroll validations, variance analysis, and resolve discrepancies. 

•    Ensure compliance with local legislation, tax, social security, and internal governance requirements. 

•    Review and approve payroll outputs, reports, reconciliations, and related documentation. 

 

Subject Matter Expertise 

•    Act as a trusted advisor on payroll, taxation, social security, and benefits matters. 

•    Provide guidance on complex payroll topics, cross-entity payroll, tax corrections, social security, equity compensation, and international assignments. 

•    Support the resolution of complex employee and stakeholder queries. 

 

Statutory & Benefits Administration 

•    Administer payroll taxes, statutory deductions, social security contributions, and regulatory reporting. 

•    Manage payroll-related benefits, including pensions, insurance, and sick pay. 

•    Coordinate statutory filings, maintain audit-ready documentation, and ensure timely employee and third-party payments. 

 

Stakeholder Management 

•    Build strong relationships with payroll providers, authorities, auditors, and internal stakeholders. 

•    Collaborate with HR, Reward, Tax, Finance, and Legal teams on payroll-related matters. 

•    Support internal and external audits as needed. 

 

Continuous Improvement & Transformation 

•    Contribute to payroll transformation initiatives, system implementations, and process improvements. 

•    Drive efficiency, strengthen controls, and enhance the employee experience. 

The experience we're looking for

•    The UK payroll qualification (CIPP) is a strong plus but not mandatory.  

•    Strong knowledge of the UK payroll, employment tax, National Insurance, payroll compliance, tax corrections, and cross-entity payroll. 

•    Any experience in direct cooperation with HMRC is a strong plus.  

•    Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, HR, or a related field or equivalent experience.  

•    End-to-end payroll experience, ideally in a multinational environment.  

•    Experience working with payroll providers such as ADP, Strada, or similar.  

•    Proficiency in HRIS/payroll systems (e.g., SAP SuccessFactors, Workday) and advanced Excel skills.  

•    Fluent English.  

•    Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills, with a proactive, customer-focused approach. 

•    Ability to perform with minimal supervision and strong sense of ownership.

The skills for success

Data and Analytics, HR Process Improvement; Process management; HR Process improvement, Solutioning, Compensation & Benefits, Digital literacy, Operational Excellence, HR Data Analysis; Data management; Employee data 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.