Reckitt India | Assistant Manager - Payroll

Responsibilities

• Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams.
• 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.
• 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.
• You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.
• 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.
• Own and oversee end-to-end payroll activities for your assigned market(s), ensuring payroll is processed accurately, compliantly, and on schedule.
• Partner closely with local stakeholders, payroll vendors, HR teams, and Finance to ensure seamless payroll service delivery.
• Perform detailed payroll validation and variance analysis, identifying, investigating, and resolving discrepancies to maintain the highest levels of payroll accuracy.
• Ensure all payroll activities are fully compliant with local legislation, tax regulations, social security requirements, and internal governance standards.
• Prepare, review, and approve payroll outputs, reports, reconciliations, and related documentation.
• Support the resolution of complex employee and stakeholder queries.
• Ensure the accurate administration and reporting of payroll taxes, statutory deductions, social security contributions, and other regulatory obligations.
• Coordinate the submission of statutory filings and maintain complete audit-ready documentation.
• Oversee payroll calendars and payment schedules to ensure timely execution of employee and third-party payments.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external payroll providers, government authorities, auditors, and other key stakeholders.
• Collaborate effectively with HR, Reward, Tax, Finance, and Legal teams to ensure alignment on payroll-related matters.
• Support internal and external audits by providing payroll expertise, documentation, and remediation actions where required.
• Contribute to payroll transformation projects, including system implementations, integrations, and process redesign initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, strengthen governance, and enhance the employee experience.
• Collaborative team player with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert on payroll, taxation, social security, and benefits-related matters.
• Provide guidance on complex payroll scenarios, including: 30% ruling administration, Cross-entity payroll arrangements, Tax year corrections and retroactive adjustments, Social security implications, Equity compensation programs, International assignments and mobility-related payroll matters
• Manage company benefits and related payroll components, including insurance premiums, pensions, sick pay, and other employee entitlements.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Dutch payroll, wage tax, social security, payroll compliance, 30% ruling, tax year corrections, and cross-entity payroll.
• Minimum 4 years of payroll experience, including end-to-end payroll ownership.
• Experience working with payroll providers such as ADP, Strada, or similar.
• Proven experience in multinational payroll environments.
• Proficiency in HRIS/payroll systems (e.g., SAP SuccessFactors, Workday) and advanced Excel skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent in English, with Dutch language skills considered a strong advantage.

Reckitt

The business now called Reckitt traces back to Reckitt & Sons, set up in Hull, England, in 1840, whose first product was laundry starch. The present group took shape in 1999, when Reckitt & Colman merged with the Dutch company Benckiser. Reckitt Benckiser Group plc is listed in London and has its registered office in Slough. Its health and hygiene brands include Dettol, Harpic, Lysol, Finish, Durex, Strepsils and Nurofen. In India it operates as Reckitt Benckiser (India) Private Ltd., registered in Gurugram, and it also runs the Reckitt Global Hub in Hyderabad, which handles IT, people, finance, supply and internal audit work for the group worldwide.

Most of Reckitt's finance hiring in India happens at the Hyderabad hub. Recent openings cover record-to-report and commercial accounting, payroll and global payroll projects, internal audit (including data analytics, operations and quality assurance audits), and SAP finance and controlling roles in the IT&D team. Postings often ask for a degree in finance, accounting or a related field, and several name CA, CMA, CPA, CWA, ACCA or MBA (Finance); the audit roles add CIA, CISA or CFE as preferred certifications.

• Industry: Consumer health and hygiene products: disinfectants, household cleaning, pain relief, cold and flu remedies, sexual wellbeing
• Headquarters: Slough, United Kingdom (Reckitt Benckiser Group plc)
• In India: Reckitt Benckiser (India) Private Ltd., with its registered office in Gurugram, and the Reckitt Global Hub in Hyderabad (Raidurgam), home to group IT&D, people services, finance services, supply and internal audit teams