Reckitt India
Reckitt India | Controls Assurance Assistant Manager, EM
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Job Highlights
Your responsibilities
- As a Controls Assurance Assistant Manager within the Global Internal Controls (GIC) organisation, you will play a critical role in driving Reckitt’s global controls transformation and assurance agenda.
- Based in our Centre of Excellence (COE) in Hyderabad, you will provide senior oversight across assurance delivery, analytical insight, and high‑quality execution of our global controls programme.
- You will collaborate closely with Regional Controls Teams, the Internal Testing Team, third‑party providers, and market stakeholders to deliver consistent control design, testing, remediation and reporting across Reckitt’s global operations.
- 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.
- Controls Transformation, Testing & Assurance.
- Partner with Regional Controls Teams to deliver controls transformation and assurance activities, including control design assessment, operational effectiveness testing, and remediation support.
- Coordinate with the Internal Testing Team and third-party providers to ensure timely, accurate delivery of the global testing plan.
- Perform quality reviews of Optro documentation to ensure alignment to global methodologies and consistent, high quality assurance outputs.
- Support targeted reviews and deep dive assessments, bringing an analytical lens to identify risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
- Monitor local control environment to ensure where change is made appropriate controls are in place.
- Perform controls testing to support the Internal Testing Team.
- Provide guidance and advice to market and functional stakeholders on internal controls, issue remediation, and control design improvements.
- Reporting, Analytics & Continuous Improvement.
- Manage the annual market self-assessment and controls declaration process; consolidate outputs and report status to GIC leadership and regional controllers.
- Support reporting of control results and insights via Power BI dashboards, including investigation of exceptions and validation of findings.
- Contribute to the evolution of the global control framework, including supporting automation and data-driven testing initiatives.
- Partner with IT 2nd line of defence to ensure IT aspects of control are integrated into the overall view of the effectiveness of the control environment.
- Provide supervisory oversight and coaching to analysts and testing resources, ensuring quality and capability development.
- Support embedding of global ways of working and strengthening the internal controls capability across the team.
- Collaborative and transparent ways of working.
- Manage the day-to-day operational aspects of delivery (and third parties) including review updates to control documentation to ensure updates to process flowcharts and controls are current and are aligned with internal control guidelines.
Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience in audit, internal controls, risk management, financial controls or a similar assurance environment.
- Strong understanding of internal controls frameworks (e.g., SOX/ICFR) and assurance methodologies.
- Experience with COSO framework and COBIT framework an advantage.
- Experience of supporting management teams in implementing controls; ideally experience with business transformation programmes.
- Effective and impactful communication skills with an ability to articulate complex concepts in concise language.
- Experience working with global teams and/or shared services/COE environments.
- Good working knowledge of Power BI, audit tools and Optro.
- Experience/awareness of Agentic AI applications would be a nice-to-have.
- Fluent spoken & written English and be able to communicate effectively in local languages.
About the company
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.
