Reckitt India | Internal Audit Manager - Ops and Quality Assurance

Your responsibilities

• As the Internal Audit Manager – Operations & Quality Assurance within Reckitt’s Global Internal Audit Centre of Excellence, you will play a critical leadership role in shaping best‑in‑class audit delivery, strengthening methodology, and driving continuous improvement across the global audit function.
• You will directly manage a diverse team of audit delivery, data analytics, and IT&D professionals, building capability and embedding progressive ways of working.
• You will also collaborate closely with Audit Leaders and Domain Leads to enhance execution quality, drive operational excellence, and contribute to the digital enablement of the audit function.
• 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.
• Oversee day-to-day Internal Audit operations, ensuring effective planning, resourcing, and delivery.
• Maintain and enhance audit methodologies, templates, standards, and governance processes.
• Support annual audit planning, resource management, portfolio oversight, and performance reporting.
• Develop dashboards and reporting to monitor audit progress, quality, and operational metrics.
• Partner with Data Analytics teams to drive digital enablement and operational efficiency.
• Lead the Quality Assurance & Improvement Program, ensuring compliance with audit methodology and standards.
• Conduct quality reviews and provide feedback to strengthen audit effectiveness and consistency.
• Support external assessments and continuous improvement initiatives across the audit function.
• Analyze quality trends, root causes, and performance insights to drive improvement actions.
• Lead, coach, and develop audit, data analytics, and IT&D team members within the COE.
• Support onboarding, training, capability building, and professional development programs.
• Partner with Audit Leaders, Domain Leads, and stakeholders to ensure consistent audit delivery.
• Communicate operational insights, QA outcomes, and recommendations to senior management.
• Support management and audit committee reporting with relevant performance and quality metrics.
• Drive adoption of analytics, automation, digital tools, and innovative audit practices.
• Contribute to initiatives that enhance audit effectiveness, efficiency, and overall value delivery.
• Reporting to the Head of the COE, you will oversee global audit operations, lead the function’s Quality Assurance programme, and ensure consistent application of audit standards, practices, and tools.
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Audit & Risk Management

Requirements

• 8–12 years of Internal Audit experience, with strong exposure to operational audits and audit quality reviews.
• Demonstrated experience in global or matrixed organisations, ideally within FMCG/Consumer Health or comparable industries.
• Strong understanding of IIA Standards, audit methodology, risk assessment, process evaluation, and quality principles.
• Proven ability to lead teams, coach others, and foster a high‑performance culture.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across diverse geographies.
• Comfortable working with ERP systems (SAP/JDE) and analytics/visualisation tools (Power BI desirable).

Reckitt India

Reckitt India is an employer hiring in India. In its own words: "Home to the world's most loved and trusted hygiene, health and nutrition brands."

CA Samaaj lists Reckitt India's current India openings for finance, accounts, audit and tax professionals, taken from its official careers site (careers.reckitt.com) and checked regularly to remove closed jobs. Recent roles are based in Hyderabad.