Internal Audit Assistant Manager

About Us

We’re Reckitt, home to the world’s best loved and trusted hygiene and health 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.

About Global Business Services

Behind our iconic power brands that touch millions of lives daily - from Dettol and Lysol to Durex and Nurofen - lies a dynamic and vital engine: Reckitt's Global Business Services (GBS).Fuelled by a culture of positive energy and co-creativity - while learning together - OneReckitt GBS is at the forefront of our business, driving efficiency, standardisation, and innovation across our global operations. We're a fast-paced, purposeful team, constantly seeking to optimise our processes, leverage cutting-edge technology, and deliver exceptional value to every corner of Reckitt. We’re not a traditional back-office function; we’re a strategic powerhouse where diverse individuals with bright minds come together to solve complex challenges, shape future capabilities, and build a better global business that directly helps achieve Reckitt’s mission.

About the role

As the Internal Audit Assistant Manager - Delivery, you will play a central role in executing high-quality audits across multiple business domains and markets. You will manage end-to-end delivery of audit engagements, ensuring consistent adoption of Internal Audit methodology, effective coordination with business stakeholders, and timely completion of audit activities.

Working closely with Audit Leaders, Domain Leads, and the COE Managers (Ops & QA, and Data Analytics & Innovation), you will help deliver impactful, insight-driven audits that strengthen governance, controls, and risk management across the organisation. This role is critical in ensuring that global audit plans are delivered efficiently, consistently, and to the highest standards.

Your responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end audit delivery, ensuring compliance with methodology, timelines, and quality standards.

• Coordinate audit planning, including scope validation, risk assessment, walkthroughs, and workplan development.

• Oversee fieldwork execution, ensuring robust testing, evidence quality, and supported conclusions.

• Provide guidance and coaching to audit team members throughout engagements.

• Serve as the primary liaison between audit teams, Domain Leads, and business stakeholders.

• Communicate audit issues, observations, and recommendations effectively to management.

• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across regions and functions.

• Support audit planning through risk assessment, resource allocation, and workload prioritization.

• Monitor audit progress, managing risks, dependencies, and delivery timelines.

• Ensure audit documentation and workpapers meet quality and methodology standards.

• Drive consistency in testing, reporting, and governance practices across audits.

• Identify opportunities to enhance audit efficiency, effectiveness, and value.

• Promote the use of analytics, automation, and digital tools within audit activities.

• Champion best practices, methodology improvements, and continuous innovation.

• Contribute to knowledge sharing, capability building, and development of standard audit approaches.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional certifications such as CIA, CA, CPA, or equivalent (preferred).
• 6-8 years of internal audit experience, ideally with exposure to multiple business domains or markets.
• Strong understanding of audit methodology, risk assessment, process evaluation, and control testing.
• Experience leading or coordinating audit engagements in a global or matrixed environment.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work under tight timelines.
• Familiarity with audit tools and data analytics platforms (Power BI, SQL, or similar) is preferred.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on problem-solving, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The skills for success

• Data Analytics & Insights
• Audit & Risk Management
• Data Extraction & Transformation
• Data Visualization & Reporting
• Data Governance & Quality Management
• Automation & Continuous Monitoring
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication & Data Storytelling
• Project & Delivery 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.