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About The Role
We’re seeking a seasoned share plans professional to join our dedicated team at Reckitt. Operating a diverse portfolio of discretionary and all-employee share plan programmes across more than 60 countries, we play a pivotal role in delivering long-term incentives globally. In this established role, you'll help oversee and manage the day-to-day operations of our share plans, ensuring they remain effective, compliant, and engaging for our people.
Your responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of our share plan programs (“Share Plans”).
- Manage the day-to-day operations of our Share Plans.
- Manage the share plan lifecycles including the granting and vesting processes across our global population.
- Liaise with external advisers to ensure compliance with specific country tax and regulatory requirements, and individual employee tax matters.
- Approve option exercises and release of share awards as applicable and ensure that tax withholding processes in respect of participants’ withholdings are correctly managed.
- Review of all relevant share plan documentation and communications and ensure that it is issued in a timely manner.
- Stakeholder management of our external vendors including internal management of our share plans portal alongside our share plans administrators and trustee.
- Manage compliance with internal share ownership guidelines for senior colleagues.
- Preparation and submission of Share Plan annual tax returns.
- Review of headroom calculations as required.
- Assist senior management with understanding and processing of Share Plan transactions.
- Liaise with team members and other internal stakeholders in relation to Annual Report and subsidiary company Share Plan related disclosures and quarterly and year-end financial/IFRS reporting.
- Liaise with team members in relation to PDMR announcements as appropriate.
- Assist as required with ad-hoc projects related to shares and Share Plans.
- Assist in the training and development of our Share Plans Assistant.
The experience we're looking for
- Experience of working within a listed company environment.
- Extensive knowledge of employee Share Plans and how they operate in practice, including dividend management, nominee services and tax withholding as appropriate.
- Experience of working with third party vendors such as share plan administrators and lawyers.
- Understanding of regulations and global equity tax issues.
- Experience building employee share incentive education programs and communication materials.
- IT proficient, highly numerate and competent in wording with Microsoft Excel and other relevant software as applicable.
- Confident working with senior management and handling highly confidential data.
- Good inter-personal, organisational and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to work well as part of a team and to use own initiative.
- Flexible with the ability to prioritise work from multiple sources and work well under pressure.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Good communication skills, able to liaise confidently at all levels and act with discretion.
The skills for success
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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.
