EMEA Payroll Specialist

June 26

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Description

• We are hiring an EMEA Payroll Specialist located in our London office reporting to the Payroll Manager. The role will be responsible for supporting the payroll processing for UK, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, France and Jersey.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration with a minimum of 3 years of global payroll experience • Experience with managing payroll vendors globally • International Payroll experience required • Intermediate Proficiency in Microsoft Excel • Experience with Workday preferred • Ability to juggle and manage multiple competing priorities and adjust priorities regularly • Proven success in building relationships across organizations and at all locations/levels • Ability to plan and manage multiple projects as well as strong organizational skills in a fast-paced environment • Ability to research information and analyze data to arrive at valid conclusions, recommendations, and plans of action • Must be able to foster a collaborative and teamwork environment

Benefits

• Works with the global payroll team, and partners with the regional HR teams, global benefits team, and the finance team to ensure accurate and timely processing of payrolls. • Ensures accuracy of payroll/benefits information by auditing payroll earnings, deductions and HR spreadsheets. • Communicates data discrepancies to appropriate team members and third-party vendors and works with them to ensure corrections are made. • Submits input files to outsourced payroll vendors: BDO, Payescape, Safeguard. • Audits statutory reporting: P60, P11Ds, DNS, IRPF submissions and liaises with vendors on annual tax filing. • Calculates and pro-rates new hire & leavers’ salaries and holiday pay. • Audits all new hire records in Workday and shared folders to confirm banking details, tax documents, work permits, personal information, etc. are completed fully and correctly. • Ensures new hires, transfers, promotions, terminations, and all relative employee life cycle changes impacting payroll are accurately reflected on payroll registers. • Assists with employee payroll questions and concerns. Handles inquiries and complaints to ensure quick, equitable and courteous resolution. • Assists in the development and documentation of global payroll policies and procedures. • Liaises with Global HR and Benefits teams regularly to ensure employee benefits are reflected on payrolls in a timely manner. • Maintains familiarity with payroll and tax laws, HR regulations and other related legislation. • Prepares monthly/miscellaneous reporting for Finance and Human Resources. • Prepares compensation reports and statutory surveys -ONS filing. • Assists with payroll vendor transitions and data cleansing exercises. • Keeps accurate compensation records of secondees and reconciles as required against journals. • Supports payroll team in ad-hoc tasks, payroll processing globally, and any global projects.