Emea Payroll Specialist

1 month ago

Watford, United Kingdom Bio-Rad Laboratories Full time

Overview:
This role will be responsible for the analysis, execution and support of payroll operations with utmost confidentiality of employee records and business information of our EMEA Payroll Finance Shared Services organization. Key role that supports over 8,000 employees in 37 countries. The position will also play a key role in expansion initiatives including supporting the implementation of 3rd party vendors to ensure payroll accuracy and compliance in multiple countries.

**Responsibilities**:

- Preparing global payroll data for payroll processing by third party payroll administration partners ensuring accurate and timely processing of the company’s payrolls
- Executing day-to-day data entry, data corrections, mass upload etc.
- Verify timekeeping records and consult managers/employees about any discrepancies
- Run remote and calculate off-cycle pay checks
- Performing audits and validations of payroll transactions
- Payroll issues are escalated and resolved with root cause analysis and corrective action for all levels of employees and management, with a focus on ensuring a positive and seamless employee experience in partnership with HR Shared Services. This role is responsible for day-to-day oversight for issues and positive seamless
- Ensure timely preparation, processing, maintenance and appropriate distribution of payroll information, payroll reports, all tax year end reports, payroll manuals and related payroll working instructions.
- Identify and drive continuous performance improvement projects to improve payroll accuracy, compliance, productivity and / or employee satisfaction
- Ensure end-to-end processes are well-thought out to address customer and regulatory requirements.
- Adhere and recommend best practices, key performance indicators and SLA metrics for department.
- Monitoring changing business, regulatory and financial requirements
- Adherence to approved SLAs
- Perform payroll execution in accordance with all company, country, federal, state, local and other applicable compliance requirements
- Supporting Payroll Shared Services Team & Manager with execution of day-to-day duties.
- Participate in ongoing vendor internal process improvement.

Qualifications:
**Knowledge & Skills**

Proactive, pay attention to details, motivated, results oriented individual capable of partnering with diverse perspectives and backgrounds to negotiate positive outcomes that impact the work of internal, external, and cross-functional partners

Capable of contributing to setting team goals, measuring success, and communicating achievements. Measured on individual and team goals

Demonstrated focus on providing an excellent employee experience

Comfortable in a fast-paced, complex, and highly matrixed environment

Strong process redesign and/or efficiency

Innovative and able to think both analytically and conceptually

Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to confidently present complex information to all levels of the organization are required

Fluent (both orally and in writing) in English and another Major European Language is a plus like French/German/Spanish or Italian

**Education**

Bachelor’s degree

A relevant qualification or accreditation with a professional body for Payroll

Experience

At least 4-5 years of experience in payroll administration preferably in shared services center environment

Multi-national companies experience, especially for with Payroll EMEA

Experience working in systems such as SAP, SuccessFactors, ADP Celergo & ADP Global View, ADP E-Time and Microsoft Office Suite

Payroll system implementation - data validation and data analysis

Implementation of Payroll Internal Controls and Procedures

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