Global Payroll Specialist

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Squarepoint Capital Full time
Job Title: EMEA Payroll Specialist

Squarepoint Capital is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets to achieve high-quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology, and operations, and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high-performance trading platforms to large-scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology, and operations teams functionally around the world.

Job Summary:

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.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Work with the global payroll team and partners with regional HR teams, global benefits team, and finance team to ensure accurate and timely processing of payrolls.
  • Ensure accuracy of payroll/benefits information by auditing payroll earnings, deductions, and HR spreadsheets.
  • Communicate data discrepancies to appropriate team members and third-party vendors and work with them to ensure corrections are made.
  • Submit input files to outsourced payroll vendors: BDO, Payescape, Safeguard.
  • Audit statutory reporting: P60, P11Ds, DNS, IRPF submissions and liaise with vendors on annual tax filing.
  • Calculate and pro-rate new hire & leavers' salaries and holiday pay.
  • Audit 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.
  • Ensure new hires, transfers, promotions, terminations, and all relative employee life cycle changes impacting payroll are accurately reflected on payroll registers.
  • Assist with employee payroll questions and concerns. Handle inquiries and complaints to ensure quick, equitable, and courteous resolution.
  • Assist in the development and documentation of global payroll policies and procedures.
  • Liaise with Global HR and Benefits teams regularly to ensure employee benefits are reflected on payrolls in a timely manner.
  • Maintain familiarity with payroll and tax laws, HR regulations, and other related legislation.
  • Prepare monthly/miscellaneous reporting for Finance and Human Resources.
  • Prepare compensation reports and statutory surveys - ONS filing.
  • Assist with payroll vendor transitions and data cleansing exercises.
  • Keep accurate compensation records of secondees and reconcile as required against journals.
  • Support payroll team in ad-hoc tasks, payroll processing globally, and any global projects.
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.


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