Emea Payroll Specialist

1 day ago

Reading, United Kingdom Fortinet Full time

Position Summary:
Working in a small payroll team as part of the Finance department. The payroll team has overall responsibility for the gathering and collating of information from other departments including the process complex payroll items including RSUs and Stocks. Once reconciled, communicate accurate, compliant instructions to third party bureaus to ensure timely processing of multiple payrolls (circa 27 Countries and 2400+ people) for the EMEA region.

The EMEA Payroll Specialist must be professional and confident in working with individuals at all levels of the organization and external vendors and customers.

You will be required to perform against tight deadlines, must be highly confidential with sensitive information and demonstrate an ability to build and maintain relationships along with demonstrating solid written and oral communication skills.

Responsibility:

- Majority of time will be spent managing daily operations across various regional payrolls, ensuring consistent processes followed, any issues resolved, and all employees paid correctly and on time.
- Establish and maintain relationships with external payroll bureaus, including monitoring service levels.
- Prepare monthly payroll journals.
- Ensure payroll associated payments ie tax, pension etc. are approved and paid within the correct timeframes.
- RSU/Stock option processing.
- Ensure effective SOX compliance, including SAS 70/SSAE16 compliance where appropriate.
- Efficient handling of all payroll related queries.
- Assist with the preparation and submission of P11D and PSA reporting.
- Work with external and internal auditors, providing information as and when required.
- Provide support and cover for the other team members within the payroll department.

Qualifications:

- Significant and demonstrable knowledge of successful payroll processing.
- Experienced in foreign currency payrolls
- Experience of payroll journal booking and reconciliations.
- Demonstrated experience of identifying and implementing payroll process improvements.
- Solid organizational skills & ability to multi-task, time management skills.
- Successful management of vendors to achieve company goals.
- Knowledge of and experience working with SOX compliance.
- Previous related accounting support experience.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Intermediate Excel
- Confidential discrete & professional.
- Possess strong research skills.
- Customer service orientation.

LI - SR1

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