Emeia Governance Compliance Specialist

At Burberry, we believe creativity opens spaces. Our purpose is to unlock the power of imagination to push boundaries and open new possibilities for our people, our customers and our communities. This is the core belief that has guided Burberry since it was founded in 1856 and is central to how we operate as a company today.

We aim to provide an environment for creative minds from different backgrounds to thrive, bringing a wide range of skills and experiences to everything we do. As a purposeful, values-driven brand, we are committed to being a force for good in the world as well, creating the next generation of sustainable luxury for customers, driving industry change and championing our communities.

**JOB PURPOSE**:
To act as governance lead and SME across the EMEIA payrolls.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Acts as custodian for data quality, pro-actively working to deploy controls, protocols, and frameworks to ensure that data transmitted to suppliers is of the highest standards
- Develop process controls and ways of working which promote timely and accurate delivery of data to suppliers
- Demonstrate innovation in helping to implement improvements across the team
- Partner with colleagues across the payroll team to ensure supplier compliance on payroll delivery
- Use data and analytics to effectively communicate with and influence stakeholders to elevate data quality standards across the time and pay landscapes
- Leverage reporting solutions to assist payroll team members with checking and assurance
- Demonstrate collaborative business partnering approach with immediate team members, colleagues and stakeholders across all departments to identify improvement opportunities to processes/controls, systems, ways of working, etc.
- Own the relationship with Finance on the accurate provision of general ledger information
- Control access levels to payroll data and reporting
- Help ensure data protection compliance across all areas of the team
- Use data and technology to focus on leveraging efficiencies
- Undertake purchase order and supplier payment processes
- Lead on the fulfilment of audit requirements and information requests from across the business and from third parties
- Manage the documentation of risk and works with colleagues to define and implement changes and implement mitigations
- Work closely with the Team Leader to monitor adherence to process controls in order to promote timely and accurate pay and the optimisation of the payroll delivery model
- Approach problems and challenges with enthusiasm and positivity, pro-actively exploring opportunities for improvement and inspiring team participation

**PERSONAL PROFILE**:

- Knowledge of payrolls across a number of Burberry markets including key/salient rules operating on collective bargaining agreements
- Prior experience of out-sourced models across multiple countries payrolls
- Ability to translate complex payroll matters and issues into easy-to-understand terms for colleagues outside of payroll
- Demonstrate solution-based approach - aim to understand what others try to achieve; exercise empathy to understand their challenges/difficulties and drive solutions
- Demonstrates a business partnering approach including working closely with stakeholders outside of the payroll function to understand business priorities
- Demonstrate strong partnership ethic and seamlessly engage with colleagues across all teams to positively pursue solutions and enhance colleague / customer experience
- Demonstrate continuous improvement approach to working practices with the aim of elevating colleague experience and implementing efficiencies