Payroll Specialist

3 weeks ago

London, UK, United Kingdom Gotham Technology Group Full time

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for ensuring accurate data is processed in Workday or the provider’s payroll processing system for the respective locations
  • Responsible for preparing various accounting papers, schedules, exhibits, and summaries for audit and compliance for designated locations
  • Conduct accounts reconciliation with support for the locations under purview
  • Responsible for adhering to the payroll calendar for designated locations and ensuring it is communicated to the employees
  • Responsible for working with the payroll provider and ensuring that labour and tax obligations are fulfilled and compliant
  • Work with the payroll provider to ensure payroll for the designated locations is delivered efficiently and effectively and as per agreed service level agreements
  • Respond to employee queries in Workday help regarding the payroll /payslips for designated locations within the agreed service level timelines
  • Prepare and maintain FAQ and knowledge articles for Workday Help for payroll and promote employee self-service for basic queries
  • Responsible for working with payroll providers to prepare the year-end reports and audit reports, as required
  • Responsible for ensuring all payroll changes are supported with the required documentation before being processed by the payroll provider
  • Work collaboratively with the Employee Support Centre to ensure payroll changes are entered before the payroll cut-off date and supporting documentation is fulfilled
  • Prepare monthly payroll documentation for signing-off by the Global payroll manager, highlighting the changes
  • Maintain the exception log, documenting retro payments and exceptional adjustments being made to payroll to accommodate special payments not aligned with organization guidelines

Key metrics

  • Service provider performance
  • Budget vs. Actual contract variance
  • Process improvement benefits

Key internal relationships

  • Employee Support Center
  • Finance
  • Compensation and Benefits Team

Key external relationships

  • Payroll Provider
  • Benefits Providers


Qualifications

Essential: Educated to degree level, ideally in a related area

Desirable: Professional qualification in procurement, facilities management, process improvement or similar

Experience

  • Prior experience successfully managing global payroll
  • Effectively manage work with efficiency in a fast-paced environment, troubleshoot and follow initiatives through to completion, with strict deadlines and without loss of attention to detail, budget and reporting
  • Some experience in continuous process improvement techniques


Competencies

Functional Competencies

  • Understanding of global payroll management principles
  • Good understanding of Workday payroll and other systems
  • Ability to work and manage and work with external payroll providers
  • Ability to conduct internal process audits, taking corrective actions
  • Good understanding of process improvement techniques
  • Ability to analyze big data sets and draw insights to inform management

Personal Competencies

  • Strong written, verbal, organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills; exercise good listening and communication skills with sensitivity to cultural communication differences
  • Effectively work as both a team leader and member, with an important level of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to set and meet goals
  • Pleasant, diplomatic manner and disposition in interacting with colleagues and the public, showing discretion and ability to handle confidential issues
  • Commitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism, and social justice
  • Commitment to listening and working with humility; ways of working that are respectful to all people and that support space and voice for all diverse perspectives in our workplace

Languages

  • An excellent knowledge of English
  • Knowledge of other languages would be an asset

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