French Payroll & HR Specialist
Northampton ( Hybrid working )
Monday – Friday 8-4 Or 9-5
£30,000 - £40,000 DOE
We have partnered with a global client who are looking for a French payroll specialist to join their team on a hybrid basis in Northampton. They are looking for someone that has exposure to a payroll department, ideally within a French market, and can speak the French language. You will be responsible for providing support and service to colleagues and third-party vendors.
Key Duties:
- In this role, you will manage payroll activities for France and Belgium, ensuring timely and accurate delivery, managing payroll quality and compliance
- Handle changes to payroll systems and ensure accurate monthly payroll submissions to external vendors.
- Investigate risk, and support HR Operations teams to complete tasks within SLA's
- Establishing relationships with key stakeholders, providing regular and timely service updates.
- Manage audits, update their internal HR portal, and ensure timely screening processes.
- You will also support on any ad-hoc HR projects, handle customer queries, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
- Produce documentation related to time management and monthly sign-offs, review and validate changes to employees' pay, and manage the process to recover monies and benefits from employees who have left or overpaid.
- Ensuring payroll controls and checks are completed on time, you will follow governance routines and perform timely reconciliations.
- Identifying continuous improvement opportunities and cooperating with third-party service providers.
The Ideal Candidate:
- French speaking highly desirable
- Understanding of and experience processing French payroll cycle and finance processes.
- Payroll or finance experience.
- Ability to handle any potential complex queries clearly and confidently.
- Ability to work under pressure, coordinate and prioritise activities, self-discipline and motivation.
- Able to multi-task under pressure whilst maintaining high quality delivery.
- Communication skills, with the ability to communicate to people at all levels both written and verbal.
- Close attention to detail and accuracy while working under pressure.
- Some other highly valued skills may include
- Experience in using HR applications and systems desirable