Payroll Administrator - EMEA
Location: Manchester (hybrid working)
Job type: Permanent
In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:
Support Payroll team to:
- Ensure on-time 100% accurate monthly payroll for employees in countries within their remit across multiple legal entities.
- Ensure that statutory regulations and payments to third parties including regulatory and taxing bodies follow country law.
- Advise employees and internal stakeholders payroll queries.
- Support Payroll team to ensure robust operating procedures and controls for all transactions, providing sound audit procedures.
- Ensure timely, authorized input from a multitude of sources in a tight window to prepare and submit base salary, one time incentive, variable pay elements and life-change/benefit related actions to payroll vendor(s) in accordance with pay calendars.
- Review Net Salary calculations as part of pre-payroll validations.
- Ensure employee pay statements are accurate and distributed timely.
- Support payroll team to meet all regulatory, tax, compliance, internal and external filings, third party payments and reporting requirements on a monthly and annual basis for all payroll and employee benefits for all legal entities and country within remit.
- Ensure timely accurate post payroll reporting.
- Ensure robust operating procedures and document management practices are prepared, maintained, and followed.
- Support on Client Relationship meetings with country stakeholders in remit to review performance and track actionable items.
To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:
- Good organisational/prioritisation skills, working effectively to numerous deadlines.
- Experience of EMEA payrolls and benefits tax legislation and regulatory requirements
- Ability to train and cover on other EMEA country payrolls as required.
- Ability to proactively manage risk and implement/maintain effective controls in an ever-changing environment.
- Experience of working relationships with third party outsourced service providers/vendors.
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Highly proficient in Excel and data analysis tools
- Ability to work independently with limited day to day supervision.