• Support and own various European, Middle Eastern or African country payrolls as required
• Responsible for various payroll processing responsibilities, including but not limited to:
-- Gathering and processing inputs received from various stakeholders, including Global Mobility, Multi-Country, Compensation, Deferred Compensation, Recruiting teams and Managers, among others as necessary
-- Process new hires, terminations, transfers and validate payroll vendor calculations
-- Validate and audit payroll output reports received from payroll vendors, whilst ensuring all earning and deduction inputs have been appropriately captured (including those processed through automated data feeds to our vendors)
-- Reconcile gross pay between Workday and Payroll vendor output reports and investigate unbalanced items
-- Maintain appropriate checklists to ensure vendor and payroll follow agreed upon processes
-- Manage the payroll vendors timeliness and deliverables to achieve all requisite activities, including holding them accountable to their deliverables
• Complete post payroll tasks including liaising with our Compensation Accounting department on unreconciled clearing account items
• Arrange payroll disbursements to employees and tax authorities ensuring compliance with due dates
• Execute and comply with all Sarbanes Oxley (SoX) controls
• Coordinate and manage annual payroll deliverables
• Communicate with Tax authorities and other public offices regarding various tax queries
• Co-manage team mailbox for internal queries
• Respond and resolve employee queries through internal ticketing system
• Participate in monthly payroll reviews with vendors and ensure proper handling of issues and action items
• Suggest and help implement process improvements and best practices as appropriate
• Participate and deliver upon department payroll projects as required

What you need to have:

• Bachelors Degree, or similar to Accounting and Finance
• 2 -- 3 years relevant payroll experience in a similar role, including experience with high volume payrolls (i.e. 500+ employees)
• Good practical and theoretical knowledge of payroll
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, in an organized manner, and adhere to strict completion deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to work well as part of a team and excel in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment
• Strong analytical skills that enable candidate to recognize and resolve problems
• High proficiency with Microsoft Excel (i.e. Index Match / vlookup / Pivots / Power Query)
• Experience working with Workday is an advantage
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to interact with all levels of the organization
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent by experience
• Financial services and/or investment banking industry experience is preferable
• Experience within managing any EMEA country payroll and understanding the legislation of any EMEA country is an advantage
• Experience in working with payroll vendors and ICPs

Key Competencies

• A high level of attention to detail
• A positive and ‘can-do’ attitude
• Risk Management
• Teamwork including collaborating with remote team members
• Problem solving
• Desire and ability to provide outstanding service to internal clients
• Adaptability / Resilience
• Communicate with impact and excellent communication skills
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to identify, analyze and develop improvements to processes and/or procedures
• Discretion in dealing with confidential information
• Payroll project work

What we offer:

• Cafeteria
• Private healthcare contribution
• Voluntary pension fund contribution