Payroll Administrator

Payroll Administrator

Location: Manchester (hybrid working)

Job type: Permanent

Salary: up to £37900

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.