Global Payroll Lead - London, United Kingdom - Thought Machine

Thought Machine

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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General information:

Job Title
Global Payroll Lead
City
London
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Division
Finance
Department
Finance

Description:

Thought Machine's mission is bold
to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking and built core and payments technology which runs natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.

We have grown rapidly in the past few years - growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore and Sydney.

We have raised more than $500m in funding and are now valued at $2.7bn. Our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase, Standard Chartered, and more.

We have created a culture enabling our team to produce the best work in the industry, ensuring we have fun along the way.

We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the most generous employee share package in the industry.

We've been named AltFi's B2B Fintech of the Year, placed in the FinTech50, and named one of Europe's fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times in 2023.Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the Group Payroll Lead will drive the management of the company's payroll affairs globally, covering the UK, APAC, EMEA and North/South America entities.

This newly created role will work with finance and non-finance teams with support from external payroll advisors to drive the highest standards of payroll.

This role will play an integral part in scaling the payroll processes and procedures of a fast-growing business.

This is an opportunity to make an impact as a qualified payroll professional who thrives on delivering on projects and being responsible for providing best-in-class payroll process, reporting and compliance through the group companies.

DUTIES

Lead the global payroll process and controls with support from external payroll providers
Lead the timely execution of payroll deliverables, payments and statutory reporting for all entities across the world while ensuring compliance with local payroll legislation in different countries
Working with the finance systems team towards higher payroll standards, leading any payroll system implementations in the future and leading any payroll process optimisation as necessary in partnership with HR
Work with the FP&A team to provide insights on payroll related spend and prepare the analysis as necessary
Work with the accounting team to ensure that payroll related spend is accounted for correctly and timely
Support or lead ad hoc projects as the team and business expands internationally

Requirements:

Essential

Proven experience in multicountry payroll management
Qualified payroll professional with a solid understanding of controls and payroll best practices
Being driven and with the ability to balance multiple priorities at any time
Excellent skills in problemsolving and project management involving key stakeholders and advisors.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate payroll matters to finance and nonfinance teams

Desirable

Proven experience working within a group environment
Industry experience (fastgrowing technology company is a plus)
Payroll systems implementation is a plus

Benefits:

Highly competitive salary
Pension plan (match up to 7%)
Life insurance three times annual salary
Competitive maternity (6 months fully paid) and paternity leave (4 week fully paid)
Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
25 days holiday and bank holidays
Private health insurance with Bupa for you and your family
Health cash plan (including dental and optical)
Flexible working hours
Cycletowork scheme
Electric car scheme
Season ticket loan
Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
All the latest tech you need
Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
Huge range of healthy (and notsohealthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
An environment where we encourage learning and progress
Two charity days a year
Weekly food pop up