Emea Payroll Specialist - Watford, United Kingdom - Bio-Rad Laboratories

Bio-Rad Laboratories

Verified Company

Watford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview:

This role will be responsible for the analysis, execution and support of payroll operations with utmost confidentiality of employee records and business information of our EMEA Payroll Finance Shared Services organization.

Key role that supports over 8,000 employees in 37 countries.

The position will also play a key role in expansion initiatives including supporting the implementation of 3rd party vendors to ensure payroll accuracy and compliance in multiple countries.

Responsibilities:

Preparing global payroll data for payroll processing by third party payroll administration partners ensuring accurate and timely processing of the company's payrolls
Executing daytoday data entry, data corrections, mass upload etc.
Verify timekeeping records and consult managers/employees about any discrepancies
Run remote and calculate offcycle pay checks
Performing audits and validations of payroll transactions
Payroll issues are escalated and resolved with root cause analysis and corrective action for all levels of employees and management, with a focus on ensuring a positive and seamless employee experience in partnership with HR Shared Services. This role is responsible for daytoday oversight for issues and positive seamless
Ensure timely preparation, processing, maintenance and appropriate distribution of payroll information, payroll reports, all tax year end reports, payroll manuals and related payroll working instructions.
Identify and drive continuous performance improvement projects to improve payroll accuracy, compliance, productivity and / or employee satisfaction
Ensure endtoend processes are wellthought out to address customer and regulatory requirements.
Adhere and recommend best practices, key performance indicators and SLA metrics for department.
Monitoring changing business, regulatory and financial requirements
Adherence to approved SLAs
Perform payroll execution in accordance with all company, country, federal, state, local and other applicable compliance requirements
Supporting Payroll Shared Services Team & Manager with execution of daytoday duties.
Participate in ongoing vendor internal process improvement.

Qualifications:

Knowledge & Skills
Proactive, pay attention to details, motivated, results oriented individual capable of partnering with diverse perspectives and backgrounds to negotiate positive outcomes that impact the work of internal, external, and cross-functional partners

Capable of contributing to setting team goals, measuring success, and communicating achievements. Measured on individual and team goals

Demonstrated focus on providing an excellent employee experience

Comfortable in a fast-paced, complex, and highly matrixed environment

Strong process redesign and/or efficiency

Innovative and able to think both analytically and conceptually

Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to confidently present complex information to all levels of the organization are required

Fluent (both orally and in writing) in English and another Major European Language is a plus like French/German/Spanish or Italian

Education
Bachelor's degree

A relevant qualification or accreditation with a professional body for Payroll

Experience

At least 4-5 years of experience in payroll administration preferably in shared services center environment

Multi-national companies experience, especially for with Payroll EMEA

Experience working in systems such as SAP, SuccessFactors, ADP Celergo & ADP Global View, ADP E-Time and Microsoft Office Suite

Payroll system implementation - data validation and data analysis

Implementation of Payroll Internal Controls and Procedures