Payroll Specialist

Salary: £45,600 – £48,000 per year

We have partnered with this international trading and technology company that has built some of the fastest, most sophisticated electronic trading platforms in the world, and who are looking for an EMEA Payroll Specialist with European Payroll experience to work on a Hybrid basis

Responsibilities

• Performing end-to-end processing of monthly multi-country payrolls (UK, France, Germany, Israel, Netherlands) including scheduling and timelines, collection of information, analysis, input, reconciliation, funding, and follow-up
• Keeping abreast of changing payroll and benefits laws in country and providing actionable deliverables to the Global Head and regional teams
• Completing and auditing tax filings as required by government and provide to employees
• Producing payroll and compensation reports as scheduled for various departments and assisting with participation in special surveys
• Managing the general ledger reporting process and preparing, auditing, and delivering files to Accounting
• Owning the Payroll and Benefits email inbox, and being the first point of contact to assist employees with daily questions
• Coordinating with HR for onboarding, offboarding, and maintaining the relevant systems for electronic personnel and compensation data
• Owning the annual benefits renewal and enrollment process, and liaising with vendors to resolve employee benefit matters and maintain data integrity
• Preparing and distributing time sensitive benefits notices
• Collecting and processing new hire documentation and maintaining employee files to ensure compliance
• Supporting the Americas Payroll and Benefits team by auditing the completed payroll and participating in quarterly cross-processing as part of the disaster recovery plan
• Preparing monthly benefits reports for 3rd party insurers, and auditing/processing monthly invoices (Cycle-to-Work, Pension, Meals, etc.)
• Reviewing benefits carrier connection uploads and investigating any errors
• Maintaining internal and external data in our Org, HRIS, and compensation systems, as well as managing full-cycle leave of absences for individuals and keeping key HR team members abreast of changes in leave of absence status

Qualifications

• Previous HR experience in Payroll and Benefits
• The ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive matters and respond effectively to such situations
• Strong communication skills
• Strong PC skills (MS Office) and knowledge of any well-known payroll and benefits systems
• The ability to learn and understand new software and applications quickly
• The ability to execute processes and scheduled tasks with little supervision

Salary – 50k-60k

Bonus – Discretionary but usually around 20-30%. This very much depends on firm and individual performance

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