Payroll Specialist, UK&I - Westville at CHEP

Job Description

• Payroll Specialist for the United Kingdom and Ireland
• Remote Working Opportunity from South Africa

Position Purpose

• Working as part of the EMEA Payroll team. Working with the third-party providers, processing all payrolls for United Kingdom and Ireland, for all entities across the Brambles group. Working with business stakeholders to ensure that the payroll meets with their requirements and that all employees are paid accurately and on time.

Key Responsibilities

• Day-to-day payroll administration on managed service and outsourced platforms
• Meeting all day-to-day statutory and business compliance requirements
• Investigate and correct any errors in the case of system or process issues
• Preparing monthly payrolls according to schedule, preparing documentation to support monthly approval by Payroll Lead/Manager, accurately and on time
• Management of statutory reporting and payments, including statistics and year end
• Ensuring that segregation of duties and data protection standards are met
• Vendor management, including integration of new systems and vendors
• Working with internal and external audit teams to ensure that systems and processes meet best practice
• Compensation & Benefit Administration relating to Payroll, including Ex-Pats, Share Plan and Stock Options
• Supporting process and systems consolidation of different entity payrolls to one location and platform

Qualifications / Experience

• Experience of processing multi country payrolls and working to deadlines required.
• Experience in running payrolls including year-end processing required
• MS Office Intermediate (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
• Workday HR (An advantage but not compulsory)
• UKI Tax and Statutory Rules, including year-end desirable
• Business acumen (knowledge of each business and how to navigate to get things done)
• Attention to detail Working with remote locations
• Ex-Pat Payroll desirable
• Stock Option Management desirable.

Preferred Education

• Diploma – Accounting

Preferred Level of Work Experience

• 5 – 7 years