Associate Payroll Consultant

The key responsibilities of the role include;

• Perform daily payroll activities to ensure production of assigned payrolls including complex and year-end activities.
• Review adjustment requests to ensure compliance with corporate policies, employment tax & payroll laws.
• Advise management of appropriate corrective action if an error occurs.
• Record monthly payroll metrics
• Respond to employee queries to explain pay and impact of policies, tax law and related changes.
• Analyse existing policies & procedures to ensure compliance with tax & payroll-related laws and regulations.
• Recommend and implement modifications of existing payroll processes, in compliance with laws and regulations.
• Work with vendors and review payroll applications to ensure changes are correctly reflected on the payroll.
• Participate in system testing, payroll implementations, process improvements & payroll projects.
• Prepare payroll tax and general ledger accounts/activities; liaise with finance to reconcile discrepancies.
• Process or advice on appropriate accounting transactions to balance accounts.
• Research and monitor regulatory and legislative changes impacting payroll areas of responsibility.
• Performs vendor management activities to ensure adherence to corporate vendor management standards.
• Serves a key subject matter expert and coach/ train junior team members.
• Review team members work; including but not limited to review of payroll input and manual calculations.
• Acquire knowledge of other team members’ payroll activities and perform back up support.
• Represent the department in various meetings.

Skills/ Qualifications:

The successful candidate will benefit from having:

• Several years of payroll experience, EMEA payroll experience is desirable
• Experience with payroll processing including; payroll production, reconciliation, General Ledger
• Experience with Workday is an advantage
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to meet strict deadlines
• Ability to multi-task in a high paced environment