Payroll Specialist - European Region

Job Description:

JD for Payroll Specialist

Designation: Payroll Specialist

Employment Type: Full Time

Reports To: People Operations Lead

Location: Bangalore- Koramangala

Experience: 8 - 10 yrs. of experience

Scope: A smart candidate who has analytical and grasping ability. Someone with good communication skills, good energy levels, passion to take challenges and be able to set & achieve high standards in deliverables. The person will be responsible for working in end to end payroll for European countries.

Detailed roles & responsibilities:

Payroll Processing:

- Managing end to end payroll for European countries along with the UK Payroll.

- Payroll data preparation, collecting payroll inputs from various stakeholders, sending payroll inputs to payroll providers.

- Manage and process multi-country payroll operations which include expat and shadow payrolls.

- Check and reconcile payroll reports verifying monthly compensation, allowances and deductions and any other related items.

- Ensuring payroll controls and other internal controls are in place to ensure 100% accuracy in the deliverables.

- Should have knowledge in time & attendance, validating the time card reports and sharing the inputs to payroll partners.

- Calculating and processing statutory leave such as Maternity pay, Paternity pay, Sick pay, Adoption Pay etc. and ensure that payouts are processed as per the policies .

- Should have knowledge of European countries' taxations.

- Managing the monthly MIS reports for various countries in a timely and accurate manner.

- Manage relationships with country payroll partners to ensure timely and accurate payments, making recommendations for and implementing process improvements.

- Deal effectively and professionally with issues, queries, complaints and ensure that queries are dealt promptly.

- Payroll vendor transition will be an added advantage.

- Support payroll transition for different countries.

Compliance:

- Should be aware of the European countries' labour laws related to payroll.

- Manage country's statutory payments in a timely manner in coordination with Finance/Payroll Partner and other key stakeholders.

- Responsible for the internal and external audits for European countries.

- Should have knowledge of European countries Social Security funds.

Other requirements:

- Should have good communication skills.

- Should possess a high level of integrity considering the kind of data handled.

- Should be well versed with MS Excel, Google Spreadsheets.

- Should be conversant with payroll management and have an eye for detail

- Should be ware of the GDPR compliance

- Should be aware of Workday

- European languages like Spanish or German will be value-added.