Junior Payroll Specialist; EMEA​/UK

Position: Junior Payroll Specialist (EMEA/UK)
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About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):
08  S&P Global Corporate

The Role:

The  Payroll Specialist  is part of a team of 5 that administers 33 payrolls in 18 countries in the EMEA region using Cloud Pay and ADP in an outsourced environment.
The Impact:  The EMEA region includes 18 countries, 33 payrolls and 2,100 employees.  The role is responsible for providing support for the outsourced vendor with respect to all payroll activities including payroll processing, tax requirements/filings, issue resolution, monthly, quarterly, and annual processes, systems requirements, verifications and controls, internal and external audits, and employee support.  The role encompasses supporting colleagues in all People COEs (i.e., People Partners, Total Rewards, Compensation and People Services), Finance and Accounting, Tax and Audit.

The Career Opportunity:  This dynamic and challenging role has the opportunity to learn the processing and calculation of new payrolls and the payroll requirements for our EMEA countries. There will also be an opportunity to gain experience of regional payroll implementations as part of the merger between SPGI and IHSM.

Work Location:

Ahmedabad
Responsibilities:
The payrolls are processed for the following countries:
Barbados, Belgium, Dubai, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and UK paying a total of 2,100+ employees.
Administer and support EMEA payroll operations, ensuring that all data has been processed accurately by the payroll provider.

Provide support to People Partners, People Service Centre, Compensation and Total Rewards functions to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time.

Ensure payroll processing is in accordance with payroll accounting requirements. Participate in GL account maintenance. Reconcile payroll accounts in collaboration with the Finance and business unit teams.

Maintain reconciliations of each of the payrolls ensuring that the payroll data is verified and checked against previous monthly data.

Provide support for all payroll tax reporting and filing requirements with the statutory authorities in the appropriate countries.

Ensures data integrity in all payroll systems

Provide support for timely and accurate reporting of all equity income in compliance with regional specific laws.

Support both Internal and External Audit with any audits and queries.

Ensure that all payrolls are compliant with audit procedures

Any other duties as necessary to the performance of the role.

Requirements:
1-3 Years of Payroll Experience.

Knowledge of Cloud Pay and ADP a plus

Workday exposure a plus

Extensive direct payroll experience in a large corporate environment

Experience operating in an outsourced payroll environment

Strong knowledge of EMEA payroll practices and requirements is a plus

Strong working knowledge of computer applications including Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Open to work in EMEA shift ( 2pm-11pm India time )

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