EMEA Payroll Practitioner

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Overview Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With uniquely deep industry expertise, broad international reach, and a partnership approach rooted in trust, the firm provides innovative, integrated solutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals.

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Scope We are seeking an experienced, detail-oriented and highly organized Payroll Practitioner to ensure Houlihan Lokey’s payroll process is executed flawlessly and will scale with the growth of our business. This is an amazing opportunity to be a key contributor to the payroll team. This role reports into the EMEA Payroll Manager. The Payroll Practitioner will work closely with our Workday HRIS, Compensation, Human Resources Operations, Benefits, and International Payroll Vendor/Platform teams.

This is a hybrid working position which requires a minimum of 2-3 days working in one of our UK or Paris offices.

Responsibilities Payroll Administration & Operations Process monthly payrolls for assigned EMEA countries, such as France, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, ensuring strict adherence to unique country-specific cutoffs

Ensure accuracy of data in the Workday system for hew hires, job changes, salary changes and terminations

Coordinate, review, and administer monthly payrolls in collaboration with our outsourced vendor partners, PwC and Papaya Input and audit employee details, salary changes, overtime, leaves, bonuses, pension adjustments, and deductions into applicable payroll systems, including auditing gross to net calculations

Process all non-cash benefits received from the accounting team such as overtime meals and late-night taxi income monthly

Process all terminated employee prorated calculations and additional termination payments and holiday payouts

Coordinate funds distribution, process payments, and ensure timely wire transmissions to meet local payment deadlines

Prepare monthly general ledgers and payroll account reconciliation for select countries

Employee & Firm Support Be the first point of contact for assigned EMEA countries payroll related queries and correspondence

Respond to all employee queries submitted via the Company’s Service Now system daily

Review and resolve any individual queries within Service Level Agreement timeframe, escalating as needed

Process country specific on-boarding and employment documents from employees, insuring accurate coding in Workday, payroll deductions, and reporting

Collaborate and review employment certificate requests

Confidently explain unique salary proration, time off accruals, and maternity calculations

Compliance, Controls & Audit Consult with payroll bureaus, payroll providers, and firm HR legal to ensure payrolls are processed in accordance with current payroll legislation and collective bargaining agreements

Maintain an up-to-date understanding of country-specific payroll legislation, income tax, social security, statutory reporting, tax withholding, and benefit-in-kind requirements across assigned EMEA jurisdictions,Apply country-specific payroll tax legislation and statutory requirements, for example including but not limited to French Impôt sur le Revenu, cotisations sociales and DSN (Déclaration Sociale Nominative) requirements, and Italian IRPEF (Imposta sul Reddito delle Persone Fisiche), INPS and INAIL requirements

Maintain a…