EMEA Payroll Practitioner

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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Business Unit: Human Capital Group Industry: No Industry 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.

To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit

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 inclusion 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 working knowledge of local payroll tax withholding, social security, statutory…