Global Payroll Specialist

CE Back Office; Lethbridge; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a Global Payroll Specialist at a fast-growing consultancy. This role involves managing end-to-end payroll for clients across Europe and the Middle East, ensuring compliance with payroll regulations, and supporting the payroll team. You'll leverage your strong mathematics skills and payroll knowledge to handle queries, prepare reports, and complete annual payroll tasks. Join a supportive and collaborative culture where you can grow and learn while working with market-leading HR technology. If you're ready to step up in your payroll career, this is the perfect chance to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Strong mathematics skills and ability to carry out manual payroll calculations.
• Ability to process payroll from end to end including year-end procedures.

Responsibilities

• Manage payroll inbox and respond to queries from HR and employees.
• Prepare payroll imports and ensure payroll compliance.

Skills

Mathematics skills

Manual payroll calculations

Excel proficiency

Strong communication skills

Payroll qualification

Experience with IRIS Payroll Professional

Education

Relevant payroll qualification

Tools

IRIS Payroll Professional

Excel

Job description

Location: Hybrid or Remote

Salary: Dependant on experience.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Global Payroll Specialist to join our team in South Cheshire supporting clients in Europe and Middle East. The role will suit an experienced payroll specialist or someone with strong payroll administration experience looking to step up into a payroll specialist role. This is a fast-paced role managing the end-to-end payroll of multiple client payrolls. You will be working alongside the wider payroll team at CE Global Partners providing support to team members where required. This is a full-time position although part-time hours would be considered.

Job Purpose:

• To manage payroll inbox and respond to queries from HR, Managers, Employees, Third Party Suppliers.
• Prepare payroll imports and changes on time and upload them to the payroll system.
• To review payroll data including manual checks, NMW compliance, and prepare sign-off reports.
• Prepare and upload third-party reports.
• To ensure payroll compliance.
• To complete annual payroll tasks including year-end processing, P11D submissions, and PSA reporting.
• Generating reports as required.
• Recognise and suggest ideas for clients in ways that can help support their staff or business where appropriate.

Knowledge:

• Understand and complete manual payroll calculations.
• Payroll regulations including ITEPTA, Pension regulations, WTR, and AWR.
• Data Protection, NMW.
• Knowledge of and calculations of statutory payments.
• Understand and administer employee benefits and expenses.
• Understanding of termination and redundancy payments along with effective management of earnings for NI and Tax purposes.
• Understanding of pension schemes including salary sacrifice schemes.
• Understanding of Directors NI.
• Understanding of SIP schemes and LTIPs.

You will require the following skills:

• Strong mathematics skills and the ability to carry out manual payroll calculations.
• Ability to run manual payroll calculations to include tax, NIC, student loans, and pension deductions.
• Ability to process payroll from end to end including year-end procedures.
• Ability to use Excel including use of formulas including v look-ups and pivot tables.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ideally, hold a relevant payroll qualification.
• Experience of IRIS Payroll Professional is an advantage but not essential as full training will be given.

About CE Global Partners

CE Global Partners are a successful and fast-growing consultancy, who specialise in client-side support to enable and deliver HR and payroll transformations globally enabled by market leading technology. We work across multiple industries, sectors and technologies to help our global clients prepare, deliver and optimise their transformation. We typically implement market leading HR technology such as Oracle HCM, Workday, Ceridian or SAP SuccessFactors for global organisations. Working within the CE team you will learn, grow and progress in a culture that is supportive and collaborative whilst using best in class methods.