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Job summary

Legal & General is seeking a Global HR Payroll Innovation Manager for an 18-month contract to enhance payroll processes across multiple regions. This role involves compliance assurance, strategy implementation, and collaboration with HR, Finance, and Tax teams to innovate payroll and benefits systems. Strong communication skills and payroll experience are essential for improving employee satisfaction and productivity.

Benefits

Annual performance-related bonus plan
Generous pension contribution
Life assurance
Healthcare Plan for permanent employees
Holidays plus options to buy/sell
Electric car scheme
Discounts on products and stores
Redesigned office workspaces

Qualifications

  • Experience with payroll processing for international individuals.
  • Ability to establish robust processes and controls.
  • Understanding of stakeholder requirements in payroll.

Responsibilities

  • Lead payroll & benefits strategy/process design.
  • Ensure compliance with payroll regulations.
  • Manage domestic and shadow payrolls alongside global teams.

Skills

Communication
Attention to detail
Process management
Data analysis

Tools

Excel
Power BI
PowerPoint

Job description

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Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We've been safeguarding people's financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world's largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We're recruiting for a Global HR Payroll Innovation Manager to join us for an 18 month contract. You will ensure the efficient and compliant processing of payroll across various L&G regions. This role involves acting as the main link between L&G HR, Tax, Finance, and Payroll (both internal and external) processing teams with the aim to improve and redevelop the Payroll & Benefits process including technology development, future proof process improvements, creation of a longer-term global payroll strategy and roadmap & build of internal skills and capability.

The scope of this role includes managing domestic and shadow payrolls for the UK alongside internal global payroll teams.

What you'll be doing:

  • Leading on the design and implementation of the payroll & benefits strategy/process to ensure remediation & compliance across HR, Finance & external parties such as (with Group Tax support) HMRC
  • Implementing cost optimisation of payroll expenses improving employee satisfaction and productivity through leveraging automation and specialist outsourcing.
  • Ensuring well established, tightly controlled processes adhere to local, state, and federal laws and regulations related to payroll, taxes, and record-keeping
  • Establishing new processes and controls within L&G, with its tax advisors (and Group Tax) to ensure timely access to tax authority data through the use of local country portals and regular information updates
  • Updating / upskilling L&G payroll, HR and finance teams on enhanced processes and controls in the payroll systems and steps to reconcile data between L&G and tax authorities
  • Owning and managing of payroll/payroll technology related risks working with Risk Oversight teams, Supplier Management and Information Security and Group Tax
  • Producing regular MI to demonstrate the quality of customer outcomes being delivered and taking the appropriate action where this is not the case, including escalation to senior management and divisional risk teams
  • Managing, motivating and developing employees at all levels, in a manner that is consistent with the Company's policies and procedures to maximise the performance of the area

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

  • Good communication skills both verbal and written and ability to communicate with people at all levels
  • Ability to establish and maintain robust processes and controls
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to work with tools such as excel, Power BI and Power point to analyse data and display findings to communicate visually
  • Experience with payroll processing, controls and management for international individuals
  • Dealing with multiple payrolls including global and shadows
  • Understanding of different stakeholder requirements facing into payroll including HR, Finance and Tax
  • Previous international bureau payroll experience essential

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

  • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
  • Generous pension contribution
  • Life assurance
  • Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
  • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday
  • Competitive family leave
  • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
  • There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
  • In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn't matter if you don't meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.

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