Global Payroll Specialist: Scale Pay Worldwide

Thought Machine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Life insurance

Maternity leave

Parental leave

Cycle-to-work

Electric car scheme

Season ticket loan

Learning materials

Snack variety

Job summary

Thought Machine is seeking a Payroll Assistant to support the company’s payroll affairs globally, including the UK, APAC, EMEA and the Americas. This newly created role sits within the Finance team and reports to the Payroll Lead, helping scale payroll processes, reporting and compliance across group entities.

You will drive timely payroll deliverables, handle queries, coordinate with external providers and work with HR and accounting to ensure accurate payroll accounting and benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll processing across various countries.
• Attention to detail and accuracy key.
• Strong time management and organisational skills.
• Strong Excel skills required.
• Good understanding of controls and payroll best practices.
• Proactive and providing solutions to challenges that come up.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate payroll matters to HR, Finance and Employees.

Responsibilities

• Support global payroll process and controls with support from external payroll providers.
• Timely execution of payroll deliverables, payments and statutory reporting for all seven countries while ensuring compliance with local payroll legislation in different countries.
• Engaged in payroll implementations in the future and lead any process optimisation as necessary in partnership with HR.
• Work with the accounting team to ensure that payroll related spend is accounted for correctly and timely.
• Support or lead ad hoc projects as the team and business expands internationally.
• Respond to payroll related queries and support user accounts, resetting passwords.
• Ensure benefits are aligned with employees and providers and prevent leakage.
• Adhere to strict timelines for cut‑off and payroll scheduling.
• General administration of portals, user accounts, resetting passwords

Skills

Payroll processing

Attention to detail

Time management

Excel skills

Payroll controls

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Workday

Job description

Thought Machine is seeking a Payroll Assistant to support the company’s payroll affairs globally, including the UK, APAC, EMEA and the Americas. This newly created role sits within the Finance team and reports to the Payroll Lead, helping scale payroll processes, reporting and compliance across group entities.

You will drive timely payroll deliverables, handle queries, coordinate with external providers and work with HR and accounting to ensure accurate payroll accounting and benefits