Lead Payroll Specialist

Global Payments; Leicester; Presencial; GBP 70.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Global Payments is seeking an experienced Lead Payroll Specialist to manage high-volume payroll across our corporate location and subsidiaries. You will process semi-monthly, biweekly and monthly payroll while ensuring accuracy of earnings, deductions and taxes.

You’ll supervise junior staff, implement best practices, and collaborate with HR and finance to support audits and reporting. Strong knowledge of payroll regulations and HRIS is essential.

Formación

• Must have strong knowledge of payroll processing.
• Experience with HRIS and timekeeping systems.
• Familiarity with state/federal payroll regulations and compliance.

Responsabilidades

• Process high-volume payroll for multiple locations and subsidiaries.
• Lead and train junior payroll staff and review work for accuracy.
• Ensure compliance with payroll taxes, garnishments, and deductions.

Conocimientos

Payroll processing

Leadership

Communication

Attention to detail

Educación

Bachelor's Degree in HR / Business / Finance

12 years payroll experience

Herramientas

HRIS

Time & Attendance

Descripción del empleo

Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for an experienced Lead Payroll Specialist to join our ever evolving payroll team and help shape the future of global commerce.

Summary of This Role

Processes high-volume payroll for corporate location and multiple subsidiaries on a semi-monthly, biweekly and/or monthly basis. Maintains, processes, and verifies employee time and attendance detail, manually processes miscellaneous payroll adjusting entries, processes garnishment, child support, and tax levy payments. Prepares, processes, and maintains various other payroll-related matters and employee benefits such as 401(k) and flexible spending accounts.

What You’ll Own

Administers payroll with a thorough understanding of hours worked, accruals, taxes, garnishments, etc. Ensures accuracy of each pay to employees by calculating earnings and deductions in accordance with established practices and guidelines; reviewing and validating the work of junior payroll administrator(s). Compiles data to process payroll by polling electronic time clocks, preparing computer input forms, and reviewing downloads for completeness and accuracy. Analyzes timekeeping reports for trends and follows up with management to ensure accurate account of hours to be paid. Provides information and prepares reports for various areas of the organization and managers, by compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, disability, and nontaxable wages, for funding, general ledger entry, trend analysis, tax reporting, and audit purposes. Performs data quality reviews in support of internal control requirements. Employs a comprehensive knowledge of State and Federal payroll tax laws, wage regulations, labor laws, and withholding order administration to provide assistance to team members with payroll and timekeeping related questions. Investigates and corrects payroll discrepancies and errors. Actively works to implement best practices and continuous improvement efforts to current processes. Utilizes Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) and timekeeping systems to update team member information, process payroll, gather data, and generate reports. Administers timekeeping system to remain compliant with time labor laws and company policies (I.e., different state overtime rules). Assists and oversees the training/activities of junior payroll administrators to ensure compliance with company and governmental policies and regulations for successful payroll processing.

What you’ll bring

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Typically Minimum 6+ Years Relevant Exp Payroll and HRIS knowledge
• Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance/Accounting
• Typically Minimum 8+ Years Relevant Exp
• 12 years relevant payroll experience
• Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC), or Certified Payroll Professional (CPP), or other relevant certification

What Are Your Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• As a highly skilled specialist, contributes to the development of concepts and techniques. Completes complex tasks in creative and effective ways. Ensures tasks of team are competed in a timely manner.
• Consistently works on complex assignments requiring some independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve issues. Makes recommendations for new procedures. Oversees a team and coordinates daily work covering multiple assignments.
• Determine methods and procedures on new assignments with some independence. Often acts as a facilitator for group. Is formal team leader.
• Excellent communication skills
• Microsoft Office; Human Resource Information Systems (Payroll, Time & Attendance)
• Ability to stay focused and organized with large amounts of data

About the team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do. Global Payments and Worldpay recently joined forces, and we’re currently operating across two Workday application systems. If you don’t see one of your applications here, it may have been submitted in the Worldpay Workday system instead.

Company Overview

At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone. And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises. Our team of 27,000 experts is dedicated to your success. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you. For more information, visit company.globalpayments.com and follow Global Payments on X, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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