Vice President, German Payroll Lead

BNY; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon is hiring a Germany Payroll Lead in Manchester, operating on a hybrid basis. You will oversee monthly payroll accuracy across entities and ensure regulatory compliance, working with HR and Finance to support tax and benefit provisions.

The role requires strong Excel and data analysis skills, fluency in English and knowledge of German payroll regulations. You will train and mentor junior staff and liaise with external payroll vendors.

Qualifications

• Experience leading payroll for multi-country entities.
• Strong knowledge of Germany payroll regulations and tax rules.
• Experience partnering with HR and Finance teams.
• Proficient in data extraction and reporting using Excel.

Responsibilities

• Ensure on-time, accurate monthly payroll for entities within remit.
• Ensure compliance with country regulations and third-party payments.
• Advise Country Managers on payroll tax and benefits matters.
• Ensure proper posting to GL and financial statements across entities.
• Maintain controls and procedures for payroll processing and audits.
• Coordinate input for base salary, incentives, and benefit actions with payroll vendors.
• Review net salary calculations and issue pay statements timely.
• Respond to employee payroll inquiries and liaison with HR/Finance.
• Meet all regulatory filings and reporting requirements monthly and annually.
• Provide data to Finance for reconciliations.
• Document procedures to comply with policies and authorities.
• Lead client meetings with country stakeholders to review performance.

Skills

Payroll leadership

Germany payroll

Tax legislation

Vendor management

Excel

Data analysis

English (fluent)

German (pref.)

Tools

Payroll software

Job description

Job Description

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Germany Payroll Lead to join our HR Team. This role is located in Manchester, Hybrid.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Ensures on-time 100% accurate monthly payroll for employees in countries within their remit across multiple legal entities
• Ensures that statutory regulations and payments to third parties including regulatory and taxing bodies follow country law.
• Advises Country Managers and Senior HR Business Partners on all tax matters related to payroll and benefit provisioning within their remit.
• Ensures that Salary and Wages associated with all payroll and benefit related payments are accurate and properly posted to the correct General Ledger Accounts and ultimately to the P&L and Balance Sheets for multiple legal entities within the country of their remit.Works closely with the Country Financial Controllers.
• Ensures robust operating procedures and controls are in place for all transactions that feed ultimately into payroll to ensure compliance to internal and external audit and regulatory bodies.
• Ensure timely, authorized input from a multitude of sources in a tight window to prepare and submit base salary, one time incentive, variable pay elements and life-change/benefit related actions to payroll vendor(s) in accordance with pay calendars.
• Review Net Salary calculations as part of pre-payroll validations.
• Ensure employee pay statements are accurate and distributed timely.
• Receive research and respond to all employee related enquiries. Liaise with the HR and Finance teams.
• Meet all regulatory, tax, compliance, internal and external filings, third party payments and reporting requirements on a monthly and annual basis for all payroll and employee benefits for all legal entities and country within remit.
• Ensure timely accurate reporting of all financials tied to payroll processing, providing appropriate data to Finance to enable their reconciliations.
• Ensure robust operating procedures and document management practices are prepared, maintained and followed for all functions to comply with corporate policies, tax authorities, bank authorities and other statutory agencies within remit
• Leading Client Relationship meetings with country stakeholders in remit to review performance and track actionable items.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Good organisational/prioritisation skills, working effectively to numerous deadlines
• Experience of Germany payroll and benefits tax legislation and regulatory requirements
• Ability to train and cover other EMEA country payroll as required
• Ability to proactively manage risk and implement/maintain effective controls in an ever-changing environment
• Experience of managing and building effective working relationships with third party outsourced service providers/vendors
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English (mandatory) and German (preferrable)
• Ability to develop and train more junior staff on payroll skills and requirements if and when required
• Highly proficient in Excel and data analysis tools
• Ability to work independently with limited day to day supervision

This CF role will be subject to your ongoing compliance, to our satisfaction, with the Central Bank’s fitness and probity standards and any other applicable requirements relevant to your role.

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