Regional Payroll and Benefits Analyst

Payroll and Benefits Analyst – Remote – Salary £35,900 Background

Charles Taylor is a global leading provider of professional services to the insurance industry. We are a profitable, growing organisation that is highly regarded in the insurance industry as a top-tier provider of professional services, employing some of the industry’s ‘best in class’ professionals and technical experts. Our delivery of high quality, individually tailored services to our clients is backed by our core values of excellence, partnership, quality, and support, and we look for employees to join us who exemplify these values and our ethos.

As part of a finance improvement programme, we are in the process of transforming our global payroll to standardise processes, improve controls and enhance reporting through a cloud-based SaaS solution integrated with Microsoft Dynamics365 Human Resources software. We have appointed a single party payroll administrator under a master contract with local payroll in each region governed under that master contract.

The Role

This role will support the implementing and executing of the regional payrolls within the Payroll & Benefits COE. It requires strong technical payroll knowledge, experience and understanding of payroll administration.

The role reports directly to the Regional Payroll & Benefits Lead – UK & EMEA and sits within the Payroll, Benefit and Reward team within HR, and will work closely with HR Ops, HR Business Partners, and Finance in the delivery of payroll and benefits activities.

The successful applicant could work remotely within the UK for the majority of the time. However, occasional trips to our London office may be needed to foster teamwork and participate in any trainings, if needed.

Key Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the payroll and benefit changes preparation utilising PowerBi driven changes from D365, and adhoc manual changes for processing. This includes payroll preparation, processing, validation / variance checking and query administration, in line with local in country legislation and business policy.
• To assist in the preparation of data for annual benefit renewals and ensure that data held by the providers is kept up to date in accordance with statutory requirements.
• To learn and assist with multi-country payroll processing, mainly UK but other regions such as Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, UAE.
• To assist in ensuring that the scheduled payments are made to the pension providers/ authorities / local governments in respect of employees’ in accordance with statutory requirements.
• To ensure that relevant statutory and legal obligations applicable to payroll and pension matters are complied with and adhere to internal and external deadlines.
• To ensure that all required documentation such as SOPs, checklists, and country guides are initially created and maintained.
• To keep all records in connection with payments made and to respond to authorised individuals in respect of payroll queries.
• To assist the Regional Lead in continuously reviewing the payroll and benefits processes and changes to identify improvement opportunities and system and process control weaknesses. Then implement actions to improve or to rectify control related problems.
• To answer all queries related to payroll and benefit matters from employees, Human Resources, third parties and providers (e.g. pension companies, insurers etc.).
• Implementation data management, to include new M&A, transfers, vendor changes and optimisation projects within your regional payrolls, whilst working closely with the Regional Lead for direction.
• To act as cover in the absence of other allocated Regional Payroll Analyst.

Required Skills

• Strong technical understanding of payroll, benefits and taxes.
• Attention to details and proactive.
• Strong communication (written and verbal), interpersonal, and influencing skills.
• Proactive, agile, analytical and solution orientated.
• Ability to work independently, and coordinate multiple workstreams through planning, prioritising, and multi-tasking in a fast paced, ever-changing environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of HR, Benefits, and Payroll interfaces and the upstream and downstream impacts.

Why join Charles Taylor?

We are very proud of the fact that nine out of ten of our people recommend Charles Taylor as a place to work. We pride ourselves on having a positive work environment where our people are empowered to make the best decisions and where learning is valued highly and shared across our business.

We are very committed to ensuring our people are given continuous learning and development. As well as structured induction programmes and job training, we provide study support for relevant professional qualifications and have a Core Learning and Development Curriculum.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Here at Charles Taylor, we are proud to be an Inclusive Employer. We provide an environment of mutual respect with zero tolerance to discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

Our external partnerships and the dedicated work we do in promoting a transparent and fair recruitment and selection process all contribute to the successful, inclusive, and diverse culture and environment which we are proud to be a part of at Charles Taylor.