Payroll

• Manage a team of Global HR Specialists
• Establish operational workflows, set standard operating procedures
• Oversee the monthly end-to-end payroll operations executed by your team
• Serve as the authority on global payroll tax laws
• Maintain and optimize our automated HRIS-to-Payroll tech pipeline
• Audit and manage performance SLAs for global payroll providers
• Protect the company’s financial integrity by contributing to statutory audits

Global HR Ops, Payroll Manager

• Join SE First as a Payroll Specialist and take ownership of delivering seamless, end-to-end payroll across a dynamic and growing organisation.
• This role is at the heart of ensuring accuracy, compliance, and data integrity, while introducing strong controls that reduce risk and elevate payroll operations.
• With increasing scale and complexity, you’ll play a key role in shaping a consistent, auditable process and delivering an outstanding experience for every employee.

Payroll Specialist

• Deliver the full end-to-end payroll process accurately and on time.
• Produce accurate and timely payroll payments using the payroll management system.
• Process employee leave to ensure precise accountability of payroll exceptions.
• Professionally resolve payroll discrepancies and address employee queries.
• Identify and alert management of noncompliance or data quality issues.
• Organise and archive payroll documentation in line with company and regulatory guidelines.
• Administer employee benefits programs, managing enrolments, terminations, transfers, and changes.
• Support with confidential administration tasks related to payroll and benefits.

Payroll & Benefits Specialist – Fixed term contract

• Acting as the primary payroll compliance contact for GS UK entities and liaising with ADP to manage payroll processing, technical queries, issue resolution and escalations.
• Reviewing and validating payroll inputs and changes from HR, including starters, leavers, salary adjustments, commissions, benefits, pensions, statutory payments and terminations, while processing select technical adjustments in ADP.
• Ensuring accurate payroll treatment and compliance with PAYE, NIC, pensions, benefits and HMRC requirements, including monitoring submissions and supporting audits and compliance reviews.
• Supporting and strengthening payroll controls through reconciliations, payroll journals, variance analysis, cut-off governance and post-payroll reviews in collaboration with Finance.
• Driving and supporting payroll compliance initiatives and projects (including PSA, ERS, IR35, shadow payroll), process improvements, international payroll requirements, and onboarding of new GS UK entities while partnering with HR, Finance and external advisors.

Payroll Compliance Specialist

• Lead and manage global payroll operations team, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing across all regions.
• Oversee end-to-end payroll lifecycle including data validation, payroll execution, tax compliance, reporting, and issue resolution.
• Maintain and optimize for strong internal controls and governance frameworks for payroll operations.
• Partner cross-functionally with HR, Accounting, Finance, Legal, and external vendors to ensure alignment and operational effectiveness.
• Drive global payroll standardization and scalability initiatives across payroll providers, regions and entities.
• Leverage AI, automation tools, and emerging technologies to streamline payroll processes, provide real-time reporting and metrics, and reduce manual touchpoints.
• Continuously evaluate and improve payroll processes to increase efficiency, accuracy, and employee satisfaction.
• Oversee and own vendor management for payroll providers and ensure service level agreements are met.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and development opportunities to a global payroll team.
• Ensure compliance with global payroll regulations, tax laws, and statutory requirements.
• Lead payroll-related projects including system implementations, upgrades, and integrations.
• Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure payroll performance and identify improvement opportunities.

Director, Global Payroll Operations

• Ensure delivery of accurate, timely, and compliant payroll services
• Manage end-to-end payroll processing and complex calculations
• Maintain payroll records and system updates (Zellis)
• Administer payroll overpayment arrangements and handle queries

People & Payroll Specialist

• Manage the end-to-end payroll process for all employees, ensuring accuracy and compliance with UK legislation.
• Oversee the preparation, calculation, and distribution of monthly salaries, overtime, bonuses, pensions, and other benefits.
• Partner with benefits providers to manage benefit-related payroll processes, supporting a smooth employee experience and effective cost management.
• Responsible for timely and engaged communications with employees on all payroll related matters including benefits and incentives.
• Ensure compliance with PAYE, NI, pension auto-enrolment, and statutory payments (SSP, SMP, SPP, SAP).
• Act as the primary contact with HMRC and external auditors regarding payroll matters.
• Maintain payroll systems and ensure data integrity and security.
• Prepare and submit RTI (Real Time Information) and year-end returns (P60, P11D, P45, Gender Pay Gap report).
• Along with monthly management of P11D benefits and producing accurate payroll reports and analysis for Finance and HR.
• Manage relationships with payroll software providers and ensure systems remain fit-for-purpose.
• Engage directly with employees to resolve payroll queries, ensuring clear communication and excellent customer service.
• Strong knowledge of salary sacrifices schemes and implementation of pension salary sacrifice and similar programmes.
• Manage and create the People Monthly MI and Quarterly MI packs for the Head of HR and People Director, providing real time recommendations.

Payroll Manager

• Proactively support the payment of 15000 employees in an accurate and timely manner
• End-to-end running of payrolls and all associated activities
• Responsibility for the delivery of payroll metrics to agreed SLA’s
• Be a member of project teams to deliver corporate objectives
• Ensure that colleagues are paid in accordance with agreed timetables
• Act as a key contact for payroll queries and provide excellent customer service
• Provide timely, detailed feedback and updates to all queries and treat employees and stakeholders as customers of payroll services
• Look at current issues and make suggestions to resolve (and implement where possible)
• Make suggestions to ensure that end-to-end employee lifecycle processes impacting payroll are effective and result in an excellent customer experience

Payroll Administrator

• Resolve expert-categorised and escalated tickets, providing detailed and timely resolutions.
• Assist clients with complex payroll issues, including journal adjustments and manual overrides of employee variables.
• Conduct pre-payroll calls when necessary to identify and address discrepancies in advance of payroll runs and support smooth processing for Premium clients.
• Act as the primary point of contact for managed service queries, ensuring a high-quality customer experience.
• Provide a payroll and benefits audit service for customer accounts either during onboarding or as a ongoing service, reviewing data to identify discrepancies, ensure accuracy, and optimize the use of PayFit.
• Reconcile payroll and benefits information to proactively resolve issues and investigate and correct escalated pension errors.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of UK payroll legislation, ensuring compliance in all activities.
• Collaborate with the Product team before releases to ensure all client-facing documentation is accurate and of the highest standard.
• Act as the voice of the customer by providing detailed feedback on payroll functionalities and compliance needs.
• Create, maintain, and continuously improve internal training materials and knowledge content (e.g., Mayday, 360 Learning) to support team development and operational excellence.
• Lead or contribute to internal training sessions, supporting upskilling and consistent process enablement across the team.
• Regularly audit and optimise content to ensure accuracy, clarity, and effectiveness, including reviewing materials to improve AI-driven support and guidance tools.
• Detect, escalate, and assist in resolving incidents related to payroll errors or data issues. Partner with the Manager of Payroll Expertise to implement corrective actions and ensure timely communication to affected stakeholders.

Payroll Expert

• Manage the end-to-end in-house payroll process across relevant group entities and jurisdictions.
• Ensure payroll is processed accurately and within agreed deadlines.
• Validate and process payroll inputs including salary changes, overtime, bonuses, commission, statutory payments, deductions, benefits, and employee changes.
• Administer statutory payments including SSP, SMP, SPP, SAP, and ShPP in line with current legislation.
• Submit Real Time Information (RTI) filings, including Full Payment Submissions (FPS) and Employer Payment Summaries (EPS), accurately and on time.
• Administer PAYE, National Insurance contributions, student loan deductions, attachment of earnings orders, pension contributions, and other statutory deductions.
• Ensure accurate processing and payment of payroll liabilities including HMRC payments, PAYE, National Insurance contributions, pension contributions, and third-party deductions.
• Respond to HMRC correspondence and queries, including tax code notices, payment reconciliations, and compliance requests.
• Maintain compliance with current UK payroll legislation, HMRC requirements, National Minimum Wage regulations, and statutory obligations.
• Produce and reconcile payroll journals and support payroll-related balance sheet reconciliations.
• Manage payroll outputs and year-end processes including P60s, P45s, and other statutory reporting requirements.
• Support day-to-day treasury and banking activities across the group.
• Maintain accurate cash postings and ensure bank transactions are recorded promptly and accurately.
• Support daily and periodic cash reporting and short-term cash flow forecasting.
• Assist with banking reconciliations and treasury controls.
• Maintain robust reconciliations across payroll, cash, cards, and related balance sheet accounts.
• Support underwriter reconciliations, including commission and IPT balances where required.
• Investigate and resolve finance or payroll system discrepancies and posting errors.
• Support chargeback responses, customer refunds, and payment-related queries where applicable.
• Assist with month-end processes including accruals, prepayments, and other finance tasks.

Payroll and Treasury Manager

• Support the implementation of the Legion Time & Attendance system for HR and Payroll teams across the Michael Kors EMEA region.
• Focus on designing and delivering automated, secure, and compliant data flows between Legion and multiple payroll software platforms used by external payroll providers across 20 European countries.
• Collaborate closely with HR, Payroll, Retail Operations, IT, PMO, Legion, and external payroll vendors to ensure a scalable and future‑proof payroll integration model.
• Own the end‑to‑end flow of data from Legion into all payroll systems used across EMEA.
• Analyze and map Legion outputs to the input requirements of multiple payroll software solutions used by different providers.
• Define and implement automation solutions (APIs, secure file integrations, standardized interfaces) to enable payroll processing without manual data manipulation.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Michael Kors and external payroll providers on all matters related to Legion data integration.
• Coordinate payroll integration testing, parallel payroll runs, and go‑live activities country by country, ensuring thorough validation and issue resolution.
• Apply strong knowledge of European payroll rules, labor regulations, and local requirements to ensure accurate payroll data processing.
• Maintain detailed documentation of interfaces, data structures, data ownership assignments, validation rules, and country requirements.

Payroll & Time & Attendance Integration Manager – EMEA

• Own end-to-end payroll processing for a portfolio of complex hospitality clients across weekly, fortnightly, and monthly frequencies
• Handle tronc and non-tronc arrangements, NMW compliance, salary sacrifice, split shifts, unsocial hours, and variable pay
• Manage high volumes of starters and leavers across zero hours, casual, seasonal, and agency workers
• Process rota and time & attendance data, resolving discrepancies quickly and accurately
• Submit RTI filings, manage HMRC correspondence, and administer pension auto enrolment
• Support multi-site, multi-brand, and multi-entity payrolls, each with their own pay rules
• Advise clients on holiday pay, Working Time Regulations, and statutory payments
• Handle year-end processes: P60s, final submissions, and reconciliations
• Manage payment files via Bacstel and Caxton and operate IRIS Payroll Professional

Payroll Advisor, Hospitality

• Own compliance for your country or region
• Ensure local requirements are correctly interpreted, documented, and implemented across processes, systems, and customer workflows.
• Translate statutory rules, payroll logic, tax calculations, thresholds, and edge cases into structured requirements for Product and Engineering.
• Partner with Product Design to create user experiences that are compliant, intuitive, and auditable.
• Review specifications, test logic, and validate product outputs to ensure legislative accuracy.
• Own and deliver multi-country or high-risk audits from planning through remediation.
• Establish audit frameworks that scale across new and existing jurisdictions.
• Identify root causes and drive systemic improvements.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for compliance issues in your region, supporting Incident Managers to resolve incidents swiftly and effectively.
• Create clear, scalable, and documented processes for payroll compliance operations.
• Develop controls, SOPs, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure ongoing adherence.
• Build training materials, guidance, and rules documentation to upskill internal teams.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Customer Success to ensure compliance is embedded into decision-making.
• Support go-to-market, customer escalations and expansion initiatives with clear compliance guidance.

Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert

• Ensure monthly payroll is processed accurately and on time
• Input and validate payroll transactional data to ensure correct colleague payments
• Support the Payroll Supervisor with payroll audits and checks on data accuracy
• Carry out audit work on overtime and absence and provide findings to stakeholders
• Contribute to payroll communications with HR teams, stakeholders and staff
• Provide guidance on complex payroll queries and escalate issues when required
• Produce payroll data and insights to support business reporting and decision making
• Maintain HR and payroll data within Oracle Fusion in line with GDPR requirements
• Produce and distribute monthly payslips for GFSL colleagues
• Log payroll overpayments, calculate repayment amounts and agree recovery plans with employees

Payroll Advisor

• Lead and oversee end-to end global payroll processing across multiple regions in EMEA and AMER.
• Serve as the System Administrator for ADP Workforce Now, UKG One View, and Workday, ensuring continuous updates and maintenance.
• Ensure precise, compliant, and punctual processing of payroll for both domestic and international operations.
• May need to record transactions meticulously in the designated payroll bank accounts, covering payroll net pay and payroll taxes.
• Collaborate with third-party payroll providers, offering strategic guidance on business requirements and addressing payroll-related issues effectively.
• Maintain close communication with third-party payroll providers to guarantee timely fulfillment of monthly, quarterly, and annual payroll tax filings.
• Ensure adherence to all local statutory payroll regulations and fringe benefit reporting requirements.
• Uphold compliance with tax regulations, as well as wage and hour labor laws.
• Execute and oversee monthly payroll closing tasks.
• Lead special projects, such as process documentation and enhancements, system updates, integrations, upgrades, or implementations, including the re-implementation of international payroll systems.
• Assist with internal control policies, procedures, and compliance standards related to the payroll process.
• Delivering exceptional payroll support to all employees and cross-functional teams by promptly addressing inquiries, concerns, and requests with professionalism and accuracy.
• Identifying opportunities for process optimization and recommending scalable solutions to improve payroll operational efficiency without compromising accuracy.
• Conducting regular payroll audits and preparing comprehensive supporting schedules for external auditors to ensure compliance and accuracy in financial reporting.

Global Senior Payroll Analyst

• Provide expert advice and guidance on payroll queries, policies, and systems to managers and colleagues
• Process payroll data accurately and on time, meeting agreed Service Level Agreements
• Handle sensitive and confidential information with the highest level of discretion
• Monitor and track payroll activities, proactively resolving issues before they impact deadlines
• Support key activities such as end-of-year reporting, pay reviews, and HRIS updates

Payroll Management Partner

• Deliver accurate and timely payroll across the UK and all European payrolls, carrying out pre- and post-payroll checks, reconciliations and variance analysis.
• Own payroll calendars, cut-offs and inputs to ensure smooth month-end delivery.
• Work closely with external providers, support the bedding-in, optimisation and account management of ADP, including internal audits, validation and issue resolution.
• Manage pension schemes, including change processes, reporting, reenrolment and compliance duties.
• Act as a trusted partner for payroll queries from colleagues, managers and People Partners, managing our Payroll inbox and consistently responding to all email within 24 hours.
• Work closely with Finance on reconciliations, reporting and cost accuracy.
• Build strong partnerships with payroll providers, leading retros and addressing or escalating issues as needed.
• Ensure payroll processing complies with local statutory, tax and reporting requirements across jurisdictions.
• Support internal and external audits, maintaining clear documentation and controls.
• Lead on change projects ensuring a smooth transition (payrolled benefits in 2027 is one example you’ll drive at AVK).
• Support payroll setup and readiness for new sites and entities, including data mapping, processes and provider coordination.
• Help shape payroll processes that can scale as our European operations expand.
• Work closely with People and Finance on payroll implications of growth, change and new locations.

• End-to-end processing of monthly payrolls and fortnightly for diverse employee groups, including site and office-based teams.
• Support the rollout of new payroll systems including data migration, testing, and training.
• Collaborate with IT and finance teams to streamline payroll processes and reporting.
• P11D and Year-End Reporting.
• Prepare and submit P11D forms for employee benefits and expenses in line with HMRC guidelines.
• Assist with year-end processes including reconciliation, audit support and statutory reporting.
• Maintain comprehensive payroll records and documentation particularly relating to regulatory audits.
• Generate payroll reports and analytics to support finance and operational leadership.
• Ensure compliance with UK payroll legislation, HMRC reporting, and industry-specific pay practices (e.g. travel and subsistence, shift patterns).
• Collaborate with HR, Finance, and site managers during mobilisation and demobilisation phases of projects.

Payroll Officer

• Own end-to-end payroll processing for Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia, partnering with local payroll providers and leveraging ADP and Woffu to ensure accurate and timely payroll each cycle
• Conduct payroll audits and reconciliations to ensure data accuracy, compliance, and integrity across systems
• Manage statutory payroll filings in accordance with local regulations, including UK HMRC, Spain’s Seguridad Social, Ireland’s PRSA, and Australia’s Superannuation requirements
• Maintain accurate, audit-ready payroll records, including documentation of processes and controls
• Administer employee benefits programs across all regions, including health, pension/retirement, life insurance, and statutory benefits, ensuring compliance with local requirements
• Support annual benefits renewals, including coordination with vendors, employee communications, and system updates
• Manage relationships with local benefits brokers and vendors, serving as the primary operational contact for enrollments, renewals, and issue resolution
• Resolve payroll and benefits inquiries from employees and external partners in a timely, accurate, and professional manner
• Support onboarding and offboarding processes from a payroll and benefits perspective, ensuring accurate setup and timely processing
• Partner with Finance on payroll reconciliation, journal entries, and month-end close activities
• Collaborate with People Operations, Legal, and external vendors to ensure seamless payroll and benefits delivery across all regions
• Use AI and automation tools to identify opportunities for improving payroll and benefits processes, increasing efficiency, accuracy, and scalability
• Contribute to payroll system integrations and enhancements (e.g., ADP–Woffu), providing regional expertise and testing support
• Support payroll and benefits-related projects, process improvements, and scalability initiatives
• Stay current on international payroll and employment legislation changes and proactively communicate impacts to relevant stakeholders

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