Regional Payroll Operations Consultant

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Location Overview:

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

The Team:

The Europe and Middle East (EMEA) Payroll Team is responsible for the delivery of pay services across the EMEA region. Reporting to the EMEA Payroll Manager, you will be part of the team ensuring accurate pay service delivery in addition to meeting our tax and legal obligations.

You will work closely with the individual pay delivery teams, as well as the Compensation, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Shared Services, Global Mobility and HR Leadership.

This is a challenging, yet rewarding role that requires exceptional communication, organisational and interpersonal skills to effectively solve complex tax and pay related issues and advise key stakeholders. The ability to understand and clearly communicate issues and provide solutions is critical to success, as are flexibility, ability to multi-task, and sold time management skills to ensure multiple deadlines are met. There is a requirement to proactively identify employee and firm level issues and work to mitigate these whilst understanding the wider implications.

Key Overview

Reporting into the EMEA Payroll Manager. This senior Payroll consultant will support the France Payroll Team lead/manager. The position will be based within our EMEA Payroll Operations group within GHR Shared Services.
Delivering regular oversight to our monthly pay process, enhancing the expertise in the team, looking for efficiencies help to directing our pay vendor to ensure delivery for team.
Contributing the overall goals of EMEA HR Shared Services
Building on our Partnerships
Working through the Strategy
Delivering to our employees stakeholders
Responsibilities:

Participate in the monthly pay cycle, working with fellow EMEA Pay consultants and our Pay Vendors.
Ensure the management and processing of the monthly payroll for the France entities, including benefits and taxes employees in compliance with French legislation.
Working with the EMEA/France Pay manager in maintaining regular vendor engagement to changes in the France payroll to ensure compliance and clarity to the employee.
Opportunity to actively participate in key Payroll deliverable projects.
Provide French Pay process support and guidance to all monthly pay BAU activities to the team. (Audit Requests, Post Audit Findings).
Working with Key Internal and External stakeholders, in the delivery of all monthly and annual reporting.
Finance Accounting Breaks – working with our Financial Governance Team to ensure balance sheet is clean/well reported.
Contribute and help guide ad-hoc queries from employees and/or GHR colleagues.
Ensure the adoption of risk and SOX controls are in place with continuous process improvement.
Liaise with Internal and External Audit as appropriate.
Identifying gaps and implementing processes; identifying areas for improvement and implementing efficient processes to enhance operations working with key stakeholders.
Required Skills:

European Payroll experience (Excl UK)
Strong knowledge of European payroll legislation and statutory obligations
Excellent Excel skills.
Strong PC skills, including proven ability to use numerous payroll software packages
Ability to work under own initiative to drive efficiencies and new ideas for a better working environment.
Excellent team player with the ability to build effective team relationships and promote an environment of trust and flexibility.
Ability to prioritise workload and manage numerous deadlines, in line with the various payroll deadlines.
Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to communicate with people from different levels of the organisation and across the different lines of business, as well as with external bodies.
Possess a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
Desirable

Previous banking experience or experience within a large corporation.
Understanding of payroll accounting and finance.
Wider Regional Payroll Experience.
French language skills. Read more