Payroll Analyst II (UK & Ireland)

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:

The Payroll Team work to a tight monthly schedule to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time and that all Statutory and other 3rd party payments are processed via the payroll vendor.

Under the direction of the Payroll Supervisor, the Payroll Specialist will possess the experience and commitment to support the payroll process covering multiple payrolls within the organisation. To be successful in this role you will have strong payroll processing knowledge and experience working with a 3rd party payroll vendor. You will understand the payroll processing steps to follow; from ensuring the correct inputs have been delivered per the payroll checklist to performing checks and validations on the payroll outputs.

Effective communication skills are required as you will be liaising with employees across the region and various internal teams such as Colleague Services, Finance, HR etc. Regular contact with the payroll vendor will also be part of this role. You will already have an understanding of local tax calculations. An ability to build knowledge on company policies regarding payroll processes, benefits and payments on the payrolls but will be required.

Key Responsibilities:

· Experience managing multiple payrolls in a time sensitive and fast-paced environment

· Demonstrated experience with the end-to-end payroll cycle in more than 1 payroll

· Demonstrated experience with benefits processing including pension regulations and company car to name a couple

· Partner directly with other payroll specialists and payroll vendor/provider and Colleague Services Centre to support employees

· Support investigations and analysis to determine the root cause of payroll challenges and communicate effectively to other parties such as employees, HR, HRTS etc.

· Work closely with management and Finance for payroll accounting entries, reports, and resolving discrepancies

· Ability to organize and prioritize work under tight time constraints

· Participate in improvement projects related to payroll processes

· Support internal control standards and self-audit processes related to all aspects of payroll

· Participate in business or functional projects as required.

· A desire to improve and initiate PPI processes.

· Driving continuous Process improvement using technology

Qualifications:

· Minimum of 2 years of overall Ireland or UK Payroll experience, preferably in a large multi-national company

· Demonstrated working knowledge of MS word, Excel, PowerPoint

· Ability to manage multiple payrolls concurrently

· Excellent oral and written communication skills

· Ability to clearly communicate with all levels of employees across the company related to payroll items

· Experience of working with Workday and other vendor systems such as ResourceLink, ADP, SAP would be advantageous

· Experience of using ServiceNow, not essential as training will be given.