Job Title: Payroll Specialist
Contract Duration: 9 months
Work Arrangement: Remote – PST timezone
Summary
The Payroll Specialist is an experienced customer-focused finance professional who is results-oriented, has a successful record of delivering high-quality and timely results, and ability to work in a fast-paced and multi-tasking environment.
Responsibilities
- Ensure timely, accurate & compliant processing of payroll for the employee population (including but not limited to error resolution, processing validation, internal/external policy compliance & payroll accounting)
- Experience in payroll transitions to other PSPs is essential – involving parallel testing, reruns etc
- Manage the Outsourced Payroll Service Providers (PSP) to ensure all information is received/processed in a timely manner
- Check all payroll entries: new hires, terminations, wage changes, position changes, additional job assignment, status changes etc are correct and match to core reporting, expected accuracy of 100%
- Reconcile final output file/balance financials to core HR data and approve relevant reports
- Conducts research of complex issues/questions with minimal supervision
- Build Payroll Processes, Ensure adequate internal controls, Drive Efficiencies and Continuous Process Improvements
- Ensure Payroll Compliance (Payroll Taxes, Stock Based Compensation, Benefits, Tax and Statutory Audits, Internal Policies)
- Assist with auditing/processing of monthly payroll: error resolution, processing validation and policy compliance
- Support in the setup of new entities and integration of any M&A activities
- Join weekly, monthly & quarterly meetings to help drive continuous process improvement
- Regularly influences others within their team, peers in XFN teams, and building skills to influence XFN stakeholders at next level
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience with a large, fast-growing multi-national company
- Experience in local payrolls is essential
- Excellent team player who is very comfortable working as part of a larger team located in different locations
- Strong computer and analytical skills, including proficiency in Excel
- Detail oriented and maintain accuracy while performing multiple tasks
- Ability to engage in constructive, analytical problem solving
- Experience with Oracle HCM or SAP Payroll or similar ERP platforms
- Proven delivery of projects and process improvements
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant Payroll qualification (CIPP) or equivalent
- Six Sigma Training
Must Have Skills
- Really looking for someone on the 10 years side
- Workday payroll
- Process mapping, vios or lucid charts, documentation
- writing, SOP, procedures DDP
- Organized
- Sales force or another CRM program
Nice to Have Skills
- Microsoft skills, fast paced
- CPP good to have
- Big Tech, google and amazon, companies that pays more than 50,000 people
- Data Privacy
- Sox controls