Our client, is currently seeking a Payroll Finance Manager to join their team on a contract basis. This role is integral in managing and overseeing payroll accounting activities, ensuring the accurate recording, reconciliation, and reporting of payroll transactions in compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations, and internal controls.
Key Responsibilities:
Oversee end-to-end payroll financial processes to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll execution.
Review and map all country payrolls to GL accounts.
Review and approve payroll journals, accruals, provisions, and adjustments in accordance with accounting standards.
Ensure accurate posting of payroll expenses, taxes, benefits, and deductions to the general ledger.
Perform and approve monthly payroll balance sheet and expense reconciliations.
Manage the development and continual improvement of monthly reporting, including the speed, quality, and content of reporting.
Ensure compliance with labour laws, tax regulations, social security, pension, and other statutory requirements.
Review and approve statutory filings, payments, and payroll tax returns within regulatory deadlines.
Act as the key finance contact for payroll-related audits and regulatory inspections.
Establish and maintain strong payroll financial controls to prevent errors, fraud, and non-compliance.
Ensure segregation of duties between payroll processing, review, approval, and payment.
Lead payroll audit preparations and address audit findings and control gaps.
Job Requirements:
Professional Qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with relevant post qualification experience.
Graduate with a strong academic record.
Ability to identify issues, formulate solutions, and drive change, creating an environment for continuous improvement across the team.
High attention to detail.
Proven ability to digest and interpret accounting complexities.
Excellent decision-making skills.
Proactive and enquiring mindset.
Strong leadership skills: setting meaningful objectives, managing performance, and developing potential talent.
Manage own time effectively across various tasks and projects to deliver to deadlines.
Able to confidently communicate with both finance and non-finance contacts at various levels of seniority.
Intermediate to advanced MS Office Skills - including extensive knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
Experience of computerised accounting packages, ideally Agresso and TM1.
Team management experience.
If you are an experienced Payroll Finance Manager looking for a new challenge in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's team and contribute to their continued success