Overview
Since being founded in 2018, Copper has been building the standard for institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody, collateral management, and prime services. Copper provides a comprehensive suite of custody, trading and settlement solutions designed to reduce counterparty risk and improve capital and operational efficiency in digital asset markets. Copper’s Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology underpins secure custody, enabling connections to centralised exchanges, DeFi applications and staking pools without assets leaving custody. Copper’s ClearLoop solution helps reduce counterparty risk with exchanges and enables customers to trade and settle directly from MPC-secured wallets, with settlement times reduced to a few milliseconds and without blockchain network dependency. Copper has strong insurance coverage and industry certifications, positioning it as a partner of choice for institutions.
Department Overview
People Team at Copper is responsible for unleashing the collective brilliance of its people by creating a healthy and productive workplace that attracts, engages, develops and retains great people.
Team Purpose
People Operations support and drive several key people functions, including people lifecycle administration, contracting, business support, people data analysis, process improvement, remuneration and benefits support, employee relations and wide scope of people related projects. The team plays a vital role in ensuring the well-being and satisfaction of our employees.
Role Purpose
The Payroll Lead will work as part of the People Operations team, delivering global payroll cycles, leading global payroll processes and payroll projects. Reporting to the Head of HR Operations, the Payroll Lead will also collaborate with Finance and Tax teams.
Key Responsibilities
* Managing end-to-end global payroll process in collaboration with payroll service providers for UK, US, UAE, EU, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Hong Kong.
* Working closely with the People Operations team to capture compensation-related changes, including onboarding and offboarding activities.
* Supporting annual payroll cycles as per the UK financial year, including HMRC and ONS submissions.
* Preparing payroll reports, making payroll submissions, conducting checks and obtaining approvals for Employer of Records payroll in various EU and Asia locations.
* Ensuring compliance with local payroll-related requirements. Proactively preparing time-sensitive payroll documents and working with payroll providers to ensure Copper remains compliant in regulated and non-regulated locations.
* Collaborating with the Finance team and engaging with employees to respond to pay-related queries.
* Managing UK Pension Scheme, enrolling and offboarding employees ensuring compliance with UK pensions regulations (Defined Contributions) and monthly submissions.
* Managing payroll-related projects and representing Copper before local labour departments, financial, tax and social security authorities.
* Collaborating with Total Rewards Manager on annual compensation cycles administration and ad hoc remuneration projects.
* Preparing monthly payroll-related journal entries for finance to post into the ERP system.
* Preparing monthly department-level breakdowns and variance analysis and forecasting for payroll-related P&L cost lines.
* Providing documentation and explanations for internal and external audits and ensuring payroll records are retained and accessible for audit purposes.
* Completing annual PSA calculation and submission to HMRC.
Essential
Your experience, skills and knowledge
* Experience in global payroll administration (UK, US, UAE, EU, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Hong Kong).
* Demonstrable research skills regarding global payroll administration.
* Demonstrate key technical abilities within the role.
* Experience in managing global payroll providers and systems, including Employer of Records.
* Sound knowledge of applicable employment law, finance and taxation regimes, rules and regulations.
* Fluent in English (written and verbal).
* Forensic attention to detail.
Desirable
Desirable
* Degree or professional equivalent in a relevant discipline, HR or Finance qualification desirable.
* Demonstrable research skills regarding forthcoming employment law, finance and taxation developments, assessing and determining the impact to the business.
* Other languages are an asset.
The Benefits Offered
* Paid Time Off - A minimum of 35 days of paid time off per year, inclusive of annual leave and public holidays. Employees also receive one additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
* Comprehensive Medical Insurance - Inclusive of dental, optical, audiology, and mental health coverage, with medical history disregarded
* Life Insurance
* Enhanced Pension Contributions - Includes an enhanced employer matching contribution
* 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. If you require any recruitment process assistance, please let us know and we will accommodate.
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