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Payroll Analyst
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Payroll Analyst (9 months temporary assignment)
📍 London with hybrid working
💷 £270-300p/d
🏢 Financial Services
A leading global organisation is seeking an experienced Payroll Analyst to join its HR Payroll team in London.
This is an excellent opportunity for a payroll professional with strong end-to-end payroll experience who thrives in a fast-paced, regulated environment and enjoys working closely with HR, Finance, Benefits, and Global Mobility teams.
Duties Include:
- Support the delivery of accurate and timely monthly payroll processing across the full employee life cycle, including starters, leavers, transfers, and family leave.
- Process payroll changes and ensure payroll data is maintained accurately within payroll and HR systems - ADP IHCM & Workday.
- Manage payroll accounting activities, including general ledger processing, reconciliations, and internal account movements.
- Work closely with HR Shared Services, Benefits, and Global Mobility teams to ensure payroll changes are processed effectively.
- Support expatriate payroll processes and international mobility payroll activities.
- Reconcile pension and benefit deductions and assist with monthly reporting requirements.
- Respond to employee payroll queries, providing a high standard of customer service.
- Support internal and external audits and contribute to payroll controls and compliance activities.
- Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls, and efficiencies.
- Assist with payroll documentation, process mapping, and continuous improvement initiatives.
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You Will Have:
- Strong end-to-end UK payroll processing experience.
- Experience working within a fast-paced corporate environment, ideally Financial Services.
- Must have knowledge of ADP iHCM and Workday.
- Payroll accounting and reconciliation experience.
- Strong Excel skills - vlookups and pivot tables.
- Excellent attention to detail and numerical ability.
- Knowledge of payroll legislation, tax, and statutory payments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
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