Global Payroll Lead, Abrdn
Savings & investment company
Job no longer available
Savings & investment company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Helping clients to prepare for the future
Role
Who you are
- Experience working in a global organisation, with financial services experience preferred
- Proven experience in global payroll, managing payroll across multiple countries and regions
- Expertise with HR tools and technology such as Workday and HR analytics tools
- Proven experience with Workday Payroll, particularly for UK payroll operations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with high attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders at all levels
- Subject matter expertise in global payroll processing and best practices
What the job involves
- As the Global Payroll Lead, you will report to the Head of Global Payroll and play a strategic, hands-on role in ensuring the successful planning, execution, and delivery of our global payroll
- Ou will oversee payroll operations across multiple regions, managing compliance, risk, and continuous improvement activities
- You will also contribute to maintaining high standards in payroll performance, enhancing controls, and ensuring timely and accurate payments for all colleagues
- Ensure business-as-usual payroll operations, meeting regional pay dates for colleagues
- Engage with stakeholders across geographies to ensure processes, governance, and designs are effective and fit for purpose
- Monitor payroll data standards, KPIs, and SLAs, driving improvements globally and locally
- Contribute to developing and enhancing the controls and risk management framework for global payroll processes
- Ensure compliance with payroll laws and reporting requirements in each deployment country
- Undertake quality assurance processes to maintain the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of payroll data
- Identify and mitigate risks related to payroll deployments, escalating issues when necessary
- Develop and maintain payroll metrics and analytics to provide insights on performance, costs, and trends
- Authorise payroll-related payments and balance sheet funding movements as per approval matrices
- Operate in line with service governance requirements, ensuring adequate documentation for continuous payroll delivery
- Ensure full compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and risk management frameworks
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Abrdn, formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen, is a global investment company helping its clients to save and invest for their futures. It operates three businesses - Investments, Adviser and Personal - and has been operating since way back in 1825.
Nowadays, atop its investment and advice services, the company delivers two platforms for financial advisers. The first, Wrap, enables users to build and manage portfolios for each client. It also includes SIPP drawdown capabilities - which means advisers can choose the best platform charges when client assets are at their highest. The second, Elevate, encompasses a suite of tools for advisers to save time and make sure their clients are informed.
In 2023, Abrdn announced "adviserOS", which represents an upgrade to their platform offerings. There is limited information to go on, but the company claims this new venture will be simpler and data-led, as well as require less admin. It will be interesting to see if this new release keeps pace with tech developments across the investment space and allows abrdn to continue as an innovator.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company HQ
Edinburgh New Town, Edinburgh, UK
Leadership
Jason Windsor
(CEO)Previously CFO at Persimmon Homes, Group CFO at Aviva and was the Managing Director of Morgan Stanley.
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