Global Payroll Lead, Aberdeen
Savings & investment company
Job no longer available
Savings & investment company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable its clients to be better investors.
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
Aberdeen, formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen and Abrdn, 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. The second, Elevate, encompasses a suite of tools for advisers to save time and make sure their clients are informed.
Over the years, the company has continued to improve its offering, for example by making it simpler, more data-led and to require less admin. This suggests that Aberdeen is keen to keep pace with tech developments across the investment space and position itself as an innovator.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Salary sacrifice pension arrangement
- Private health insurance
- Life Assurance
- 40 days holiday if you work full time
- Dental insurance
- Health assessments
- Critical illness cover
- Will writing
- Power of attorney
- Financial Guidance and Advice
- Holiday buy
- Discounted gym memberships
- Cycle to work
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Electric car lease scheme
- Travel insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Share Plans
- Give As You Earn (GAYE)
- Volunteering
- Long service awards
- Subscription to Interactive Investor
- Subscription to Finimize
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Supportive parental leave policies , delivered regionally (e.g. 26 weeks paid leave in UK for primary and secondary caregivers)
- Employee discount site
- Discounted parking
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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