Payroll Officer, Gentrack
Cleantech solutions for utilities
Open for applications
Cleantech solutions for utilities
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide leading utilities across the world with innovative cleantech solutions.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 5 years payroll experience in United Kingdom running in-house payroll
- Excellent understanding of statutory requirements and payroll legislations
- Exposure to ESOP pay-out and related payroll compliances
- Problem solving ability, analytical, numeracy and excellent reconciliation skills
- Intermediate-Advanced knowledge in MS Excel including creating pivot tables, v-look ups and any other necessary functions
- Basic understanding of accounting concepts in relation to payroll and reconciliation of payroll accounts, as well as exposure working with foreign currencies and cost centres
- Ability to manage assigned tasks and relationships with stakeholders across different time zones
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to manage the demands of a rapidly evolving environment
- A passion for excellence and a commitment to be the best
- Sound judgement and determination to achieve with a sense of urgency
- Excellent relationship management and interpersonal skills
- An open-minded consultative approach
- Ability to give and receive positive and constructive feedback
- Ability to creatively solve problems
What the job involves
- This is a truly exciting time to join Gentrack with a clear growth strategy and a world class leadership team working to fulfil Gentrack’s global aspirations by having the most talented people, an inspiring culture, and a technology first, people centric business
- As the Payroll Officer EMEA reporting to the Group Finance Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing the payroll function for the Northern Hemisphere
- Effectively partnering with key stakeholders such as the People Experience team to ensure excellent levels of accuracy. Beyond operational tasks, you will drive change management, and focus on continuous improvement to enhance overall efficiency within the payroll function
- Directly manage payroll for the northern atmosphere ensuring:
- Employee data is correctly loaded, maintained and always up to date in the payroll systems and all relevant information is provided to third party payroll providers on time
- High degree of accuracy is maintained for earnings and deductions for each individual employee, to ensure all staff details for the pay run are accurate and complete
- All pay runs are completed within set deadlines with sufficient time given for review, adjustments, and processing
- Adequate and timely reporting is provided to the business and third parties, as required
- Monthly accounting for payroll is completed accurately and within monthly deadlines, including posting of pay run journals, leave liabilities accrual, payroll cost variance analysis and balance sheet reconciliations
- Effectively partner with third-party payroll providers and payroll contractors, to ensure accurate processing of each pay run, and ongoing monitoring and improvement of shared processes
- Effectively partner with the People Experience team regarding key strategic deliverables such as year-end pay review and gender pay reporting as well as ensuring accuracy of employees’ data on regular basis
- Manage compliance of any payroll related tax filings, including but not limited to PSA and P11D, and any other payroll related obligations
- Perform regular checks on payroll data and drive payroll process improvements locally as well as globally ensuring consistency where possible
- Provide backup and assistance to the wider finance team as required
- Be a trusted advisor to the leadership team regarding the payroll function
- Be responsive to the internal business queries in a reasonable timeframe
- Effectively partner with the Payroll Officer for the southern hemisphere to ensure coverage of payroll and global consistency
- In addition to this you are required to carry out any other duties as reasonably requested by your manager
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Gentrack provides customer relationship management and billing software solutions to the utilities industry. In particular, it focuses on providing modern, 'cleantech' solutions - an approach which allows its clients to benefit from both increased efficiency and greater sustainability. As world industries set ambitious net zero carbon targets in response to a mounting climate crisis, Gentrack has found its services consistently in demand since its founding in 1980.
With direct competition from the likes of Ecrion and Apptivo, Gentrack must constantly strive to keep ahead of its rivals. However, its solutions have already been backed by some key clients in the market, with a particularly strong base among energy suppliers in New Zealand and Australia. As energy prices rapidly increase due to political instability in Europe, Gentrack has also expanded its presence strongly in the United Kingdom, forming partnerships with the likes of Marble Power, ENGIE, E.On and npower.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2019
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.2m
Company HQ
London, UK
Additional info
- Further offices in USA, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Leadership
Gary Miles
(CEO)Co-founded jNetX in 2001, where they served as CEO for 8 years. Joined Amdocs in 2009, first as Division President & CTO and then as CMO & President of Business Services. Joined Gentrack in 2020 as CEO.
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