Payroll Associate, AlphaSights
£44-48k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
Connecting businesses with industry professionals
Posted today
Connecting businesses with industry professionals
1001+ employees
Posted today
£44-48k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock humanity’s knowledge and power progress for professionals, businesses, and society.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of overall combined finance and payroll experience
- An advanced degree or training in accounting is preferable
- Experience in using accounting and payroll system
- Knowledge of accounting principles and procedures for payroll data posting
- Ability to multi-task, work flexibly with varying requirements, and willingness to perform both basic and complex tasks
- Team-player attitude, a desire to understand the company’s internal and external dynamics, and a desire to drive positive change where possible
- Have strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Have a keen eye for detail and diligent approach to work
- Be self-motivated, analytical, good with figures, organized and able to manage a busy workload with conflicting priorities
- Have a proactive approach, with a focus on the right solution, professionalism and value
What the job involves
- The company is seeking a Payroll Associate to join the team and manage a variety of key work streams pertaining to the payroll of the company. These work streams involve the initiation of payroll to full posting into the accounting systems. This is a great opportunity for a hands-on individual to work within a small team covering payroll processing in different regions (US, UK, Europe, Middle East & Asia). The role will work alongside the HR, outsourced third party payroll provider, accounts payable team and finance team
- Ensure correct set up of new starters, creating employee records, and the accuracy of personal information. Input/key in data for employees into systems
- Collect/Review employee data for the payroll requirements from HR and Finance teams
- Extract bonus data from the system, manually adjust and reallocate bonus amounts to staff based on performance and set criteria
- Assist in managing payroll operations ensuring accurate and efficient payroll processing including the analysis, preparation, and review of payroll data input
- Work with external payroll provider/systems to process payroll
- Ensure/process deductions in paychecks (transit, healthcare, pension etc)
- Ensure accuracy in posting and categorization of transactions
- Act as a key point of contact for employee pay related queries, always ensuring a good level of customer service and following prompt response times
- Document and undertake regular reviews of the payroll processes and systems
- Ensure 3rd party payroll providers invoices are reviewed and processed/paid on the due date
- Manage & monitor Company’s payroll bank account to ensure funding availability
- Assist in coordination with HR as appropriate to ensure impact of policy / employee changes captured and understood by payroll
- Provide periodic review of payroll reports and summaries, auditing the information, understanding local taxes and regulatory reporting
- Undertake various month-end close tasks in relation to payroll including accrual, payroll journals
- Assist in the annual audit process of the payroll
- Assist in developing process improvements within the payroll function, utilizing technology and creating efficiencies to maintain the accuracy, quality, and overall effectiveness of the payroll process and decrease risk of fraud and errors
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Businesses often invest significant time and effort into finding expert knowledge in a process that can be a difficult and arduous. AlphaSights bridges the gap between businesses and industry experts by sourcing people with relevant knowledge so businesses don't have to.
Through the use of artificial intelligence, AlphaSights is able to provide an end-to-end service for businesses whilst rigorously complying with company requirements. A central, ever-evolving system allows the company to keep on top of the new and most relevant industry professionals in real-time to provide tailor-made and effective service.
AlphaSights supports private equity funds, hedge funds, consultancies, Fortune 500 companies and Social Impact & Non-Profits.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Career progression
"AlphaSights has 2 instances per year in which employees can be chosen for elevation, as early as with 1 year experience the person can get a..."
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2008
$8.3m
SEED
Total funding: $8.3m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical benefits (health, vision, and dental)
- Subsidised lunch programme, corporate gym discounts, monthly team events, free breakfast & snacks
- Professional development opportunities that work to ensure that you’re supported, along with an opportunity for internal upward mobility as our growing team continues to scale
- A team-oriented, strong supportive culture that emphasises professional development and celebrating success
- Holiday allowance, excl. public holidays
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Max Cartellieri
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Began their career as a Consultant at McKinsey & Company. They then went on to co-found Ciao where they served as the Co-CEO for 7 years before co-founding AlphaSight.
Andrew Heath
(Co-CEO)Began their career as an Associate at The Boston Consulting Group. They then spent 7 years as a Managing Director at GoIndustry DoveBid.
People progressing
After joining AlphaSights back in September 2019 as part of the Lateral Recruitment function, Pip has helped to grow teams across the business and elevated to Senior Recruitment Associate and now Talent Acquisition Manager.
After graduating in 2016, Will joined AlphaSights as part of the Client Services Team. Since then they have moved on to become a Senior Account Manager & Team Lead and now serve as the Vice President of Consulting.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at AlphaSights
- We believe that investing in DEI is the right thing to do and is vital to driving progress. We go the extra mile to build teams of people with diverse backgrounds and experiences because diversity of thought drives innovation and knowledge diffusion which creates value for our clients, employees and society
- Diversity: We strive to build diverse teams, so we heavily invest in identifying and attracting top talent with diverse backgrounds and experiences
- Equity: Fair and equal treatment is in our DNA. Our processes, culture and values are designed to ensure everyone is treated equitably and with respect
- Inclusion: Our community is vibrant and we want all employees to have a feeling of belonging at AlphaSights. Through our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) we provide support and community for employees globally
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