Payroll Specialist

Orion Group Life Sciences are currently recruiting a Payroll Specialist on behalf of our Multinational Pharmaceutical client based in Liverpool on an initial 6 - month contract (Potential to extend)

PAYROLL SPECIALIST

• Accountable for the collection and validation of payroll inputs, including time entry records, bonus and incentive payments, additional pay items and deductions.
• Independently execute and validate payrolls checking gross to net pay calculations, ensuring timely and accurate distribution of pay and deductions and overseeing the timing funding of payrolls for overseas countries
• Interprets pay policies and ensures appropriate amounts/deductions are calculated and applied to the various accounts correctly
• Serves as liaison to employees and with third party payroll vendors to ensure payroll processing accurately reflects company specific pay policies

Requirements:

• Well established payroll experience with strong EMEA payroll knowledge - from no particular region
• No preference on industry experience
• Experience dealing with Vendors
• Must be very hands on
• Good Excel
• Attention to detail, organized, proactive, efficient and able to handle multiple tasks
• Strong communication skills required
• Must be a team player
• Strong work ethic with exceptional attention to detail required.
• Experience with Workday UK Payroll preferable but not essential
• 5yrs experience minimum
• Managed multiple small payrolls of around 50 instead of one huge payroll.

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.