Senior Payroll Administrator/Manager – Fixed Term Contract recruitment
Senior Payroll Manager/Administrator will be based in house within the Corporate Finance Function in Cognizant UK.
The role expects the payroll administrator to have had strong proven experience in:
- Managing and Implementing UK/EU payrolls.
- Managing growing payrolls.
- The ability to move on requests and change processes quickly
- Delivering to time and accurately.
- Having a customer orientated approach.
- Working with a variety of cultures and nationalities as per the Cognizant business model.
- Previous experience of Employer Services Limited (ESL) services would be strongly preferred.
The key responsibilities of this person would be:
- Collating and processing the data for the monthly payroll of 4 Cognizant company entities -CTS, GSL, Ireland and Jersey.
- Supporting and managing two administrators.
- Assisting with processing of all external reporting requirements for payroll.
- Assisting with the closure of each tax year and delivery of all legislative forms relating to payroll and benefits-P11d , PSA.
- Management of the payroll software ensuring that it is kept up to date (if applicable).
- Responding effectively and efficiently to all information requests from internal and external customers via People Line and various external systems.
- Ensuring accurate calculation of manual payments from gross to net if requested.
- Ensuring that payroll processes and controls are operated in according with SOX policies.
- Ensuring that employee loans and advances are correctly controlled and managed working with both local and Indian Finance.
- Provision of payroll advice for the business, for acquisitions and general legislative information.
- To provide ad hoc support for payroll related initiatives and projects.
- Assist with the reconciliation of the balance accounts to payroll transactions.
- Assist with any required implementations relative to Payroll and supporting systems
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is the fastest-growing global IT services and business process outsourcing solutions provider, headquartered in Teaneck, N.J. Cognizant's single-minded passion is to dedicate our global technology and innovation know-how, our industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger.
Today with over 50 delivery centers worldwide and over 111,000 employees as of March 31, 2011, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the SP 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500, and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
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Senior Payroll Administrator/Manager