Payroll Specialist

**Company Profile**: At Unilever you are more than your job title, you are part of the world's most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We produce world-leading brands including Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann's and Omo, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like Ben & Jerry's, The Dollar Shave Club and Surf. Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world. Have the opportunity to see the true impact that you're having in the work you do - every small thing counts. **Job Scope**: Execution of employee's payroll data input, validation and reconciliation activities on behalf of markets. Other duties include serving as a resource on complex payroll issues to assure the timely and accurate reporting of employee payroll. **Roles & Responsibilities** - To lead and support the delivery of the end-to-end payroll process for the countries of responsibility, ensuring that Payroll performance is consistently satisfactory based on the defined metric targets. - Perform all payroll processes to ensure timely, accurate and compliant payments to all employees - Responsible for collating the monthly payroll data from several stakeholders to include joiners, the final settlement for resigned employees, any deductions or compensation. - Load transactional data for payroll processing in line with the agreed payroll calendar - Review and approve final payroll result prior to payment. - Ensure that defined check, controls and validations are executed - Prepare reports and reconciliations in a timely manner to demonstrate accuracy and completeness of payroll processes. - Responsible for the provision, receipt, and entry of Payroll year-end adjustments - Driving simplification of HR processes and promoting data based organizational decisions as well as accurate HR data management across the systems - Execute 3rdparty payments& reporting, invoicing andbankfileprocessing - Ensure complianceof process tolocal legislation and controlsframework - Work closely with the relevant P&O colleagues to process all relevant changes - Manage employee relatedinquiries **Key Competencies & Skills**: - Should have an understanding and experience in Workday and Payroll Systems and their interlinkages. - Standards of Leadership - Interact and engage with HR and Business stakeholders and teams - Own data accuracy and maintenance of the data in the system - Support all internal and external audit requirements where data from the HR systems is required, and ensure all findings are investigated and resolved. - Ensure that all standard reporting requirements into the business are delivered on time - Has "customer care mindset" - Strong organization skills as well as attention to detail and due diligence - Analytical Thinking-able to tackle a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequentialapproach - Diagnostic Information Gathering-able to identify the information needed to clarify a situation, seek that information from appropriate sources, and use skillful and persistent questioning to draw out the required information. - Problem Solving-solves problems with effective solutions. - Results orientation-able to focus on the desired result of one's own or one's unit's work, set challenging goals, focus effort on the goals, and meet or exceed them. - Good communication skill - able to coordinate effectively with different stakeholders for any requirements to execute relevanttasks. **Key Qualifications**: - Relevant university degree - 1-3 years relevantexperiencein payroll/benefits management. - Fluent and strong working proficiency French & English is a must - Experiencedin payroll systems technicalknow-how - Experienced using Workday is anadvantage - Strong Numerical acumen