International Payroll Benefits Specialist

Company Overview

Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on the industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it’s our people that drive success for our clients. To understand more including day-to-day life at Clarksons, visit us at www.clarksons.com

Role Summar

yThe Payroll & Benefits Specialist will play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of payroll, compensation and benefits services across the Clarksons Group. Working closely with the Payroll Manager, Compensation & Benefits Manager, HR, Finance, Tax and external payroll providers, the role is responsible for coordinating payroll operations, managing stakeholder relationships, producing management information and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. This role focuses on payroll service delivery, governance and operational excellence, whilst also supporting compensation and benefits activities. The successful candidate will act as a trusted partner to internal stakeholders and outsourced payroll providers, helping to ensure payroll services are delivered accurately, efficiently and in line with agreed service levels. The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in payroll operations or payroll service delivery within a multinational environment, with the ability to build strong stakeholder relationships and contribute to the continuous development of payroll, compensation and benefits services. The role supports the delivery of payroll services across approximately 9 countries, 1200 employees and multiple outsourced payroll providers, utilising systems including Zellis ResourceLink, ADP Celergo & SAP SuccessFactors, and Microsoft Excel

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What you’ll be doi

ng• Coordinate the operational delivery of multiple UK and international payrolls, ensuring payroll calendars and service level agreements are achieve

d.• Act as the primary day-to-day contact for external payroll providers, managing service delivery, escalations and continuous improvement initiative

s.• Build and maintain effective working relationships with HR, Finance, Tax, Reward and business stakeholders across the Grou

p.• Develop and deliver payroll reporting, management information, reconciliations, KPI dashboards and operational insights for senior stakeholder

s.• Support payroll governance activities, ensuring robust controls, reconciliations and compliance processes are maintaine

d.• Own the coordination and resolution of payroll queries, ensuring timely and effective outcomes for employees, stakeholders and outsourced payroll provider

s.• Support annual audit requirements and maintain payroll process documentation and standard operating procedure

s.• Assist with payroll projects, including new country implementations, payroll transitions, systems enhancements and process improvement initiative

s.• Support benefits administration and assist with the coordination of annual benefits activities where require

d.• Support the annual salary and bonus review process by coordinating payroll inputs and ensuring approved changes are accurately communicated to payroll provider

s.• Support annual salary benchmarking exercises and compensation analysis where require

d.• Produce compensation and reward-related management information and reporting to support business decision makin

g.• Assist with the coordination of bonus and incentive payment processes, ensuring approved changes are accurately communicated to payroll provider

s.• Produce payroll cost analysis, journals and on-cost reporting to support Finance and business stakeholder

s.• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls, reporting and overall service deliver

y.• Drive operational excellence across the payroll function and support strategic payroll transformation initiatives, working closely with the Payroll Manager to continuously improve service delivery, governance and employee experienc

e.• Deliver accurate and timely payroll services across all assigned jurisdictions, ensuring agreed service levels are consistently achieve

d.• Build and maintain strong service relationships with payroll providers, HR, Finance, Tax and other key business stakeholde

rs• Additional / ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the busines

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What we’re looking

forWe welcome applications from candidates who share our Company Values and key attributes, as follo

ws:• Integrity and respect – acting thoughtfully and ethically to do the right thing in accordance with Conduct Rules, and to promote and foster a respectful work environment for a

ll.• Drive – self-motivation and the desire and commitment to succeed, deliver excellence and make positive chan

ge.• Relationship building – excellent communicator to effectively build strong, long-lasting relationships with colleagues, clients and othe

rs.• Collaboration – working well with others across diverse backgrounds to share information, develop skills and deliver resul

ts.• Resilience - persisting and adapting to changing or difficult situations and adopting a positive and focused approa

ch.• Smart - problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a curious and inquisitive mind, and an openness to new ide

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Other requirem

ents• Demonstrable experience within payroll operations or payroll service delivery, ideally within a multinational environm

ent.• Experience working with outsourced payroll providers, ideally across multiple countr

ies.• Experience using payroll systems such as Zellis ResourceLink, ADP Celergo or equivalent outsourced payroll solutions would be advantage

ous.• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building ski

lls.• Excellent analytical skills with advanced Microsoft Excel capabil

ity.• Experience producing payroll reporting, reconciliations and management informat

ion.• Strong understanding of payroll governance, controls and complia

nce.• Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate activities across several payrolls simultaneou

sly.• Excellent communication skills with confidence engaging stakeholders at all lev

els.• Highly organized with exceptional attention to det

ail.• Proactive, collaborative and solutions-focused appro

ach.• Experience supporting compensation, benefits or reward activities would be advantage

ous.• Clarksons is committed to supporting ongoing professional development and encourages employees to pursue relevant payroll, reward and professional qualificati

ons.• Experience supporting payroll projects or system implementat