Payroll Specialist

Payroll Specialist

Reports to Interim Chief of People Officer

Location: Remote

Part-time: 4 days / 24 hours per week, must include Friday as part of the working week

Job Summary

As a Payroll Specialist, you will support the organization’s payroll functions, ensuring pay is processed on time, accurately, and in compliance with government regulations. You will also manage the full payroll process, from start to finish, offering support to the Payroll Manager and work across UK, Ireland, EU – primarily France, Netherlands and Germany and across India.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• To process and reconcile payroll, this includes managing PAYE and NI-related adjustments and processing BACS payments.
• Conduct manipulation and validation of incoming payroll data. Utilise attention to detail to identify discrepancies in the data.
• Manage payroll exceptions and ensure timely resolution to maintain payroll accuracy.
• Identification of payment or data errors.
• Efficiently manage your schedule and tasks to prioritise workload and meet deadlines.
• Provide customers with regular updates and relevant information regarding payroll-related matters.
• Liaising closely with external payroll partners – ADP
• Inputting and uploading data into the payroll system
• Handling starter/leaver details and bank information
• Manually adjusting statutory maternity pay (SMP), statutory sick pay (SSP), pay rates, and other adjustments
• Maintain payroll records and prepare reports as needed
• Collaborate with HR and accounting departments to streamline payroll processes
• Perform monthly reconciliations and audits of payroll data to ensure accuracy of employee pay information
• Improve and implement processes between SuccessFactors and ADP ensuring internal controls are followed
• Owning payroll-related, monthly reporting process including preparing journal entries and reconciling general ledger accounts, P&L and Balance Sheet
• Act as main point-of-contact for employees on questions relating to pay
• Maintain and constantly updating the payroll process notes
• Support other administrative and ad hoc tasks as required

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• Demonstrable payroll experience
• Knowledge of ADP payroll system is essential
• Knowledge of SuccessFactors is beneficial
• Strong numerical skills and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• High proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills
• Desire to progress and improve the payroll function
• Ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality

Travel Requirements

• As per the business needs

About OPEN Health

OPEN Health unites deep scientific knowledge with wide-ranging specialist expertise to unlock possibilities that improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing. Working in partnership with our clients, we embrace our different perspectives and strengths to deliver fresh thinking and solutions that make a difference.

OPEN Health is a flexible global organization that solves complex healthcare challenges across HEOR and market access, medical communications and creative omnichannel campaigns.

What we offer:

As a global organization, OPEN Health is committed to supporting our employees and their families through a comprehensive benefits program

• Competitive pay, generous paid vacation and holidays, and health insurance programs across all our locations
• Ongoing training and development opportunities which foster and shape your individual career path
• An active and growing commitment to bettering the communities our employees call home through our Corporate Social Responsibility program
• The opportunity to thrive in a global, collaborative environment while working every day to improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing
• Diverse, inclusive culture that encourages you to bring your whole self to work

If we sound like the sort of business environment in which you would thrive, then we would love to hear from you.

OPEN Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.