Senior Payroll & Rewards Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and manage daily international payroll operations for the United Kingdom, Australia, France, and India.

• Oversee payroll inputs, coordinate with providers, address corrections, respond to employee inquiries, and resolve issues.

• Conduct gross-to-net reconciliations, perform variance analyses, and validate outputs prior to sign-off and funding.

• Assist in the transition from ADP Celergo to Deel, involving discovery, data validation, parallel testing, issue tracking, go-live readiness, and post-go-live stabilization.

• Ensure audit-ready internal controls across payroll processes and support SOX compliance efforts.

• Investigate and rectify payroll discrepancies and exceptions in collaboration with employees, Deel, and cross-functional partners.

• Engage in the design, administration, and annual renewal of global benefit plans.

• Maintain communication with global health and welfare consultants, insurance carriers, and third-party plan administrators.

• Work alongside the Global People Partner Lead on statutory and parental leave programs.

• Facilitate annual compensation planning cycles by conducting data audits, validating merit matrices, testing systems, and communicating with employees.

• Address employee inquiries regarding payroll calculations, benefits, leave policies, and total rewards.

• Recognize and implement improvements in payroll and total rewards processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• 3-5+ years of experience in payroll operations.

• Proven expertise in managing multi-country payroll across the United Kingdom, India, Australia, and France.

• Experience in facilitating payroll operations in coordination with external vendors, such as Deel.

• Proficient in conducting gross-to-net reviews, complex variance analyses, and reconciliations.

• Familiarity with working alongside outsourced global payroll providers.

• Experience in supporting global benefits administration and interacting with benefit vendors.

• Background in assisting with leave of absence programs across multiple countries.

• Strong consultative communication skills and effective stakeholder management abilities.

• Preferred experience in participating in or managing enterprise HRIS or global payroll implementations, cutovers, and parallel runs.

• Proficiency in Workday for core HCM, compensation, and payroll workflows is preferred.

• Experience in SOX-compliant environments and supporting internal/external audit walkthroughs and control testing is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Global health and welfare programs.

• Statutory and company leaves.

• Global benefit plans, including enrollments, vendor feeds, life status changes, and plan funding.

• Parental leave initiatives.

• Support for compensation review cycles.