Overview
The Payroll Officer (International Payroll) will supervise a team to ensure timely and high-quality processing of international professional staff payroll and entitlements, payments, and accounting.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads and manages the international staff payroll and entitlements processing team.
- Manages off cycle and advance payments for staff members globally.
- Develops new procedures and guidelines in payroll.
- Develops monitoring mechanisms for assessment of key internal controls in global payroll environment.
- Acts as Focal point for resolution of cross -functional matters.
- Assists Payroll Manager for responding to internal/external audit queries.
- Identifies risks and communicates with stakeholders and management.
- Implements, measures performance, evaluates and reports on Service Level Agreements.
- Leads, contributes to complex and challenging business projects.
- In the absence of Payroll Manager, manages Payroll operations.
Required Experience
- At least five years of work experience in the field of HR and/or finance and accounting, preferably in an international environment;
- Experience with integrated Human Resource Management and Payroll computer applications (preferably Oracle);
- At least two years of managerial responsibility in a large, complex, international organization/company, preferably within a Shared Service Centre or other processing environment;
- Experience in global payroll management covering multi-country and multi-currency context would be an advantage;
- International experience in UN payroll environment at an international professional level would be an advantage.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Human Resources, Finance and Accounting or a related field from an accredited academic institution with at least five years of relevant professional experience; or,
- University degree in the above fields with seven years of relevant professional experience.
