# Payroll Specialist **Company**: People Services **Location**: London **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: HR **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://mlp.eightfold.ai/careers/job/755959300564?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_bb646611-3f3 ## Description We are seeking a Payroll Specialist to join our Human Resources Department at Millennium, a global alternative investment firm. The International Payroll team supports non-US payroll operations across EMEA and APAC, managing more than 30 payrolls for over 3,000 employees. **Responsibilities** - Manage the end-to-end monthly payroll cycle for multiple EMEA countries, ensuring accurate and timely delivery from payroll cutoff through payment. - Prepare, validate, and submit payroll inputs, including new hires, leavers, compensation changes, one-time payments, benefit deductions, leave of absence, and holiday pay. - Review gross-to-net, variance, and payment reports; investigate discrepancies and resolve issues with the payroll provider before approval. - Calculate and process termination payments, holiday payouts, and other payroll adjustments in line with local legislation and firm policy. - Prepare and reconcile funding requests for net pay, tax, and social security obligations to ensure employees and authorities are paid accurately and on time. - Support month-end finance activities, including general ledger reviews and payroll reconciliations, while maintaining clear records and audit trails. - Partner with the payroll provider on statutory filings, year-end processes, benefits, pension enrollment, and implementation of legislative changes across covered countries. - Serve as a trusted point of contact for employees and stakeholders, while identifying opportunities to strengthen controls, streamline processes, and automate manual work. **Requirements** - 5+ years of hands-on payroll processing experience, ideally supporting payrolls across multiple countries. - Strong knowledge of UK payroll, including PAYE, National Insurance, statutory payments, pensions and auto-enrollment, and termination payments. - Experience working with an outsourced or multi-country payroll provider; CloudPay and Workday experience are desirable. - Advanced Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and reconciliations, with an interest in automation and new tools. - Exceptional attention to detail and a rigorous approach to reviewing, reconciling, and maintaining confidential payroll data. - Ability to prioritize multiple payrolls and competing deadlines in a fast-paced, changing environment without compromising accuracy. - A proactive, curious mindset and the confidence to challenge existing processes and recommend practical improvements. - Clear, professional communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with employees and stakeholders at all levels; CIPP qualification, or progress toward one, is desirable. ## Skills ### Required - UK payroll - PAYE - National Insurance - Excel - CloudPay - Workday ### Nice to have - CIPP qualification --- Source: [Apply at mlp.eightfold.ai](https://mlp.eightfold.ai/careers/job/755959300564?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)