# Payroll and Benefits Manager

**Company**: Cigna Healthcare
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Payroll and Benefits Manager to join our team in Kenya, with responsibilities extending to other payroll areas.

**Job Summary:** As a Payroll and Benefits Manager at Cigna Healthcare, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality payroll services, managing day-to-day payroll and benefits administration, and ensuring compliance with payroll legislation.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide a high-quality payroll service, ensuring timely and accurate payments

- Manage day-to-day payroll and benefits administration with limited supervision

- Stay up-to-date with payroll legislation and compliance, interpreting new legislation and explaining it to junior team members

- Communicate with third-party payroll and benefit providers to ensure accurate and timely payments, reports, and returns

- Ensure payroll and benefits are administered and authorized in line with process control policies

- Develop and maintain relationships with Finance, HR, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth service delivery

- Serve as the initial point of contact for employees regarding payroll and benefits queries

- Proactively make recommendations for improvement and set up new processes

- Maintain employee data on HR and leave/absence management systems

- Support the management of invoices and ensure accurate payments

- Administer employee benefits, including payroll deductions and reporting to third-party providers

- Calculate statutory payroll payments and perform manual calculations as required

- Assist with training new and existing employees

- Manage a team of junior payroll support employees remotely

**Requirements:**

- At least 8 years of experience in a payroll-focused environment

- Strong interest in and deep knowledge of Kenya payroll and benefits

- Motivated by working in an international setting and contributing to payroll operations beyond Kenya

- Excellent collaboration and communication skills

- Ability to work with a high level of accuracy, attention to detail, and quality

- Solid skills in Excel; knowledge of Word and PowerPoint is an advantage

- Experience with Workday is considered a plus

**What We Offer:**

- Competitive salary

- Opportunity to work in an international setting

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment

## Skills

### Required
- payroll
- benefits administration
- HR
- Excel
- Workday

### Nice to have
- Word
- PowerPoint

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