Global Payroll Business Analyst (FTC)

Job title:

Global Payroll Business Analyst (FTC)

Company

Haleon

Job description

Hello. We’re Haleon, a new world-leading consumer health company, shaped by everyone who joins us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. We achieve this by growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science.What’s more, we’re accomplishing this in a company that we control, within an environment that we co-create, and a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us? It’s not just a question; it’s an invitation to new opportunities to challenge yourself and exceed own goals.We are currently offering a temporary role for a Global Payroll Business Analyst on a full-time fixed-term contract until the end of 2026.The Role: Global Payroll Business AnalystAs the Global Payroll Business Analyst, you will play a crucial role in supporting global payroll operations and processes across various regions. As a member of the Global Payroll Team, you will manage all aspects of payroll functions to ensure accuracy, consistency, standardization, and compliance with SOX controls. You will also ensure that the global payroll team meets required metrics and internal management reporting requirements, working closely with payroll vendors and multiple internal functions.Key ResponsibilitiesThis role offers you the opportunity to lead key activities and advance your career. Your responsibilities will be but not limited to:

• Strategic Initiatives: Coordinate and project manage strategic payroll initiatives and projects across the global payroll organization, including global mobility, shares, and benefits improvements.
• Process Improvement: Identify and gather payroll improvements, eliminating or enhancing manual and non-essential processes through technology to simplify and streamline operations.
• Data Security: Manage internal system accesses in alignment with data security principles.
• Issue Resolution: Support the resolution of identified issues and challenges, providing clear root cause analysis, guidance, and training to the payroll team.
• Documentation: Assist the global payroll team in maintaining regular country documentation updates and monitor adherence to the approval process.
• Training and Guidance: Provide guidance and training for annual cycle planning preparation, quarterly BCP testing, global employee communications, and help guides.
• Performance Metrics: Support improvements in case management and performance dashboard metric delivery.
• Compliance Checks: Perform monthly spot checks of payroll control tools for SOX countries and five sample countries, capturing analysis and remediation evidence to ensure issues are corrected.
• Dashboard Monitoring: Monitor the performance dashboard monthly to ensure accurate data reflection per country and resolve any identified issues.
• Vendor Management: Support vendor performance management, including cost management and performance against SLA/KPIs.

Why You?If you’re a proactive and agile professional looking to advance your career, we’d love to hear from you! You thrive in vibrant, challenging, and rewarding environments. You can hit the ground running and effectively manage multiple initiatives. As a self-starter and self-motivated individual, you excel at working independently and consistently deliver high standards. Your experience, skills, and positive attitude make you a perfect fit to drive continuous improvement in global payroll team. Plus, you’ll be part of a global team and work in a very nice and friendly environment, collaborating with colleagues from around the world.What are we looking for?Education: A bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or Economics.Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience in international payroll, including processing payroll, supervising teams, and exposure to payroll projects.
• Experience working in a multinational environment and Shared Services, with proven experience in International Payroll.

Skills:

• Strong understanding of business process improvement with the ability to produce high-quality outputs.
• Proven work experience or subject matter knowledge in payroll and related systems (e.g., Workday, SAP).
• Strong background in analysis and critical evaluation of information from multiple sources.
• Ability to document information in a format understandable by both business and technology teams.
• Consulting-type skillset/mindset with strong influencing, relationship-building, communication, collaboration, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to host meetings and present new initiatives to the team
• Experience managing teams remotely.
• Ability to conduct root cause analysis and problem-solving.
• Confidence to ask questions and seek further guidance when needed.
• Ability to prioritize a complex workload with conflicting deadlines and an understanding of the importance of meeting deadlines.
• Advanced Excel capabilities.
• Proficiency in MS Office suite, including PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, etc.
• Positive, focused, and enthusiastic attitude.

Other requirements

• Location: This is an UK based position; you should be UK based with commuting distance to London.
• Languages: Hight proficiency in English is required; other languages such as Polish, Spanish, German, French or Japanese are beneficial but not essential.

This role is designed for a proactive and detail-oriented individual who is ready to take on the challenges of global payroll management and drive continuous improvement in processes and systems. Come and join us!Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.Accommodation RequestsIf you require a reasonable accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific accommodations you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable accommodations to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.

Expected salary

Location

Greater London

Job date

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 06:44:55 GMT

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