Director - Payroll

Responsibilities

Finastra are committed to developing a best in class Finance capability that will enable Finance to deliver their stated vision of becoming a trusted, strategic partner to the business, delivering value through data-driven insights, underpinned by operational excellence and a culture of continuous improvement.

The Payroll Director will play a critical role in enabling the organisation to meet its strategic objectives. By demonstrating guidance, you will be able to impact and drive change, have an influential impact across the organisation whilst maintaining accountability for the global payroll process.

You will have Finastra employees front and foremost within this role. With an unwavering commitment to operational excellence you will take pride in guiding multi geography teams who deliver a timely and accurate payroll experience. You will think strategically, optimizing and supporting payroll across all geographies with visionary leadership, having the ability to identify opportunities for continuous improvement to deliver optimized outcomes for Finastra. You will be expected to demonstrate a true partnership with Executives with proactive stakeholder management to leverage skills and capabilities of others. A trusted business partner, you will have a high "say/do" ethos and deliver on commitments.

• Developing a continuous improvement culture to streamline and standardize payroll processes
• Fostering a collaborate working environment to unlock the potential of over 20 staff
• Foster a performance based culture to exceed organizational expectations by maintaining process quality and efficiently turning around queries
• Unlocking first class service by managing the third party payroll service providers on service level agreements, quality and cost of service
• Comfortable steering automation initiatives and application of new age technologies

• Overseeing the global payroll team for all Finastra employees including the accounting & reconciliation of all payroll related accounts
• Working with HR services teams to ensure a streamlined input/output process for salary payouts and necessary paperwork for employees at year end
• 100% compliance in all jurisdictions
• Cash-flow forecasting as well as working with Analytics teams on accurate people cost reporting

• Strategic agility and comfortable with change
• Team work and collaboration
• Operational excellence
• Functional knowledge

• Payroll/Accounting/Finance experience +15 years, accounting experience is an advantage
• Experience of multi-country payrolls
• Experience of managing third party service vendors
• Working knowledge on payroll taxation