Manager, Payroll EMEA-APAC

At World Kinect, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Point of contact for UK, EMEA and APAC payrolls region related activities and initiatives.

• Oversee and supervise the team’s activities and initiatives by establishing team’s goals and monitoring key metrics, analysis, and reporting.

• Lead and supervise the payroll team of 4 staff by maintaining WFS payroll deadlines.

• Ability to process payrolls across UK, EMEA and APAC region (27 countries)

• Review payroll data of other members of the Payroll team before signing off.

• Ensure service levels are met and act as the point of contact for any escalated payroll queries.

• Administer the Year End tax filings and disbursement of employee forms for all applicable countries

• Support all relevant Finance/Accounting teams with reconciliations or general Payroll queries by maintaining an accurate General Ledger journal entries (salaries, pension, taxes, and social security) into Oracle financials at a company and employee level.

• Administer UK relief-at-source and salary sacrifice pension schemes and managing timely upload of employee and employer contributions into personal schemes for all legal entities, in line with auto-enrolment legislation

• Handle and storage of sensitive information from multiple sources both internal and external, and maintaining in line with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

• Administer expatriate related payroll activities and coordinate with external tax vendors as needed.

• Maintain the EMEA/APAC shared Payroll Inbox, working to a maximum 24 hour response time. Supporting employees with any pay-related queries.

• Maintain strong relationships with corporate staff: Accounting, Internal Audit, Financial Planning & Analysis, and People/HR.

• Maintain SOX controls and coordinate annual testing and reporting with Internal / External Auditors.

• Ability to train and assist junior staff.

• Able to articulate complicated information to non-Payroll experts.

• Ability to liaise with stakeholders and manage expectations.

• Lead continuous process improvements by utilizing new and existing technologies (i.e., automation and robotics)

• Mentors, coaches, and develops employees through orientation, training, establishment of objectives, communication of policies and rules, and constructive discipline; builds morale and motivation; enabling high level of retention within the team.

Qualifications:

• Degree level or possess an equivalent level qualification

• CIPP (Chartered Institute for payroll and pension) is preferable

• 4-5 years experience in Payroll is essential

• Knowledge on Safeguard, ADP Streamlineand WORKDAY systems highly desirable

• International experience is preferable

• Previous experience with leading team members

Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong planning and organizational skills

• Must have strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Use of Microsoft Office Suite including Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel and Outlook, and willingness to experiment and work with new technologies