Payroll Administrator at Nomura

Overview:

The role will report to the Head of International Payroll working closely with the other members of the payroll team within HR. The Payroll Administrator will assist with the day-to-day activities of the UK payroll function. The candidate will be expected to have a detailed knowledge of payroll processing and statutory obligations together with good excel skills.

• UK monthly payroll in an accurate and timely manner
• Maintain up to date knowledge of Payroll legislation and internal policies
• Answering day to day payroll queries together with keeping the shared mailbox up to date and dealing with employee queries
• Calculate manual salary and PAYE calculations
• Raising 3rd party, currency and ad hoc payments and booking to the relevant nominals.
• Running the share option reports together with checking against funds that have been received
• Payroll preparation
• Processing Dubai payroll together with currency payments
• Perform reconciliations for each group company using excel and Payroll reports
• Posting group company journals and the distribution of reports to relevant entity.
• Statutory Leave calculations
• Bank reconciliations
• Assisting with payroll transition to Cloud Pay, parallel runs and data transition activities

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• UK payroll experience, ideally within a Financial institution.
• The ability to deal effectively with people at all levels, internal and external to HR.
• Excel to intermediate level (use of v-lookups, pivot tables).
• Experience of working with an outsourced Payroll provider.
• Ability to work independently or within a team
• Previous experience of Resource Link and Cognos reporting desirable.
• EMEA Payroll knowledge desirable
• CIPP qualification desirable
• Attention to detail and accuracy is essential.
• Knowledge of payroll transitions to other vendors desirable