THE COMPANY

Gentrack provides leading utilities across the world with innovative cleantech solutions. The global pace of change is accelerating, and utilities need to rebuild for a more sustainable future. Working with some of the world’s biggest energy and water companies, as well as innovative challenger brands, we are helping companies reshape what it means to be a utilities business. We are driven by our passion to create positive impact. That is why utilities rely on us to drive innovation, deliver great customer experiences, and secure profits. Together, we are renewing utilities.

THE SPECIFICS

• Directly manage payroll for the northern atmosphere ensuring:
• Employee data is correctly loaded, maintained and always up to date in the payroll systems and all relevant information is provided to third party payroll providers on time.
• High degree of accuracy is maintained for earnings and deductions for each individual employee, to ensure all staff details for the pay run are accurate and complete.
• All pay runs are completed within set deadlines with sufficient time given for review, adjustments, and processing.
• Adequate and timely reporting is provided to the business and third parties, as required.
• Monthly accounting for payroll is completed accurately and within monthly deadlines, including posting of pay run journals, leave liabilities accrual, payroll cost variance analysis and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Effectively partner with third-party payroll providers and payroll contractors, to ensure accurate processing of each pay run, and ongoing monitoring and improvement of shared processes.
• Effectively partner with the People Experience team regarding key strategic deliverables such as year-end pay review and gender pay reporting as well as ensuring accuracy of employees’ data on regular basis.
• Manage compliance of any payroll related tax filings, including but not limited to PSA and P11D, and any other payroll related obligations.
• Perform regular checks on payroll data and drive payroll process improvements locally as well as globally ensuring consistency where possible.
• Provide backup and assistance to the wider finance team as required.
• Be a trusted advisor to the leadership team regarding the payroll function.
• Be responsive to the internal business queries in a reasonable timeframe.
• Effectively partner with the Payroll Officer for the southern hemisphere to ensure coverage of payroll and global consistency.
• In addition to this you are required to carry out any other duties as reasonably requested by your manager.

What we’re looking for:

• Minimum of 5 years payroll experience in United Kingdom running in-house payroll
• Excellent understanding of statutory requirements and payroll legislations.
• Exposure to ESOP pay-out and related payroll compliances.
• Problem solving ability, analytical, numeracy and excellent reconciliation skills.
• Intermediate-Advanced knowledge in MS Excel including creating pivot tables, v-look ups and any other necessary functions.
• Basic understanding of accounting concepts in relation to payroll and reconciliation of payroll accounts, as well as exposure working with foreign currencies and cost centres.
• Ability to manage assigned tasks and relationships with stakeholders across different time zones.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to manage the demands of a rapidly evolving environment.
• A passion for excellence and a commitment to be the best.
• Sound judgement and determination to achieve with a sense of urgency.
• Excellent relationship management and interpersonal skills.
• An open-minded consultative approach.
• Ability to give and receive positive and constructive feedback.
• Ability to creatively solve problems.

Please refer the Job description for details