Senior Analyst Payroll & Compliance

at  Hilton

Senior Analyst Payroll & Compliance
This is your chance to be part of a Corporate Human Resources team at a top global hospitality company!
Under the direction of the Payroll & Compliance Team Leader The Senior Analyst for Payroll & Compliance will deliver the day-to-day payroll compliance reporting, tax analysis, and analytical processes as per our agreed timetable and Service level agreements. The Senior analyst will be part of a dedicated customer focused team, whose goal is to offer best-in-class payroll and compliance services to our key stakeholders. We process payroll for approx. 10k UK employees throughout the UK and on behalf of 25 PAYE tax references/owners. Our role is to ensure that our processes for on-cycle payroll and off-cycle payroll are compliant with UK statutory requirements This will require meticulous attention to detail, the ability to understand and interpret statutory legislation within the Payroll Services and Employment Tax arena, and provide a high standard of accurate, detailed analytics, reconciliation and compliance reporting.
Some of the key projects for the Payroll Compliance team are: HMRC compliance reporting for PAYE; annual PSA analysis and reporting; P11Ds; Short Term Business Visitors annual return; Additional Holiday Pay monthly calculations; Earned Wage Access, Gender Pay reporting; Pension auto enrolment compliance; SOX compliance and controls; Payroll Balance Sheet Reconciliations; General Ledger journals for Payroll; Process Improvements; Audit reviews;, vendor management; and assisting with benefit reviews for future business development.
We are part of a fast-paced Payroll & Compliance industry - as statutory payroll and tax legislation changes regularly, and our business development opportunities, often results in our Payroll team being involved in new initiatives and projects. In 2022 and 2023, our Hilton UK Payroll & Compliance team were short listed in the prestigious Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals Annual Awards, for the Best In-House Payroll Team. This demonstrates the fantastic teamwork and professionalism of our team, and our aim to deliver excellent service. Hilton UK Payroll & Compliance team is part of the wider Hilton Global Payroll Team. As such, our continued collaboration with our colleagues in Memphis, Virginia, Hyderabad, Watford, and throughout the organization, is an essential part of our continuous journey to provide the best-in-class Payroll and Compliance service to our customers.

YOU HAVE THESE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Similar experience in an Analyst or Senior Analyst role/capacity.
• Exposure to the latest payroll and tax compliance procedures and legislation.
• Advanced excel skills including pivots, vlookups, advanced formatting skills are required.
• Knowledge and understanding of UK Pension auto-enrolment regulations
• Demonstrate decision making, attention to detail, excellent analytical skills and customer care focus.
• Strong inter-personal skills and able to communicate and influence at all levels.
• Critical thinker, motivator, collaborative, problem solving abilities,
• Be able to use own initiative with ‘can-do’ approach, and able to mentor others if required.
• Thrive under pressure in a fast paced environment, being able to handle multiple demands and appropriately prioritise responsibilities.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, critical thinking, quantitative & qualitative analytical skills and decision making skills to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and to provide recommendations for optimal solutions.
• Strong inter-personal skills and able to maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, managers and clients with well-developed written and verbal communication and comprehension skills.
• Good knowledge of finance modules of an ERP system such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft
• Travel up to 10% on occasion may be required.

Please refer the Job description for details