About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution with over 130 years of financial experience and more than 22,000 partners. We serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Role/Department: The EMEA payroll department is a highly motivated and dynamic team of 8 professionals working across multiple regions.
This role supports payroll functions across multiple regions, gaining invaluable experience in a fast-paced, international environment.
Main Responsibilities:
* Perform daily payroll activities to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant payroll production of assigned payrolls including complex and year-end activities
* Review payroll adjustment requests to ensure proper authorization and compliance with corporate policies, employment tax & other payroll-related laws
* Respond to payroll inquiries from all levels throughout the organization to explain pay, adjustments to pay, and impact of policies, tax law and related changes
You will also:
* Analyze existing policies, procedures, and practices to ensure compliance with tax & other payroll-related laws and regulations
* Work directly with vendors and/or review payroll system or applications to ensure changes submitted are correctly reflected on the payroll
* Prepare and/or monitor payroll tax and general ledger accounts/activities, and work with Finance to reconcile discrepancies, and process or advise on appropriate accounting transactions to keep accounts in balance
* Research and monitor regulatory and legislative changes impacting payroll areas of responsibility to ensure ongoing compliance
* Responsible for input or review of country/regional metrics for assigned payrolls and any other applicable and/or requested management reports
Skills/Qualifications:
* Exposure to payroll within a global corporate environment
* Excel skills & systems knowledge (e.g. Workday)
* Ideal familiarity with all aspects of payroll processing including payroll production, reconciliation
We offer:
* A flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas
* Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve