Payroll Specialist (12 month Fixed-Term Contract - UK Remote)
- Contract
Company Description
When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, and ProctorExam.
Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.
Job Description
Job Duties:
- Ensures that people are paid in an accurate and timely way
- Facilitates the timely and accurate payment of our Employees in line with payroll deadlines across a portfolio of jurisdictions
- Builds a strong and effective partnership with the People team members relevant for your portfolio, meeting regularly to discuss operational issues of concern, proactively driving continuous improvement
- Manages starters leavers and changes and all variable payments efficiently ensuring that there is adequate time for internal review and sign off before payroll close
- Collaborates closely with the People team to ensure the accurate and timely capture of any special or unusual variable payments including but not limited to commissions, spot bonuses, retention payment, LTIPs, bonuses, reimbursements and stipends.
- Takes special care and attention to terminations, scanning offboarding notices to ensure that overpayments are minimised and any overpayments are quickly managed and rectified
- Ensures external payroll processing partners are equipped with everything necessary to deliver each payroll run
- Works with state/national tax authorities to comply with all reporting requirements, certification requirements and returns in a timely and efficient manner
- Works with Accounting, FP&A and People Team to capture regular bonuses, commissions and pay reviews
- Adheres to published timetables and acts as a gatekeeper for internal partners on items which fall outside timetable, actively assisting with deadline education and compliance
- Document payroll processes and procedures with the ability to suggest best practices and opportunities
Qualifications
- 3 years payroll processing experience, preferably in a large multinational company
- Proven experience of producing high level accurate reporting
- Strong knowledge of payroll, including gross-to-net calculation, regional and local pay practices, regulations, and tax regulations
- Handle sensitive data with integrity, confidentiality, and the utmost discretion
- Excellent excel skills
- Operational knowledge of multi-company payrolls\
- Excellent communication and ability to work on payroll initiatives
- Willing to work in a fast growing, challenging environment
- Knowledge of different payroll related software like Workday/Bamboo HR/ADP Streamline/ADP Celergo
Additional Information
Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Our Values underpin everything we do.
- Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
- Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
- Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
- Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
- One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
- Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.
Seeing Beyond the Job Ad
At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!
Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. We strongly encourage applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of age, gender, religion, marital or veterans status.