FREELANCE Italian Payroll Analyst (Luxury Brand) – Birmingham

An exciting bi-lingual payroll analyst role just drop! This is a delightful freelance project to join a well-known jewellery retail brand.
They are looking for a specialist freelance Italian Payroll Analyst for their European department. The successful Italian Payroll Analyst will be responsible for the collation of payroll data and transcribing it into templates for upload by the brands’ outsourced payroll providers, according to each country’s payroll cycle.
The successful Italian Payroll Analyst will be responsible for producing validation reports to check for missing information and anomalies in the payroll data before submission to the payroll provider.

TITLE: FREELANCE Italian Payroll Analyst (Luxury Brand) – Birmingham
Start date: ASAP
Languages needed: Native Italian and Fluent English
Duration of Contract: 2-3 months FTC (Inside IR35)
Work Form: Hybrid (2x onsite, 3x work from home)
Salary: £30,000 PA
Location: Birmingham

Company details
You will be joining a global luxury fashion brand specialising in accessories and jewellery. This is an initial fix-term contract that may become permanent or long-term for the right candidate with the right ‘can do’ attitude.
It’s exciting and varied! You will need to have at least 1 year experience working in a payroll environment working across numerous EU countries. You must have understanding of statutory payments and deductions involved in a payroll cycle and knowledge of year end payroll procedures.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
– Collate the hours / payments submitted in Workday and transcribe into payroll providers templates.
– Produce validation and exception reports to check for missing information and anomalies before submission to the payroll providers.
– Co-ordinate and support the payment of bonus and annual salary review data with the third-party payroll providers.
– Check payment files on receipt from payroll provider and raise any issues in a timely manner.
– Register and provide sickness data to the payroll provider and authorities as appropriate.
– Enrol employees into pension schemes and benefit schemes as appropriate.
– Provide advice and support to Managers and Employees in all aspects of pay queries in line with our Service Level Agreement (SLA).
– Collaborate with the payroll providers to ensure that any queries that cannot be resolved internally are resolved in an efficient manner and within the SLA.
– Build relationships with Management teams to proactively support their training needs to ensure payroll information is submitted accurately and on time.
– Co-ordinate and provide or process adhoc requests for information from external bodies, such as attachment of earnings.
– Produce/ action any reports required by the business.
– Deal with third parties / local authorities earnings enquiries and queries, e.g. financial references.
– Liaise with the other departments to ensure that queries related to Payroll activities are resolved in a timely manner.
– Maintain the payroll Knowledge Base ensuring processes and procedures are current, effective and translated (as required) specific to each country.
– Develop training materials and train managers and employees as required.
– Support systems testing and project work as required.
– Carry out any other reasonable duties requested by Payroll management.
– Build and maintain effective working relationships with key partners.

REQUIREMENTS:

– Native Italian and Fluent English

– Minimum of 1 year experience in payroll administration

– GCSE grade A to C in Maths

– Degree in finance or business-related studies

– You must have UK right-to-work and will not require visa sponsorship now or in the future

– You must be able to commute to Birmingham 2x a week

– Intermediate Excel skills, highly numerical and analytical