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International Payroll Specialist - 6 Month FTCAberdeen · 2 Locations
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International Payroll Specialist - 6 Month FTC

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-25 2 Locations Hybrid Accounting
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 2,916 GBP–3,750 GBP/mo

About the Company

Job Description Job Description The Payroll Specialist is a key member of the Global Payroll team. The role provides flexible payroll expertise and operational support across the global payroll function, helping to ensure continuity of service, effective workload management, and consistent delivery across all regions. The role holder will work across multiple jurisdictions and payroll processes, providing additional capacity during peak periods, covering absences, supporting business change initiatives, and responding to evolving business needs. Working closely with payroll providers, regional payroll teams and internal stakeholders, the role holder will deliver accurate, compliant and efficient end-to-end payroll services. As a payroll subject matter expert, they will support payroll processing, controls, issue resolution, escalations and continuous improvement activity, adapting quickly to different country requirements and operational priorities.

About the Role

The role holder will provide hands-on support for business-as-usual payroll delivery across multiple regions, partnering with colleagues across Payroll, People & Comms, Finance and Technology teams to ensure service continuity and maintain high standards of payroll accuracy and compliance. They will also contribute to global projects, process standardisation initiatives and the sharing of best practice across the payroll function. Success in this role requires strong analytical capability, sound judgement, attention to detail and the ability to operate effectively in a complex global environment. The role holder must be comfortable working across different countries, systems and regulatory frameworks, balancing competing priorities while maintaining a strong focus on service delivery. They will also contribute to payroll governance, controls, reporting and performance metrics to help ensure payroll is delivered accurately, compliantly and right first time.

Responsibilities

  • ● Provide flexible payroll support across the Global Payroll team, ensuring continuity of service and high-quality payroll delivery during peak periods, absences, organisational change and fluctuations in workload.
  • ● Deliver accurate and timely payroll processing across multiple countries and regions, adapting quickly to different payroll cycles, processes, legislative requirements and operational priorities.
  • ● Partner with payroll providers, regional payroll teams and internal stakeholders to support payroll processing, service delivery, issue resolution and escalation management.
  • ● Own and resolve complex payroll, tax and employee pay queries, coordinating specialist support where required and sharing knowledge across the wider payroll team.
  • ● Maintain payroll data quality, controls, KPIs and service standards, ensuring payroll processes remain compliant, auditable and effective.
  • ● Support payroll accounting activities, including reconciliations, finance interfaces, payroll reporting and the provision of supporting documentation.
  • ● Collaborate with People Services, HR, Reward, Finance, Tax, Mobility and Technology teams to ensure a seamless end-to-end colleague experience and effective payroll delivery.
  • ● Maintain awareness of legislative, regulatory and market developments across relevant jurisdictions, ensuring payroll practices remain compliant and up to date.
  • ● About the candidate:
  • ● Knowledge of Workday and experience of payroll systems, HR platforms and provider technologies.
  • ● Knowledge of complex payroll matters, which may include share plans, global mobility, taxation and statutory requirements.
  • ● Good understanding of end-to-end HR processes, payroll accounting, risk controls and compliance frameworks
  • ● Collaborative and culturally aware, with the ability to build effective relationships across countries, time zones and functions
  • ● Able to be flexible working across several time zones when required
  • ● Our benefits
  • ● There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
  • ● When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
  • ● Our business
  • ● Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas - our vectors of growth - focused on our clients' changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here .