The Role
Serve as the main contact for a portfolio of payroll clients across EMEA, coordinate with in-country payroll partners, run governance calls, prepare monthly reports, maintain payroll manuals and calendars, complete checklist and checking sheets, answer and escalate queries, and ensure accurate, timely payroll delivery with excellent customer service.
Summary Generated by Built In
The EMEA Payroll Coordinator role is at the heart of our ongoing global payroll operations, acting as the interface between our global customers and in-country partners to ensure that their payrolls are consistently delivered accurately and on time while providing a best-in-class customer experience.
We have offices in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and have adopted hybrid working in both locations. We're happy to discuss how that might look for you as part of the hiring process.
We have offices in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and have adopted hybrid working in both locations. We're happy to discuss how that might look for you as part of the hiring process.
On a typical day, you'll be...
- Acting as the focal point for a varied portfolio of payroll clients, delivering consistently fantastic customer service
- Working closely with our network of in-country payroll partners to ensure customer payrolls are delivered on time and accurately
- Hosting and chairing regular governance calls with customers to track progress, review performance and identify opportunities for improvement
- Preparing monthly governance reports by country
- Ensuring that payroll manuals are relevant and updated regularly to reflect current processes
- Preparing payroll calendars and checklists, ensuring that checking sheets are completed for every payroll processed
- Answering queries from customers, partners and colleagues, troubleshooting and resolving where possible, or escalating more complex issues through our internal channels
Does this sound like you?
- Experience in a customer service / administration environment
- Payroll experience would be advantageous, but training will be provided
- Self-motivated with a passion for great service delivery
- A genuine commitment to delivering the highest standards of customer service
- An unusually high attention to detail, with the ability to spot errors or notice when things “just don’t look right” - and motivated to follow these through to resolution
- Really good skills with databases, systems and software packages, especially Microsoft Excel
- An honest and authentic communication style, able to face into both positive and difficult conversations
- A drive to be a brilliant team player, supporting colleagues across the team to ensure that customer service delivery is consistent across the department, providing help and guidance and ensuring no one is left behind
About
Our Story From our entrepreneurial origins as a founder led start up, to a high performing global player working with some of the world's most recognisable brands, activpayroll has both a fantastic history and masses of future potential. Our story began in 2001, when our founder saw a gap in the market to support the oil and gas industry. Today, we are a leading global professional service organisation, providing integrated global and domestic payroll solutions, expatriate taxation services, global HR services and online HR people management tools to over 1,200 companies in more than 150 countries worldwide. We’ve Got YouHiring people is more than an investment of time and money – it’s an investment of trust. You trust us to help you realise your fullest potential, work with brilliant people and recognise your achievements. In return, we trust your abilities, we trust your instincts and are fully behind you to deliver the great work you are capable of - empowering you to make the tough calls and valuing your opinions, ideas and abilities.
Skills Required
- Experience in a customer service or administration environment
- Payroll experience
- Strong attention to detail and ability to spot and resolve errors
- Proficiency with databases, systems and software packages, especially Microsoft Excel
- Self-motivated with a passion for great service delivery
- Excellent communication style, able to handle positive and difficult conversations
- Ability to host and chair governance calls and prepare monthly governance reports
- Team player, able to support colleagues to ensure consistent service delivery
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The Company
What We Do
Created to let your business work seamlessly in multiple countries by giving you complete clarity and confidence, activpayroll is global payroll, international payments, global mobility and HR in one. Pay your people compliantly, on time, every time, worldwide. Take control with accessible tech. Team up with global tax specialists to stay one step ahead of legislation and compliance. Strengthen your workforce with our strategic HR specialists, and work with a partner that gets your vision of global clarity. Wherever in the world your business takes you, we’ve got you.








