EMEA Senior Payroll Specialist

About this role:

Do you have multi-country payroll experience and are looking to take your career to the next level? Join us at a growing global bank renowned for its award-winning culture, where we innovate and evolve together to shape the future of banking.
Our EMEA Wells Fargo payroll team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced EMEA Senior Payroll Specialist. In this full-time, permanent role, you'll handle complex tasks to support payroll preparation and distribution for our operations in EMEA.
As an EMEA Senior Payroll Specialist, you'll manage vendor relationships and workflows to deliver accurate and timely payroll services to our team members across the region, ensuring compliance with local legal and regulatory standards.
You'll also play a key role in driving ongoing improvement and transformation initiatives. If you're ready to make a significant impact and grow with us, submit your application today.

In this role, you will:

• Take ownership for the delivery of EMEA Payrolls to the Company Service Level Agreements for accuracy and timeliness as well as full compliance with legislation, internal policy and control procedures.

• Contribute to providing work direction, coaching, and managing daily schedules.

• Consult in payroll inquires, records, deductions, and procedures.

• Performing reconciliations and audit tasks for monthly payrolls

• Improve and update operations by maintaining accurate records of payroll information.

• Guide resolution of payroll regulatory risks by applying understanding of current and new industry practices.

• Monitor evolving industry changes and communicating implications to team.

• Review complex data with legal compliance and the impact it will have on resources.

• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.

• Improve customer satisfaction.

• Work on payroll and wider HR projects delivering process simplification and automation.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to multi-task and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong Excel skills.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

• Good team working skills with ability to work independently.

• General financial skills and knowledge, including basic understanding of balance sheet and budgeting.

• Working knowledge of CloudPay or ADP Streamline Payroll.

• Working knowledge of Workday is preferred.

• Experience of working through change, ideally implementing interfaces / automation of processes.

• Experience in Payroll, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following work experience, training, military experience, education.

Job Expectations:

• Wells Fargo operates a Hybrid working model combining office and home working. The requirement is a minimum of 3 days in the office.

Posting End Date: 

15 May 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

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b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.