Payroll Accountant

**Description**:
Our payroll operations are at the heart of our business, managing a portfolio of customers and ensuring the delivery of the end-to-end payroll service consistently, accurately and on time. The Payroll Accountant will work with their customer base to manage their payroll from the beginning of the payroll cycle right through to social and fiscal declarations, advising and guiding customers through the cycle on tax and social declarations and providing a best in class customer experience.

**On a typical day, you’ll be**:

- Acting as the focal point for a varied portfolio of payroll clients, delivering consistently fantastic customer service
- Processing end-to-end French payrolls of various headcount and pay complexity
- Hosting and chairing regular governance calls with clients to track progress, review performance and identify opportunities for improvement
- Preparing monthly governance reports
- 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 clients, partners and colleagues, troubleshooting and resolving where possible, or escalating more complex issues through our internal channels
- Delivering excellent customer service, responding quickly and effectively to all queries and ensuring that issues are resolved either directly or through the right escalation channels
- Making sure that customers are fully updated and never in any doubt as to how their service is being managed
- Making sure that any risks to service delivery are communicated quickly and realistically to the client and to the appropriate managers, and being innovative and agile in bringing solutions or mitigations to the table
- Being honest and authentic in communicating both positive and difficult conversations
- Being 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

**To be truly effective you will**:

- Experience in payroll in France, with a deep understanding of fiscal responsibilities
- A passion and aptitude for numbers, ideally gained from a role in a finance or payroll environment
- A keen eye on the external markets in payroll to ensure compliance with tax and legislation changes
- 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 with databases, systems and software packages, especially Microsoft Excel
- Being action-oriented, willing to step up and be counted under pressure and seize opportunities to make things work better for both customers and colleagues

**About activpayroll**:
**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 You**

Hiring 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.

**Our Culture and Values**

Creating a fair, inclusive team is central to our ethos, and we are committed to fostering equity and belonging in everything we do. Our core values - Big, Bold, Brilliant - underpin our shared commitment to embracing change, championing innovation and valuing every perspective our people bring to the table.