Payroll Administrator

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Job Details

Kantar is the world’s leading marketing data and analytics company. We have a complete, unique, and rounded understanding of how people think, feel and act; globally and locally in over 90 markets. By combining the deep expertise of our people, our data resources and benchmarks and our innovative analytics and technology, we help our clients understand people and inspire growth.

Why this job is important

We have great new opportunities for two Payroll Administrators for Southern Europe to join the team in Porto. You will be one of a team of four, reporting to the Payroll Manager. The Southern Europe payroll team manages payroll for 5 European countries. The role is responsible for managing outsourced payroll, varying in size and complexity, with adherence to policy, compliance, and legislation. It requires strong communication skills to liaison with payroll providers, internal business partners, revenue authorities, and other third parties.

What you’ll be doing
- Responsible for Payroll administration in Southern Europe (France, Italy, Portugal, Greece & Belgium) by ensuring activities are undertaken and deadlines met.
- Understand our complex business needs and manage these via 3rd party provider’s.
- Prepare payroll input for timely processing.
- Review and approve provider prepared payroll against the approved payroll inputs
- Processing queries by monitoring tickets (ServiceNow) ensuring SLA is met.

The skills & experience you’ll need.
- Must have European payroll experience, French payroll in particular
- Strong Communication skills
- Ability to prioritise, multitask and meet tight deadlines
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Excel spreadsheet skills
- We are looking for EMEA payroll experience of 2-5 years.
- Demonstrate ability to work independently in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.
- Fluent in English and in French is required.
- Knowledge of ADP & Workday advantageous.

Why join Kantar?

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, nobody knows people better than Kantar.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Kantar is committed to supporting the wellbeing of our colleagues and their family members in order to create a positive working environment where we can all thrive.

Benefits include:

- Healthcare cover
- company paid premiums for you and your immediate family
- 25 days holidays plus your birthday off
- Volunteer leave
- 2 days (paid) to give back
- Meal card
- Flexible hybrid working
- Employee Assistance Programme

Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted.

Location

Porto, R. Dom João IPortugal

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.