Global Payroll Team Lead

Company Description
At IFS you will work in a growing, global enterprise software company where informal hierarchies promote simplicity and trust with responsibility. We strive to deepen our expertise by taking on challenging and varying work assignments in a collaborative environment together with committed colleagues. With professionalism and a strong customer focus in everything we do, from R&D to Sales and Consultancy, we are proud to serve world-class customers all over the globe with our leading products.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.


Job Description
The IFS payroll process is outsourced to a global company, CloudPay, and currently includes 33 payrolls in 23 countries. The successful candidate will be responsible for mentoring and coaching the Payroll Executives and Payroll Support Teams within the Global Payroll Team based in Sri Lanka. They will also be responsible for ensuring that the processing and approval of payrolls are completed in an accurate and timeous manner. You will be required to work closely with key stakeholders across the business including
HRSSC, HRIS, Finance, and internal/ external audit.
Tasks include but are not limited to:

Over-sight of the payroll regions assigned to you
Maintain a close working relationship with the Global Payroll Manager, Executives & Support Team and their peers in global HR teams as well as CloudPay officials and subordinates
Conduct regular reviews with the HRSSC team and CloudPay counterparts.
Be the escalation point for all Payroll queries within your region
Investigate, reconcile, and correct payroll data issues, discrepancies and errors
Ensure timely and accurate preparation of on-demand checks for terminations, retro-adjustments and other disbursements determined to be necessary for immediate distribution
Management of the Nordic pension & insurance administration
Management of social security reporting with external service providers
Management of the Swedish benefit platform “Benify”
SCB statistic reporting
Management of the Nordic expenses



Qualifications
Degree qualified or equivalent experience
Payroll Professional Certified - CIPP/IPASS/APA or equivalent.
Working in Nordic payrolls is essential, with a minimum of 7 years’ experience,
EMEA experience an advantage
CloudPay/ADP/other systems