Payroll Supervisor Job In Dublin

Payroll Supervisor

ICON plc, a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization, seeks a Payroll Supervisor to join its Dublin Finance Team.

Job Summary:

Supervise the payroll team, coordinate operations, and workload of the Payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely payrolls, and managing relationships with payroll vendors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise a team of payroll specialists responsible for delivering accurate and timely payrolls.
• Ensure all payroll queries/escalations and out-of-cycle payment requests are dealt with in a timely manner.
• Manage relationships with payroll vendors from preparation through to delivery of all payrolls.
• Review and approve calculations performed by payroll providers.
• Coach and mentor team members to ensure they are trained appropriately, understand processes, and follow them accordingly.
• Responsible for all payroll process-related audit queries, including the maintenance of SOX documentation.
• Management of all year-end activities.
• Assist the Payroll Managers/Director with ad-hoc project work.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in Payroll or equivalent Finance area.
• Ability to coach and mentor other direct reports and work as part of a team.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills with an emphasis on customer service.
• Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines.
• Excellent administrative skills, including accurate data entry and record keeping.
• Flexible, willing to take on new challenges.
• Excellent working knowledge of best practices with regard to all aspects of Payroll, with experience of implementing/improving controls and driving efficiencies in a fast-moving environment.
• Proficient user of the Microsoft Office Suite, Expert Excel experience is essential.
• Payroll Qualification and experience of working within a shared services environment advantageous.

What ICON Can Offer:

• Competitive salary.
• Annual leave entitlements.
• Range of health insurance offerings.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme.
• Life assurance.
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits.