Payroll Associate Consultant

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role/Department:

The EMEA payroll department is a highly motivated and dynamic team of 8 professionals working across 10 diverse locations. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with a skilled group, driving efficiency and ensuring seamless payroll operations. You will play a crucial role in supporting payroll functions across multiple regions, gaining invaluable experience in a fast-paced, international environment.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Performs daily payroll activities to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant payroll production of assigned payrolls including complex and year-end activities

• Reviews payroll adjustment requests to ensure proper authorization and compliance with corporate policies, employment tax & other payroll-related laws

• Responds to payroll inquiries from all levels throughout the organization to explain pay, adjustments to pay, and impact of policies, tax law and related changes.

• Analyses existing policies, procedures, and practices to ensure compliance with tax & other payroll-related laws and regulations.

• Works directly with vendors and/or reviews payroll system or applications to ensure changes submitted are correctly reflected on the payroll

• Prepares and/or monitors payroll tax and general ledger accounts/activities, and works with Finance to reconcile discrepancies, and process or advise on appropriate accounting transactions to keep accounts in balance

• Researches and monitors regulatory and legislative changes impacting payroll areas of responsibility to ensure ongoing compliance

• Responsible for input or review of country/regional metrics for assigned payrolls and any other applicable and/or requested management reports

Skills/Qualifications:

The successful candidate will benefit from having:

• Exposure to payroll within a global corporate environment

• Excel skills & systems knowledge (e.g. workday)

• Ideally familiar with all aspects of payroll processing including payroll production, reconciliation

• Attention to detail, ability to work independently, and organizational skills to meet deadlines

• Able to multi-task in a high paced environment

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, and focus on continuous improvements

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.