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We are working towards delivering light, heat and mobility to millions of people, every day. Our people want to play their part in solving the big, sophisticated challenges facing our world today and, guided by our bp values, are working to help meet the world’s need for more energy while lowering carbon emissions. In our offices at Pune, we work in customer service, finance, accounting, procurement,\nWould you like to discover how our diverse, hardworking people are leading the way in making energy cleaner and better - and how you can play your part in our outstanding team?\nJoin our team, and develop your career in an encouraging, forward-thinking environment!\nRole: Payroll Subject Matter Expert\nAs a Payroll SME you will be responsible for providing payroll delivery services, supporting internal P&C, resolving complex queries and providing guidance on payroll issues.\nTo support the provisioning of payroll and analytical services in support of accurate payroll delivery for the UK, including transactional support, vendor coordination, and timely and accurate analysis of payroll related research and queries.\n\nJob Responsibilities:\nSubject Matter Expert on Payroll processes. Provides support, guidance and training for less experienced team members.\nPrepare and monitor payroll data ensuring processes and data are in place for payroll processing per country requirements and regulations.\nWork in coordination with the outsourced service provider to ensure gross to net data is prepared and submitted in time, review pre-payroll run data and verification, and provide final sign off to vendor prior to final payroll runs to employees.\nConduct start of year and end of year payroll administration, preparation and processing activities working with payroll service provider.\nSupport audits and regulatory requests for payroll data.\nManage payroll enquiries and issues.\nMonitor data quality, running checks during trial payroll period and correcting errors.\nProvide subject matter expertise in all payroll processes and a sound knowledge of end-to-end payroll delivery.\nAction submission of prior year adjustments (EYUs/FPSAs).\nManagement of manual data entry for leave of absence e.g. family leave/unpaid leave/sickness, fuel card deductions, equity awards etc.\nManagement of the overpayments and reclaim process, liaising with P&C to ensure consistent application of the overpayment policy.\nAnalysing system integration data, identifying and fixing feed errors.\nEssential Qualification and Experience:\nBachelor's degree or equivalent in Payroll Administration, Human Resources, or another relevant field.\nRequired at least 5 years’ UK Payroll experience in both hourly and salaried payrolls, processing for both, current month and a month in arrears. \nRequired to have worked with UK Payroll within the last 12x months.\nAt least 5 years’ experience of working with high volume payroll in excess of 12,000 headcount.\nProficiency in using SAP (ADP Global View) and Workday systems.\nProven experience in dealing with UK pensions (preferably NEST, Aegon). Pension uploads; reconciliation; error investigation and correction.\n\nTechnical\nProven track record in managing payroll deliveries within the team in a shared service environment in a multi- national organization.\nDemonstrates ability to administer P&C systems and processes efficiently and effectively, for payroll area / process, including the understanding of legal, fiscal and regulatory requirements\nRisk Management - acts with high level of integrity and respect for data privacy. Takes steps to mitigate against risks in this space and knows when to escalate any concerns.\nDeveloping capability to reconciliations, payroll data management and identifying errors with minimum supervisory assistance.\nExpert knowledge of Payroll systems and reporting extraction and running of macros.\nAdvance Excel abilities to enable macros and payroll checking excel formatted sheets (data analysis; formulas; v-lookup; concatenate function; etc.).\nAbility to work under pressure under tight deadlines; effectively multitask and prioritise work in a demanding business environment to ensure goals and deadlines are met.\nSound knowledge of UK statutory requirements and regulations (adoption; shared parental pay; sickness; etc).\nAbility to switch between hourly and salaried payrolls in the same month.\nAbility to perform manual Gross to Net calculation.\nSound knowledge of UK NMW rates; NI categories; employee’s and employer’s NI contribution calculations; student loan processing; court order processing; termination calculations; additional holiday pay calculations.\nExperience in processing expats.\nExperience in SSL uploads and report building in SAP (ADP).\nSound knowledge of prior year adjustments (EYUs/FPSAs) submission.\nUK Tax knowledge and ability to identify payroll-related legislation and tax regulations.\nStrong financial acumen in managing monthly recons in benefits and general ledgers/cost centres.\nAnalysis of monthly integration error logs and application of corrective actions.\nExperience in data validation between different systems.\nAbility to convey technical payroll concepts/issues to all levels.\nHigh attention to detail, including the ability to sense check actual outputs against expected outputs to spot errors.\nStrong numeracy and interpretative skills.\nAnalytic/logic approach to problem solving and ability to apply judgement and common sense.\nAbility to proactively recognize and resolve issues.\nIntegrity and approachability to discuss sensitive and confidential issues.\n\nDesirable experience\nWorkday to SAP (ADP) integration knowledge\nExperience working with WFM (Reflexis time and attendance system) and WFM to Workday integration knowledge\nExperience in payrolling cars\nExperience working with Salesforce platform\nExperience in automating manual processes\nCIPP qualification\nProficient in using MS Office and Teams\nExperience in dealing with UK workplace benefits\n\nJoin our Team and advance your career as a Payroll Subject Matter Expert!\nAt bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.\nTravel Requirement\nNo travel is expected with this roleRelocation Assistance:\nThis role is not eligible for relocationRemote Type:\nThis position is a hybrid of office/remote working Skills:\nAgility core practices, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Customer service delivery excellence, Customer Service Design, Data Management, Decision Making, Developing and implementing strategy, Discovered resource estimation and assurance, Employee and labour relations (Inactive), Extract, Global Perspective, Information Security, Leading transformation, Management Reporting, Managing change, Managing strategic partnerships, Measurement and metrics, Organizational Knowledge, Performance and planning, Problem Solving, Project and programme management {+ 8 more}.\n\n Legal Disclaimer:\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. 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