Manage payroll operations and compliance for multiple AP/MEA countries, reconcile payrolls and invoices, respond to HR and employee inquiries, support process controls, create purchase orders, and assist payroll expansion and acquisition activities.
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Senior Analyst, Europe Payroll
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
Global Payroll is a part of MasterCard's Global Business Service Center and is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely payments to our employees globally. The position for Senior Analyst, Payroll & Absence Admin is to manage Asia Pacific /Middle East Africa (AP / MEA) countries' payrolls and benefit administration operationally from the beginning of each process and following through to the accurate reporting of all relevant compliances.
Role• Manage payroll operations for multiple countries within APMEA Region • Ensure monthly compliances reporting is accurate and support the results through the reconciliation process• Provide support to HR and employees by researching any inquiries and delivering excellent customer service• Ensure payroll accuracy following all controls• Create purchase orders as needed, review invoices and ensure proper invoice clearance• Identify problems that require investigation and analysis and develop solution options• Support project tasks related to expansion activities including acquisitions and new countries
All About You• Minimally 4 years of experience in payroll /finance/accounting• Good knowledge of labour laws and statutory requirements in AP and / or MEA • Demonstrates process management skills • Strong analytical/problem solving and planning skills• Ability to be flexible in a fast paced, deadline focused environment and manage multiple tasks simultaneously acquired through previous experience in related field• Highly organized, with great attention to details, articulate who knows how to develop and maintain excellent working relationships as well as providing strong customer satisfaction results are needed• Solid communication skills, ability, and willingness to exercise initiative• Demonstrated ability to work independently and in groups to complete time-sensitive projects within internal and external deadlines
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Senior Analyst, Europe Payroll
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
Global Payroll is a part of MasterCard's Global Business Service Center and is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely payments to our employees globally. The position for Senior Analyst, Payroll & Absence Admin is to manage Asia Pacific /Middle East Africa (AP / MEA) countries' payrolls and benefit administration operationally from the beginning of each process and following through to the accurate reporting of all relevant compliances.
Role• Manage payroll operations for multiple countries within APMEA Region • Ensure monthly compliances reporting is accurate and support the results through the reconciliation process• Provide support to HR and employees by researching any inquiries and delivering excellent customer service• Ensure payroll accuracy following all controls• Create purchase orders as needed, review invoices and ensure proper invoice clearance• Identify problems that require investigation and analysis and develop solution options• Support project tasks related to expansion activities including acquisitions and new countries
All About You• Minimally 4 years of experience in payroll /finance/accounting• Good knowledge of labour laws and statutory requirements in AP and / or MEA • Demonstrates process management skills • Strong analytical/problem solving and planning skills• Ability to be flexible in a fast paced, deadline focused environment and manage multiple tasks simultaneously acquired through previous experience in related field• Highly organized, with great attention to details, articulate who knows how to develop and maintain excellent working relationships as well as providing strong customer satisfaction results are needed• Solid communication skills, ability, and willingness to exercise initiative• Demonstrated ability to work independently and in groups to complete time-sensitive projects within internal and external deadlines
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
Mastercard San Francisco, California, USA Office
123 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94105
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