Senior Consultant - Global Compensation Services - UK&I - London/Reading/Manchester

Location: London

Requisition ID: 1569725

Our Purpose

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, we utilise the finance products, expertise, and systems we have developed to build a better working world. This begins with a culture that believes in providing you with the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a Senior Consultant to join our esteemed GCS team. Our team specialises in providing tailored global payroll solutions to clients, assisting them in mitigating risks associated with their mobile workforce. Some key responsibilities of this role include:

• Compensation data collection and analysis for tax and social security compliance
• Support with expat payroll management, by leveraging our cutting-edge technology solutions.
• UK expatriate payroll delivery, including modified Appx 6 /NI Only/ Appx 8/ Appx 5 FTC schemes.
• Performing payroll data validations, including variance analysis to identify high risk areas for clients.
• Monitoring adherence to internal global mobility policies
• Total cost reporting and advising clients on potential cost savings.

About you

• Educated to Degree level.
• Able to work with a client focused approach.
• Experience of managing complex datasets, ideally relating to compensation data for mobile employees, or willingness to learn.
• Understanding of UK payroll compliance including RTI, Apprenticeship Levy, Employment Allowance, EPS, and FPS requirements.
• Basic expatriate tax technical knowledge including expatriate reliefs such as Temporary Workplace Relief, Overseas Workdays Relief, Home Leave, relocation, bonus sourcing etc.
• Experience of working on multiple and large client payroll processing.
• Ability to self-manage day to day responsibilities.
• Proactive approach to identifying issues and finding effective solutions.
• Ability to adopt a team approach and build rapport with both the client team and internal colleagues.
• A willingness to continuously learn and develop technical knowledge.
• Previous experience of working in global compensation/expatriate management.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain excellent relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service.
• Be part of the successful delivery of client projects, ensuring technical excellence.
• Facilitate the end-to-end monthly GCS and payroll processes; to include collecting, processing, and distributing data and payroll instructions. Ensure that payrolls are processed accurately and RTI submissions made each pay period in line with agreed deadlines.
• Co-ordinate with EY colleagues in overseas offices for the completion of deliverables that require multidisciplinary skills.
• Use data analytics to provide insight to our clients and help with their mobility programme decisions.
• Assist in client retention, winning new work and other marketing initiatives.
• Create innovative technology solutions for clients which keep the GCS team at the forefront in the market EY.
• Identify improvement/automation opportunities for processes to improve our efficiency and reduce risk.
• Validate Year End reporting information and required reconciliations.
• Ensure adherence to EY Quality Risk Management procedures and responsibility for file management.
• Management of shared email inbox or similar, ensuring all required action is undertaken on a timely fashion.
• Responsible for delivery in line with KPIs/SLAs.
• Provide coaching/mentoring to junior team members.

What we Offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you will be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development.

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities.

Apply now and help us build a better working world.