Payroll Specialist, LatAm

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Sector: Finance and Accounts
Role: Specialist
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Are you passionate about ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time?

About the Team:
This is a global team that helps process accurate and compliant payroll for a large, multinational organization. The scope for RELX Payroll includes all 5 divisions of RELX (Corporate, Scientific Technical and Medical, Legal, Risk and Exhibitions), as well as any acquired companies going forward.

About the Role:
In this role, you will support and handle Payroll operational processes for 3 countries within the LATAM Region: Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, covering around 600 employees. You will ensure accurate and fast payroll processing for the 2 regions, Mexico and Colombia, in compliance with the applicable regulatory environment and in alignment with the strategic goals of the RELX group, as well as will also act as support for the Brazil operational process, bringing synergy across the LatAm teams.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating the payroll process in Mexico and Colombia, ensuring effective support for daily operations.
• Handling payroll processes, such as hirings, vacations, terminations, transfers, leaves, benefits, social charges, and accounting.
• Maintaining communication with the third-party payroll supplier, ensuring approvals, checks, and templates are aligned with core payroll processes.
• Responding to audits performed by local statutory agencies, internal auditors, and external auditors.
• Assisting in preparing management reports and updating policies as needed.
• Monitoring the application of labor legislation across the region.
• Supporting payroll operational activities in Brazil whenever necessary, collaborating with the area's synergy and effectiveness.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Fluent in Spanish, which is mandatory for this role.
• Intermediate to advanced level of English and/or Portuguese will be a plus.
• Have an education background in Accounting, Finance, Business Management, Human Resources, or relevant experience.
• Have proven and progressive experience in LATAM payroll: Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
• Display an understanding of tax regulations of more than one country with preferred knowledge in Mexico.
• Have knowledge of payroll and legislation across multiple jurisdictions in LATAM.
• Be experienced in Microsoft Office Suite; particularly Excel skills: formulas, pivot tables, V-look up.
• Show effective analytical and problem-solving skills.

Work in a Way That Works for You:
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working Pattern:
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Salary:
To be added when data can be disclosed.

Company

At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, our history, and entrepreneurial spirit make us a rare combination. We never stop innovating, always looking for ways to leverage the power of insight through data and advanced analytics to help our customers solve problems, make better decisions, and improve operations. Our technologies, decision tools and data services give our customers a clear advantage in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency.

Our businesses span the following sectors: Aviation | Chemicals & Energy | Collections & Recovery | Corporations & Non-Profits | Financial Services | Government | Healthcare | HR | Insurance | Law Enforcement & Public Safety | Tax