EMEA Payroll Practitioner
Business Unit:Human Capital Group
Industry:No Industry
Overview
Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With uniquely deep industry expertise, broad international reach, and a partnership approach rooted in trust, the firm provides innovative, integrated solutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.
Scope
We are seeking an experienced, detail-oriented and highly organized Payroll Practitioner to ensure Houlihan Lokey’s payroll process is executed flawlessly and will scale with the growth of our business. This is an amazing opportunity to be a key contributor to the payroll team. This role reports into the EMEA Payroll Manager. The Payroll Practitioner will work closely with our Workday HRIS, Compensation, Human Resources Operations, Benefits, and International Payroll Vendor/Platform teams. This is a hybrid working position which requires a minimum of 2-3 days working in one of our UK or Paris offices.
Responsibilities
Payroll Administration & Operations
Process monthly payrolls for assigned EMEA countries, such as France, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, ensuring strict adherence to unique country-specific cutoffs
Ensure accuracy of data in the Workday system for hew hires, job changes, salary changes and terminations
Coordinate, review, and administer monthly payrolls in collaboration with our outsourced vendor partners, Pw
C and Papaya
Input and audit employee details, salary changes, overtime, leaves, bonuses, pension adjustments, and deductions into applicable payroll systems, including auditing gross to net calculations
Process all non-cash benefits received from the accounting team such as overtime meals and late-night taxi income monthly
Process all terminated employee prorated calculations and additional termination payments and holiday payouts
Coordinate funds distribution, process payments, and ensure timely wire transmissions to meet local payment deadlines
Prepare monthly general ledgers and payroll account reconciliation for select countries
Employee & Firm Support
Be the first point of contact for assigned EMEA countries payroll related queries and correspondence
Respond to all employee queries submitted via the Company’s Service
Now system daily
Review and resolve any individual queries within Service Level Agreement timeframe, escalating as needed
Process country specific on-boarding and employment documents from employees, insuring accurate coding in Workday, payroll deductions, and reporting
Collaborate and review employment certificate requests
Confidently explain unique salary proration, time off accruals, and maternity calculations
Compliance, Controls & Audit
Consult with payroll bureaus, payroll providers, and firm HR legal to ensure payrolls are processed in accordance with current payroll legislation and collective bargaining agreements
Maintain an up-to-date understanding of country-specific payroll legislation, income tax, social security, statutory reporting, tax withholding, and benefit-in-kind requirements across assigned EMEA jurisdictions,Apply country-specific payroll tax legislation and statutory requirements, for example including but not limited to French Impôt sur le Revenu, cotisations sociales and DSN (Déclaration Sociale Nominative) requirements, and Italian IRPEF (Imposta sul Reddito delle Persone Fisiche), INPS and INAIL requirements
Maintain a working knowledge of local payroll tax withholding, social security, statutory deductions, taxable benefits and year-end reporting requirements, and assess the impact of legislative changes on payroll processing
Collaborate with Workday IT and HRIS on configuration updates to support changes in regulation or CBAs
Maintain complete payroll confidentiality and comply with all GDPR regulations.
Other duties as assigned
Basic Qualifications
The ideal candidate for this role will have:Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience)3+ years of advanced multi-jurisdictional EMEA payroll administration, such as France, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherland
Experience with Workday, in-house payroll systems and local in-country partners
Demonstrated understanding of European payroll tax and employment legislation, including income tax withholding, social security, taxable benefits/benefits in kind, statutory deductions and employer reporting requirements
Practical knowledge of French payroll legislation, including Impôt sur le Revenu, cotisations sociales, DSN (Déclaration Sociale Nominative) reporting and applicable collective bargaining agreement (CBA) requirements
Working knowledge of Italian payroll legislation, including IRPEF (Imposta sul Reddito delle Persone Fisiche), INPS and INAIL contributions, taxable benefits and statutory payroll reporting requirement
Strong knowledge of shadow payrolls
Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g., VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, data comparisons, and audit reconciliations)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with a track record of articulating payroll concepts clearly to diverse stakeholder groups
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to work independently under pressure in a fast-paced environment
Proven analytical and critical thinking skills
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Workday, Payslips, and Strada Global Payroll systems
Working knowledge of Service
Now ticketing system
Professional experience in financial services or a similarly complex, highly regulated global corporate environment
Additional European language skills (such as Italian, Spanish, or French) are highly desirable
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Location: Paris, France
Type: Full time