Eurofins UK NSC Hiring for Payroll & Benefits Coordinator at Wolverhampton Full Time

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 58,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 54 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

Please note this is a full time, permanent position. Working Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:00

To be a central point of contact at Eurofins NSC UK Limited for all Eurofins UK entities and responsible for the areas below.

The role required a forward thinking, proactive individual who seeks change and streamlined processes. Attention to detail is essential.

Main Duties:
Responsible for the administration of bulk on-boarding new acquisitions into the Eurofins NSC UK Limited Payroll department. This will involve the initial call with the on-boarding company, the build, roll out and final go live requirements, details below some but not all of the areas to be covered:

Liaising with on-boarding company in relation to payroll requirements

Build new payrolls in line with central requirements

Principal contact for the payroll data migration requirements

Reconcile YTD figures

Work with HRIS Technical Manager & HR teams during the set up process to ensure that the occupational requirements are set up correctly.

Managing and complete parallel pay run (with support from NSC Payroll team)

Investigate and resolve variations

Ensure correct go live date & testing bacs line ahead of first pay date etc

Create training guide for use by entities

Create training guide for use for payroll and expenses team

Adhoc requirements that may arise whilst we complete the build/go live of the on-boarding

project

Involvement with large scale entity changes, e.g. hive outs, entity restructures, etc.

Manage current benefit schemes

Work with the HR Director and Payroll / Expenses Manager to review current benefit provisions and review potential new benefits or amendments to current schemes

Implement new benefit schemes to entities that are agreed to participate. Close schemes that are agreed to be ceased.

Prepare annual data required to renew benefit schemes

Support management of UK pension schemes, review and collate all elements of the UK’s pension scheme with a view to streamlining requirements, and accommodating legacy contribution levels. Ensure all data collated is stored and managed correctly within the Oracle HRIS system.

Support any necessary changes to pensions scheme including supporting with communication to managers and employees

Be a member of the Pension review team

Answer day to day general benefit, pension and payroll queries and provide an escalation point for the queries that are more complicated or cannot be resolved by colleagues

Work closely with Payroll & Expenses Supervisor & colleagues to ensure accuracy, timelines and consistency of service provision

Be actively involved in streamlining processes where possible, on an ongoing basis using best practice – thinking, plan, trial and review

Educate payroll administrators on company benefits and how to follow streamlined processes

Ensure all benefit providers are provided with all changes to ensure no over/under payments are incurred, e.g. BUPA, Perkbox, Enjoy Benefits etc.

Be proactive and support colleagues in promoting the Payroll department. Liaise with management & employees directly with a view to training and educating individuals of how benefits, pensions and payroll works

Qualifications

Essential:
Knowledge of pension and benefit schemes

Knowledge of payroll

Experience working on a range of benefits schemes such as life assurance, income protection, salary sacrifice scheme

Good working knowledge of pension scheme

Project Management experience

Excel skills

Ability to work in a complex business with multiple legal entities and sites

Able to prioritise and coordinate a range of activities

Self-Motivated can lead on their activities

Desirable:
PowerPoint skills

Friendly, positive, can do attitude

Additional Information

All applicants must have successfully completed their probationary period to be eligible to apply. Please note this is not open to employees that have been on a performance improvement plan or who have had disciplinary action within the past 12 months.

If you are interested in applying for this role please submit your CV, plus a covering letter summarising what you would bring to the role, no later than 29th July 2022. Formal interviews (that will include delivery of a presentation) will be scheduled thereafter.

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:
Holiday Purchase Scheme

Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)

Company Pension Plan

Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.

Free car parking

Worldwide career opportunities

Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it’s incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you’ll be invited to meet the team to give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Application Tips

It’s really helpful for our Recruitment Team if you include a full up to date CV, your current location and a contact number so we can talk to you about our exciting opportunities. Please also detail your current Right to Work status in the UK.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.