As a Barclays Payroll Service Delivery Lead, you will inspire and lead our professional Americas Payroll and Tax teams, striving to always ensure we provide a best-in-class service that meets the needs of our c.13,000 Americas-based colleagues (US, Canada, & Brazil) i.e. a service that is accurate, timely, compliant and resilient.

To be successful as a Payroll Service Delivery Lead, you should have experience with:

• Leading Americas Payroll teams in large (i.e. >10,000 colleagues on payroll) and multi-faceted organizations, preferably within a financial services organization.
• Payroll legislation, tax, financial and regulatory controls, governance, risk management and HR policy, to include IRS/CRA requirements and other important payroll submissions
• Deferred compensation approaches as they relate to payroll, and country-to-country mover and business travel related taxation and payment requirements.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) qualified or equivalent Knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley and typical internal audit requirements
• Agile project management
• Experience of tools and technology related to Payroll and HR

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

This role is located in New York

Minimum Salary: $160,000

Maximum Salary: $215,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the role

To manage payroll functions, including calculating employee pay, withholding taxes, and any other deductions, as well as maintaining accurate payroll records for the business.

Accountabilities

• Processing of payroll for hourly, salaried, and commissioned employees, calculating tax and other contributions, withholding, and paying out as appropriate.
• Employee payroll record administration and troubleshooting.
• Guidance and support to employees on all payroll matters, including queries related to calculations of salaries and wages, overtime, bonuses, and commissions.
• Compliance related statutory filings including the management of the reply to Government institution notices related to all Statutory obligations.
• Payroll statutory reporting and filing including liaison with relevant local tax authorities.

Vice President Expectations

• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.