Senior Payroll Data Analyst

Job Description :

About Us:

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to build a career worth celebrating.

Which company will you join?

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one’s talent and personality.

About the Function:

Human Resources

To be used for the Job Profiles of: Employee Relations, Human Resource Operations, Human Resources Business Partnering, Learning and, Talent Development, Organization Effectiveness, Payroll, Resourcing, Reward

Our Human Resources (HR) team bring brilliant people together to help us continue building iconic brands. We harness the diverse talents of our people to help them excel. We champion an inclusive and collaborative culture, where all voices and perspectives are celebrated and valued.

HR is at the heart of markets around the world, finding and developing talent that will unearth new ideas and inspire innovation. From creative problem solvers and entrepreneurs to scientists and engineers — whatever your experience and ideas, we’ll help you to harness your talents, empowering you to be the best you can be

About the role:

The North America Payroll Team supports 3,000+ employees and ensures that employee payroll processing is accurate and compliant with federal and state laws. This role supports the North America business by ensuring accurate data inputs from a wide variety of sources such as Workday and external vendor systems, thereby enabling timely and accurate payroll processing. Additionally, the role acts as administrator for the time and labor system, TimeClock Plus (TCP), ensuring accurate and timely data required for payroll processing. This is a key HR role spanning the US and Canada. HR Payroll ensures detailed execution of Diageo’s North American payrolls and all related vendor, tax, accounting and compliance items.

Role Responsibilities:

Decision Making

• Analyze payroll issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Respond to payroll queries from employees in a timely manner.
• Perform root cause analysis, improve processes, and communicate changes in an effective way.
• Maintain compliance and continuous improvement in our processes.

Context/Scope:

Market Complexity

• Accountable for Diageo employees across the US and Canada from a payroll / time & labor management support perspective.
• Identify and document end-to-end review of all payroll process per site location. Stimulate steady process enhancement to present increasing operational efficiency.
• Ensure all processes are compliant, reduce manual entry points, and align with Diageo’s internal controls.
• Ensure payroll and time configuration meets each of the sites’ requirements.

Leadership/Stakeholder Management

• Responsible for driving the continuous improvement and vendor management agenda including holding the vendors accountable and always seeking ways to improve our payroll processes.
• Own the relationships with the NAM HRCs and team leaders at production sites.
• Work closely with internal partners to identify, prepare, and implement changes as required by changes in business processes or requirements such as CBA updates and legislative changes.
• Work with global partners (e.g. Global Mobility, Diageo PLC, shared service teams, etc.) to establish and improve ways of working such as international assignees and equity related transactions.

Key Outputs

• Support payroll processing for salaried, hourly, and executive population.
• Audit payroll reports and timesheets for correctness and compliance with internal and external requirements.
• System administrator for time and attendance system (TimeClock Plus) and train new HRC users.
• Support CBA negotiations by identifying potential areas of improvement.
• Implement union CBA changes in time system as needed.
• Manage corrections where needed prior to the close of the payroll.
• Request wire transfers and/or pay cards for deposit return and stop payments.

Experience / skills required:

Qualifications and Experience

• Payroll processing system experience (e.g. ADP GlobalView, Dayforce)
• Knowledge of time and attendance systems such as TimeClock Plus a benefit.
• Attention to detail and adherence to deadlines.
• Security risk mentality and diligence in ensuring safekeeping of confidential information, as well as maintaining strict compliance with internal and external regulations.
• Strong analytical skills and comfortable working with large data sets to perform reconciliations and identify / resolve problems.
• Candidate must be a self-starter who possesses strong customer focus and is comfortable implementing change and dealing with ambiguity.
• Ability to understand and react quickly to changing priorities.
• Understanding of system interfaces such as SFTP integrations and APIs
• Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with various partners, build relationships, and influence across a large matrix organization.
• Degree or equivalent experience qualified (BS, BA)

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And crafting an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be encouraged and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mentalities, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you

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At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others.  (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.)  The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.