EY Senior Consultant - Global Compensation Services 

United Kingdom, England, London 

307823975

Our Purpose

Our team specialises in providing tailored global payroll solutions to clients, assisting them in mitigating risks associated with their globally mobile workforce. Some key responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Compensation data collection and analysis for tax and social security compliance.
• Support with expat payroll management, by leveraging our cutting-edge technology solutions.
• Performing payroll data validations, including variance analysis to identify high risk areas for clients.
• Monitoring adherence to internal global mobility policies.
• Total cost reporting and advising clients on potential cost savings.

About you

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent.
• Able to work with a client focused approach.
• Experience of managing complex datasets, ideally relating to compensation data for mobile employees, or willingness to learn. IT literate to use and manipulate data presented in excel or equivalent platforms.
• Preferable basic expatriate tax technical knowledge including expatriate reliefs such as Temporary Workplace Relief, Overseas Workdays Relief, Home Leave, relocation, bonus sourcing etc.
• Experience of working on multiple and large client payroll processing.
• Ability to self-manage day to day responsibilities and adapt to a constantly changing environment and multiple priorities.
• Proactive approach to identifying issues and finding effective solutions.
• Ability to adopt a team approach and build rapport with both the client team and internal colleagues.
• A willingness to continuously learn and develop technical knowledge.
• Previous experience of working in global compensation/expatriate management is desirable.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain excellent relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service.
• Be part of the successful delivery of client projects, ensuring technical excellence.
• Facilitate the end-to-end monthly Mobility compensation and payroll processes; to include collecting, processing, and distributing data and payroll instructions and gathering results for further analysis. Managing client queries within the end-to-end process.
• Co-ordinate with EY colleagues in overseas offices for the completion of deliverables that require multidisciplinary skills. Own these relationships with both EY country teams and the client/3rd party teams.
• Use data analytics to provide insight to our clients and help with their mobility programme decisions.
• Assist in client retention, winning new work and other marketing initiatives.
• Create innovative technology solutions for clients which keep the Mobility compensation & payroll team at the forefront in the market EY.
• Identify improvement/automation opportunities for processes to improve our efficiency and reduce risk.
• Facilitate monthly payroll process from start to finish including collecting, processing, and distributing data via multiple reports.
• Compare client deliverables against actual payments and escalate inconsistencies to appropriate stakeholders.
• Validate Year End reporting information and required reconciliations.
• Ensure adherence to EY Quality Risk Management procedures and responsibility for file management.
• Understanding EY software & technology to facilitate preparation of numerous reports and documents, e.g. request updates from software team to meet changes required by clients.
• Liaise with EY global offices regarding monthly deliverables and current regulation.
• Management of shared email inbox or similar, ensuring all required action is undertaken on a timely fashion.
• Awareness of monthly processes and contribute to improving projects efficiency.
• Identify areas of risk or scope opportunity and escalate to management level.
• Responsible for delivery in line with KPIs/SLAs
• Provide coaching/mentoring to entry-level, apprentices or graduate members of the team.

What we Offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you will be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with Flex EY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-.being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around.
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that is right for you.