International Payments Coordinator

PRIMARY FUNCTION

As our business continues to grow at a significant rate, the volume and complexity of the global payrolls we manage for our customers also increases. Our customers need to pay their employees and statutory payments in the various countries around the globe, activpayroll offer a number of solutions to achieve these requirements. activpayroll needs to ensure tight controls, completeness and transparency of these transactions. The main aim of the role will be to initially create customer payments and to ensure reconciliation and reporting of balances on customer accounts is complete and all transactions are recorded into the finance system.

The successful candidate will mainly work within the International Payments Team, while also working closely with other departments in the business to ensure that the strategy is delivered.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

High Level Responsibilities:

• Create payments from activpayroll customer bank accounts
• Gathering of backup for payments
• Investigation of unexpected or unfamiliar transactions

Specific Responsibilities:

• Bank reconciliations and proof of payment to satisfy customers requirements
• Report balance and turn over on accounts at month end
• Daily upload of customer banking transactions into NAV finance system & allocation to respective creditor account

Work With:

• Global on-going teams
• Finance team
• Contracts & Commercials
• Payroll implementation teams

Experience, Knowledge & Skills:

• Proven numeric skills
• Experience of reconciliations
• Basic understanding of foreign exchange and currencies
• Understand Internal Controls
• Good level of IT literacy and familiarity current software packages
• Strong emphasis on accuracy and quality
• Knowledge of payments would be an advantage but not essential

Team Focus

• Ability to work across a number of different teams based in different countries
• Ability to influence at all levels to achieve results

Commercial Awareness

• Have a good level understanding of customer agreements and service levels
• Show initiative and new ideas

Competencies

• Highly numerate
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Self-motivated with high level of drive, energy, persistence and initiative
• Ability to quickly understand systems and processes
• Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines
• Team player
• Good 'people skills', for working with a range of colleagues
• A professional manner
• Able to communicate with multiples layers of organisations, including senior leadership
• Proactive approach to problem solving