Payroll Subject Matter Expert

Entity: People, Culture & Communications Job Family Group: HR Group Job Description: Overview: We are a global energy business involved in every aspect of the energy system. We are working towards delivering light, heat and mobility to millions of people, every day. Our people want to play their part in solving the big, sophisticated challenges facing our world today and, guided by our bp values, are working to help meet the world’s need for more energy while lowering carbon emissions. In our offices at Pune, we work in customer service, finance, accounting, procurement, Would you like to discover how our diverse, hardworking people are leading the way in making energy cleaner and better – and how you can play your part in our outstanding team? Join our team, and develop your career in an encouraging, forward-thinking environment! Role: Payroll Subject Matter Expert As a Payroll SME you will be responsible for providing payroll delivery services, supporting internal P&C, resolving complex queries and providing guidance on payroll issues. To support the provisioning of payroll and analytical services in support of accurate payroll delivery for the UK, including transactional support, vendor coordination, and timely and accurate analysis of payroll related research and queries. Job Responsibilities: Subject Matter Expert on Payroll processes. Provides support, guidance and training for less experienced team members. Prepare and monitor payroll data ensuring processes and data are in place for payroll processing per country requirements and regulations. Work in coordination with the outsourced service provider to ensure gross to net data is prepared and submitted in time, review pre-payroll run data and verification, and provide final sign off to vendor prior to final payroll runs to employees. Conduct start of year and end of year payroll administration, preparation and processing activities working with payroll service provider. Support audits and regulatory requests for payroll data. Manage payroll enquiries and issues. Monitor data quality, running checks during trial payroll period and correcting errors. Provide subject matter expertise in all payroll processes and a sound knowledge of end-to-end payroll delivery. Action submission of prior year adjustments (EYUs/FPSAs). Management of manual data entry for leave of absence e.g. family leave/unpaid leave/sickness, fuel card deductions, equity awards etc. Management of the overpayments and reclaim process, liaising with P&C to ensure consistent application of the overpayment policy. Analysing system integration data, identifying and fixing feed errors. Essential Qualification and Experience: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Payroll Administration, Human Resources, or another relevant field. Required at least 5 years’ UK Payroll experience in both hourly and salaried payrolls, processing for both, current month and a month in arrears.