Senior Payroll & Benefits Advisor

<h2>Overview</h2> <p><strong>Senior Payroll &amp; Benefits Advisor – France</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Are you an experienced payroll professional looking to take on a key role in a growing EMEA payroll structure? Waters France is seeking a <strong>Senior Payroll &amp; Benefits Advisor</strong> to manage payroll operations for approximately 220 employees, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and an outstanding employee experience.</p> <p> </p> <p>You will be an experienced professional with <strong>CBA and project management expertise</strong>, playing a vital role in advancing payroll and benefits processes. In this <strong>permanent hybrid office-based position</strong>, located at <strong>Waters France office in Guyancourt (Yvelines, France)</strong>, you will have sole responsibility for French payroll while contributing to process improvements and supporting broader payroll and benefits initiatives across Europe.</p> <p> </p> <p>If you’re passionate about delivering exceptional service and making a meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you!</p> <h2>Responsibilities</h2> <p> </p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Accurate and timely payment of salaries to all employees.</li> <li>Providing support on benefits systems</li> <li>Check and process monthly payments to employees such as overtime, allowances and unpaid leave</li> <li>Enter all relevant changes to employee payroll records such as cost centre, address and salaries changes etc. records</li> <li>Deal with employee queries such as earnings, tax, and benefits</li> <li>Create and issue communications to employees regarding tax, ESPP, end of year tax forms.</li> <li>Ensure timely and accurate processing of payments of net pay, tax, Pension Contributions, and all other deductions from payroll.</li> <li>Strong collaboration with Accounting team to ensure timely payment of all duties and support reconciliation of P&amp;B accounts</li> <li>Enter new employees and leavers on payroll system and ensure relevant documents are submitted.</li> <li>Provide benefits information to employees during on- and offboarding process as well as ongoing support</li> <li>Ensure the monthly payroll is checked and approved by two directors prior to commit</li> <li>Utilise the benefits system to interface with payroll and benefit providers.</li> <li>Regular use of benefit provider’s websites to ensure up to date information is processed.</li> <li>Produce monthly reports for finance such as headcount and overtime</li> <li>Create ad hoc reports when requested by the HR team such as gender pay gap reports, salary listings for benefit providers and individual earnings</li> <li>Create monthly payroll journal and upload into SAP</li> <li>Process and monitor employee absence and inform HR team of anomalies</li> <li>Liaise with the auditors to ensure all the information required is presented when requested and any queries dealt within the timeframes required.</li> <li>Carry out tax year end procedures</li> <li>Investigate discrepancies raised by finance</li> <li>To keep up to date with payroll legislation</li> <li>Actively participate in payroll projects such as introduction of the benefits system, payroll upgrade.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h2>Qualifications</h2> <p>Professional qualification:</p> <ul> <li>Strong experience in Payroll &amp; Benefits administration</li> <li>Proven relevant professional experience</li> <li>Commercial qualification with sound understanding of financials and accounting</li> <li>Fluent in French and B2 level minimum English language</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> Personal skill set:</p> <ul> <li>Excellent organizational skills</li> <li>Structured and independent hands-on work approach</li> <li>Proactive and open communication style</li> <li>Quick and engaged learner</li> <li>Effective collaboration &amp; team work</li> </ul> <p>In return, we offer excellent employee benefits, as you expect from a leading global business.</p> <p> </p> <p>We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We strive to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.</p> <p> </p> <p>We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs. </p> <p> </p> <h2>Company Description</h2> <p>Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, env