Payroll Specialist

Job Title: Payroll Specialist
Location: WM USA - 37 Upton Drive
Location Type: Hybrid
Requisition Closing date: 03/03/2025
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

As a Payroll Specialist, you will serve as a cornerstone in our organization, ensuring the smooth and accurate execution of payroll processes. Your expertise in payroll administration, coupled with your commitment to inclusivity and fairness, will drive our payroll function towards excellence. You'll lead inclusively, fostering an environment where diverse perspectives are valued, and collaborate with stakeholders to uphold our commitment to accuracy, compliance, and equity. You will also work closely with the Finance team assisting in ad hoc Finance duties where required.

When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

This role will focus on:

• Comprehensive Understanding: Utilize your extensive knowledge of payroll administration to uphold the highest standards of accuracy, compliance, and confidentiality.

• Inclusive Leadership and Communication: Lead inclusively within the payroll function, promoting an environment where every voice is heard and respected, and effectively communicate payroll-related information to stakeholders.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Harness the power of payroll data and analytics to inform strategic decisions, ensuring fairness, equity, and efficiency in our payroll processes.
• Change Management and Problem-Solving: Lead initiatives to adapt to changing regulations or systems, employing innovative problem-solving techniques to address challenges and drive continuous improvement.
• Educational and Professional Qualifications: Leverage your educational background and relevant certifications, such as the Certified Payroll Professional (CPP), to enhance your expertise and contribute to our payroll function's success.
• Global and Multicultural Awareness: Navigate the complexities of global payroll practices with sensitivity and respect for diverse cultures and regulations.
• Continuous Learning and Ethical Judgment: Commit to ongoing learning in payroll administration and uphold strong ethical principles, ensuring compliance with payroll laws and regulations while promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Adaptability: Embrace change with agility, adjusting payroll processes thoughtfully to meet evolving business needs and regulations while maintaining inclusivity and fairness.
• Physical Requirements: Perform essential job functions with accommodations available for individuals with disabilities, ensuring accessibility and inclusivity for all team members.

• Expertise: Demonstrate proficiency in payroll administration, including payroll processing, taxation, and compliance, while fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace culture.
• Leadership: Lead inclusively, promoting diversity and inclusion within the payroll function and across the organization, while fostering collaboration and mutual respect.
• Analytical Skills: Utilize strong analytical skills to interpret payroll data and make data-driven decisions that promote fairness, equity, and efficiency in payroll processes.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Employ innovative problem-solving techniques to address payroll challenges and drive process improvements in an inclusive and collaborative manner.
• Education and Certification: Possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in relevant fields, with relevant certifications such as the Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) being highly regarded for enhancing your expertise and contributing to our organization's success.

• Robust Retirement Plan: Benefit from a guaranteed 5% employer contribution to your 401K, plus an additional 3% employer match, empowering your financial security.
• Comprehensive and Supportive Parental Leave: Experience our inclusive, gender-neutral parental leave policy, offering 16 weeks at 100% pay. Upon your return, enjoy a gradual transition with a unique 80% work schedule while still receiving 100% of your pay for the first 6 months, ensuring a balanced reintegration into the workplace.
• Generous Time Off: Enjoy ample time off to recharge and attend to life's circumstances with generous vacation and well-being days, 11 observed holidays, 15 caregiver days, and 80 hours of annual sick leave.
• Community Engagement Opportunities: Make a difference with 3 paid volunteer days each year, encouraging you to give back to the community and causes you care about.
• And Many More Benefits: Discover a wide range of additional perks and benefits designed to support your well-being and professional growth. We invite you to explore all the ways we strive to create a fulfilling and rewarding work environment.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include:

• Gender-neutral parental leave
• 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
• Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse
• Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more.

Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other protected characteristics as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.