Sr Payroll Specialist

Senior Payroll Specialist
When you join Gartner, you'll be part of a fast-growing team that helps the world become smarter and more connected. We're the leader in our industry, achieving double-digit growth by helping clients make the right decisions with business and technology insights they can't find anywhere else. Our associates enjoy a collaborative work environment, exceptional training and career development — as well as unlimited growth potential. If you like working with a generous, supportive, high-performing team, Gartner is where you want to be.

About this role:
This position operates in a high pace environment and is responsible for the following:

What You'll Do

• Prepare, review, and approve semimonthly payrolls for multiple countries.
• Prepare off-cycle manual payments as needed with required calculations and system entries.
• Process all special payment requests such as commissions, bonuses, severance, and overtime.
• Analyze processes to drive efficiencies and best practices.
• Serve as a liaison between associates and local country payroll contacts.
• Resolve problems and respond to inquiries related to payroll earnings, deductions, and tax withholding.
• Coordinate with HR on employee data changes and benefits as recorded in the HR system.
• Coordinate with the Payroll Service Provider Account Manager.
• Review payroll system audits and address issues.
• Prepare and analyze reports for management as requested.
• Provide support and integration of new payroll acquisitions.
• Partner with the team leads on all project management initiatives.
• Mentor and train new hires.

What you'll need:

• Accounting or Finance degree preferred.
• 2+ years prior payroll experience preferably in a corporate environment
• ADP or Workday knowledge preferred.
• Ability to multi-task proficiently
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally within a team.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion regarding sensitive personnel data.
• Ability to communicate with a diverse audience at various levels within an organization.
• Effective influencing and listening skills.
• World-class internal/external customer service skills
• Strong initiative and drive
• Ability to work in a fast paced, high pressure environment.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Proactive problem-solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to drive results.
• Ability to mentor and train others

Who you are:

• Motivated, high-potential performer, with demonstrated ability to influence and lead.
• Strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Able to solve complex problems and successfully manage ambiguity and unexpected change.
• Teachable and embracing of best practices and feedback as a means of continuous improvement.
• Consistently high achiever marked by perseverance, humility, and a positive outlook in the face of challenges.

What we offer:
In addition to an outstanding work environment with rapid advancement potential, Gartner associates enjoy exceptional compensation and benefits, including:

• An upbeat, positive culture. Integrity, objectivity, collaboration, results, and a no-limits mindset are central to our values.
• Limitless growth. We work with you to help you meet your goals and advance within the company.
• Encouragement to be innovative and challenge status-quo.
• Exposure to industry-leading training and development.
• Performance based recognition and rewards.

Who are we?
At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we've grown to 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That's why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?
Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer?
Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

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