Payroll Specialist

FMC is an agricultural sciences company that advances farming through innovative and sustainable crop protection solutions. From our industry-leading discovery pipeline to novel biological and precision technologies, we are passionate about the power of science to solve agriculture’s biggest challenges.We employ approximately 6,400 employees at more than 100 sites across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.Our six core values: Customer-Centricity, Sustainability, Respect for People, Safety, Integrity, and Agility define who we are and how we do business.We are looking for people to join us in creating, developing, and improving our products, our processes, and our markets. If you are ready to make a difference every day, FMC is ready to talk to you.**Overall Role & Responsibility**:- Manage & process monthly payroll end to end for several countries varying in payroll complexity in a Local / Shared Service Blended Team Model across LTAM.- Provide Support for Brazil payroll process as required.- Partner with all key stakeholders to ensure the responsibilities and objectives of the payroll function are successfully met including Finance, HR, External payroll service provider and banking partners.- Ensure the accurate, complete, and timely execution of payroll processing including coordinating and securing payroll data inputs, validating all related data and ensuring timely payment/credit to the bank accounts of employees.**_Process: _**- Responsible for payroll processing, of several LTAM countries varying in payroll complexity using third party payroll partner.- Preparing and collecting all payroll data to send to payroll partner.- Checking and approving calculated payroll received from payroll partner.- Preparation of payroll checking, payment and sign off file for Payroll Manager.- Maintaining payroll records.- Responding to employee enquiries.- Reconcile and maintain payroll balance sheet account.- Statutory submissions and compliance and tax regulation.- Benefit in kind tracking and taxation.- Managing payroll disbursements.**_Audit: _**- Lead the month end close process and performance of internal & SOX controls in a timely manner.- Manage audit compliance ensuring that both internal and external issues are addressed quickly.**_People Responsibility: _**- Actively and independently manage payroll partner, personal workload and escalate solution-orientated concerns.- Achieve payroll deadlines and proactively monitor and raise instances where deadlines cannot be met in a timely manner.- Function as a member of a team, demonstrating effective teamwork and relationship building.- Participation regular training programs, stay current of local legislation.**_Education _**- Payroll, HR or accounting Technician qualified.Q ualifications- MS-Office, ADP and T&A experience essential.- Workday US payroll an advantage.- 4-5 years multinational payroll experience.- Experience working with a large payroll portfolio within a SSC environment.- Primary language: Spanish- Other languages: English: must be able to work though English. Portuguese an advantage.**_Focus Areas _**- Team Orientated - Proven ability to work in a team environment, possessing strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and nurture cross-functional teams and relationships both within, and outside of the centred function.- Results Oriented - demonstrated ability to effectively balance financial and operational factors to develop appropriate solutions in a proactive, timely and cost-effective manner.- People Oriented - respect for others, tactfully assertive, works well with a culturally diverse climate, sets and achieves goals.