Since its creation in 2014, Harbour has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies. Today, Harbour is producing between 475,000 and 485,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa. Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs. Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices.

Ours is an inclusive workplace where individuals can bring their whole selves to their job and feel recognised for the value they add. We are committed to creating a genuinely inclusive and supportive working environment to ensure everyone has a positive experience at work.

At Harbour Energy, we aim to recruit, retain and promote our people based on their unique skills, regardless of race, gender or background. We need excellent people to help shape and develop the future of our company. Could this be you?

If so, we want to hear from you.

Purpose of Role:

• Responsible for the full payroll provision for UK business units – ensuring accurate and timely processing of all pay and benefits, and compliance with applicable law and regulations.

Critical Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and Harbour Energy HSEQ procedures

Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with Harbour Energy’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures, and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• Management of the outsourced payroll provision including new hires, leavers together with pay and employee benefits including allowances, insurance, pension, time off etc. Ensuring accuracy of employee payroll information.
• Management of the global mobility payroll including inpats, expats and secondees - shadow payrolls and ensuring compliance with all applicable payroll laws and internal policies.
• Work with global mobility team on all future hires and transferees, advising on statutory obligations.
• Facilitating all domestic and international BACs payments in an accurate and timely manner, ensuring all checks are completed within payroll timeframes.
• Process annual statutory reporting such as P11d etc.
• Develop and implement payroll processes and controls to improve efficiency and accuracy of payroll data.
• Provide excellent customer service to employees, and respond to payroll queries and issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Responsible for internal and external payroll audits
• Manage the outsourced payroll contract including review of annual contract, quarterly review meetings, monitoring of KPIs, periodic audits and annual budget.
• Responsible for ensuring the automated data transfer from the HR Management System (HRMS) and external portals ensuring payroll data security and accuracy. Working with HRIS on future automations and updates
• Produce payroll headcount budget and any reforecast data as requested by the finance team.
• Support finance team with the management of payroll journals from payroll provider.
• Collaborate with HR team, ensuring knowledge of payroll practices & legislation in conjunction with internal company policies (parental leave, absence etc)
• Support reward team in relation to management of employee benefits.
• Analyse and provide regular statistics to HR management including payment spend, demographics and trends.
• Prepare payroll data for executive compensation team including annual reports, CEO ratio and directors remuneration.
• Liaise with third party benefit providers where necessary (where there is an impact to payroll)
• Lead and develop payroll team members.
• Prepare termination calculations, and provide monthly reporting to finance as requested.

Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:

• Subject matter expert in payroll legislation, practices and regulation.
• Payroll qualification desired
• Previous experience at a similar level required
• Comprehensive understanding of UK and international tax and payroll laws
• Excellent PC skills including advanced Excel, Powerpoint and Power Bi skills
• Detail-orientated and analytical, with a focus on financial and numeracy skills
• Excellent communication and written skills
• Very strong attention to detail
• Understanding of Successfactors HRMS preferred
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines

Inclusive recruitment is a vital part of our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. Whatever your background, if you feel you need an adjustment during our selection process to suit your needs, please let us know, and we will be happy to help.