Candice Lazar

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Al Quoz, Dubai

Mobile :009***********

Land line : 044422501

E-mail: acchyc@r.postjobfree.com

Visa : Resident (spouse)

PROFILE

A versatile and hard working Professional with practical knowledge of

Payroll, compensation, benefits, accounts, pensions in EMEA and APAC

business areas, who always strives in providing quality solutions and

service to the business. Excellent negotiation and problem solving skills,

project management, data migrations, and payroll and HR transition for more

than 200 clients.

Possess outstanding written and oral communication skills and the ability

to work independently and as part of a team. Have managed more than 10

business heads. Have experience in multinational organisations. I am very

customer centric. I am more of a people-person, I like to communicate and

appreciate other people including those who hold quite different viewpoints

from my own.

EDUCATION

06/1998 - 04/2002 Bachelor of Commerce

Pune University, India

Accountancy, Management Accounting, Business Taxation

& Auditing, Business Economics, Company Law &

Secretarial Practice, Cost Accounting, Business

Administration.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating Systems : Windows XP, Vista

Tools / Products : Microsoft Office Suite, Excel advance,Paypoint,

Ceridian, Sun accounts, vision excel,TeamSpirit

HR and payroll solutions, Trent, Midland HR,

Business Objects, Safegui, Sure pay Advantage

(ADP), ADP HRA,ADP Freedom, SAP HR and Finance,

PeopleSoft, MS Office, Paye Master, Sage, Star

Payroll 2000, Phoenix, QTAC.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

. Management of client size 200 and above

. In house payroll management within the organisations and dealing with

different business partners.

. Payrolls for UK, Spain, India, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, India-

basics only, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Portugal, Poland,

Greece, US and US 401k

. Drive a standardized dashboard reporting in time

. Conflict management

. Reporting and data analysis on profitability and budgeting

. Driving KPI's

. Reward functions, benefits projects, benefit pooling

. Managed more than 35 staff and more than 200 client portfolio's

providing HR and payroll services in UK and around EMEA and APAC

. Last point of all escalations. Dealing with different tax authorities

different statutory bodies

. Training internal teams and external clients on various legislation and

in house HR software services.

Strategy

. Have managed migration strategies and implementation

. Management with local vendors to facilitate and support the regional

payrolls.

. Managed the implementation of global strategies, governance and HRIM

programs

. Managed implementation of routine processes such as annual

compensation planning cycle and new global/regional initiatives

04/2011-01/2014 Topsource Global Solutions Limited (FOR UK,

Netherlands, GCC,Australia)

Position Senior Payroll Operations Manager

Managing a team of 35 payroll and accounting professionals.

Process Management: Be the central point of all IT international process

development, documentation and change management

Liaising with external providers in different countries like UAE, South

Africa, Germany, US, Netherlands.

Testing of internally developed HR and Payroll application Suite

Making sure the department follows standard payroll and HR practices in

line with compliances

Managed global payroll utility providers' performance/metrics/KPIs and

ensure timely compliances of local legal requirements

Manage coordination of local payroll vendor with global support team

Preparing SLA in line with the current UK and India practice for current

and new clients.

Encourage and implement continuous development measures in payroll.

Develop, implement and generate performance metrics and annual review

for payroll personnel. Provide coaching and development opportunities

and address performance issues in timely manner as appropriate.

Driving KPI across the business

Analysing current clients and driving them through process improvement

Performa's.

Heading UK payroll operations

Testing new products and software's developed in house and making sure

training and testing is done before going live. Designing new tools for

data management.

Last point of contact for all clients on any issues and escalations.

Analysing profitability and reports submitted by project managers.

Payroll Compliance in different countries.

Process Orientation with ability to build a process of out chaos.

Worked with Risk Management partner within the business to perform

regular reviews in the region to identify process risks and control

issues

05/2010-10/2010 Barclays Capital- Investment Bank London (contract

through portfolio payroll)

Position HR, Payroll and Projects Consultant UK and EMEA

Year end project management for Barclays Wealth and Barclays Capital.

Data migration projects.

Salary survey and benefits.

Development of new ideas.

Generating various reports to analyse data.

Helping with day to running of pay stubs and reward.

UK, MEA Payroll compliance.

Expat payroll.

Registering new schemes with the Revenue and audit control.

Running audit trail and maintaining records

P11d-year end benefit statements.

Solving employee pay, contract and tax queries.

Projects- Online portal, benefit compliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

11/2009-04/2010 Freshfields Brukhaus Deringer LLP-London (contract)

Position Expat and UK payroll Manager

Running 4 payrolls for the company with outsourced payroll provider

Ceridian.

Manage relationship with outside vendors like Bakertilly, Hargreaves

Lansdown, Ernest young

Manage a payroll assistant.

Run an expat payroll and manage all inbound and outbound secondees from

UK to different countries.

Preparing certificate of coverage E101's, P46 expats and P85.

Shadow payrolls for US, Moscow, Beijing, Amsterdam, UAE, Oman and other

Gulf regions.

Management of flexible benefits throughout the company.

Employee tax related queries, calendar statements and statements of

earnings.

Ex-gratia, payment in lieu of notice, cost of living allowance (cola),

disturbance allowance, hardship allowance calculation.

Calculating and posting class 2 nics for Partners and Quasi partners.

P11d and Paye Settlement agreement preparation.

Calculation of SMP, SSP, SPP.

Weekly off cycle payments to employees and all third party payments.

Generating headcount reports, monitoring season ticket and loan balances

Pension only payroll and pension cheques to retired employees.

National statistics.

Review meetings with payroll provider, and finding ways to simplify

procedures.

Payroll journals, payroll posting and general ledger.

Salary rec, tax and NI rec.

Preparing headcount and costs for budget.

Staff training, appraisals, projects, recruitment.

Liaising with the Revenue and Deloitte regarding payroll compliance.

01/2009 - 09/2009 Morgan Stanley, London, United Kingdom.(contract

through portfolio payroll)

Position EMEA,UK Payroll and benefitsConsultant

Running payroll for UK, United Arab Emirates, Luxembourg, Turkey,

Israel, Qatar, Spain, Netherlands, South Africa and Ireland.

Manage relationship with outside payroll providers like PWC, KPMG and

payrolls on internal payroll system Trent and PeopleSoft.

Manage relationship with benefit vendors; evaluate opportunities for

implementing cost-effective benefit packages on a regular basis.

Manage benefits in various countries and make sure all the tax and

social security payments are made in regulation to each country.

Preparing monthly reports using GPS system for all countries, making

sure the anomalies and differences reports are clear. Running ProClarity

and business objects report for compensation statements.

Errors and warnings, pensions reports, gratuity, Spanish, Luxembourg and

Israel pensions, Computers at home, cycle to work, gym salary sacrifice

journals and reconciliations

Run shadow payrolls for Ireland.

Manual calculation of severance pay, gratuity, pensions, payment after

leaving, stock options.

Being first point of contact for all payroll, tax, and benefits queries

for UK and EMEA region.

Running an expat payroll, liaising with PWC on expat tax cola etc.

Solving P11d and year end queries from previous years.

Payroll adjustments, payments via bacs and chaps.

Bonus accruals.

Calculation of severance, non compete bonus, commission, cola, hypo tax,

tax levy, compromise agreements.

Payroll compliance

Creating new payroll process and process maps for EMEA payrolls.

Long Term Disability reconciliation

Budget and forecast for UK and EMEA

09/2008 - 12/2008 Genworth Financial, London, United Kingdom(Contract)

Position Senior Payroll and Benefits Specialist

Running payroll for 7 countries UK, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Poland, UAE

and Turkey.

Manage relationship with outside payroll provider.

Manage company benefits: pension, SIP, healthcare, company loans and

flexi benefits, holiday buying.

Severance pay calculations from contracts, non-compete bonus

arrangements.

Liaising with an external payroll provider and with all other bureaus in

different regions worldwide.

Answering all business payroll queries, contacting Inland Revenue and

KPMG on various tax issues

Project management, to transition and set up payroll in new countries

Implementing new procedures for payroll set up and cost management

Trying to find new procedures to make payroll process easy

Updating the process maps

PSA and P11d

Keeping track of the payroll funding with treasury and cash flow in

payroll accounts

Ensuring deadlines are met on a timely manner

05/2008 - 08/2008 Barclays Capital, London, United Kingdom. (contract

through Portfolio payroll)

Position Consultant

Filing P14 and P60 for all Barclays Capital and Wealth expat employees

Sorting out all manual adjustment for previous year.

Inbound secondees

Helping in adhoc expat queries

Liaising with Inland Revenue and PWC on various tax issues

Japanese payroll processing, US expats and inpats.

Cola, hypotax, relocation, 401k US benefits.

Helping with UK payroll with share options, SMP, SSP, bonus round etc.

Checking payroll reports and reconciliation.

P11D

Cash book checking.

Manual payments, reconciliation of payroll journals and adjustments.

06/2007 - 04/2008 Trace group PLC, London, United Kingdom.

Position Payroll and HR Manager

Managing a team of 10 payroll administrators.

Grievances

Managing multiple payroll clients(150 client portfolios).

Implementation and transition on new payrolls and other payroll

processes

MIS reporting and ensuring all tasks are assigned and checked

periodically

Approving holidays, timesheets, bonus structure etc

Appraisals and team training, arranging courses for the team and setting

you work orders.

Day to day running of the payrolls and allocation of work load through

out the week and day.

Staff training on director's NI, share option plans, SSP, SMP etc

Taking part in start to end in interviewing and employing new staff

Manual calculation for tax, NI, Class A NI, Pension Percentage etc

Sorting out P11D from the previous years. SMP, SSP etc

Maintaining high customer skills by calling clients on issues, sending

confirmation emails, courtesy calls regarding products services, meeting

clients

Quality management and SOX

Paye settlement (PSA agreements) schemes for clients.

Dealing with off shore clients and drawing contracts with the Revenue on

paye modified scheme, hypo tax.

Working in a highly quick turnover environment,

The payroll outcome on accuracy went up to 99.48% from 90%

Advise clients on pension providers, new employee schemes,redundancy,

disciplinary acts.

Following SLA rules for payroll.

Year end- P60, P14, P35, P11d spreadsheets, benefits and tax compliance

etc.

In house payroll and benefits for Trace employees.

Assisting in Implementation and migration of payroll data from one

system to another.

10/2006 - 05/2007 Datamonitor PLC, London, United Kingdom.

Position Payroll and Benefits Manager (Contract)

Preparing Payrolls for 2000-2700 employees for 5 companies with the

bureau ADP.

Preparing monthly reports for Company directors.

Processing forms P11D, P60, P46, P45, P35.

Handling childcare vouchers from busy bees.

Calculation of SSP,SMP,SPP etc

Manual calculation for tax, NI, Class A NI, Pension Percentage etc

Payroll integration for major companies like Ovum and Orbys.

Setting up Pensions with external pension providers like Scottish

equitable and Standard Life.

Good knowledge of company benefits like car fleet, CO2 emissions, loan.

Paye settlement with the inland Revenue (PSA).

Maintaining overseas payroll process with overseas bureaus like

Australia, Japan, Switzerland.

Healthcare scheme from AXA PPP for all UK employees and separate

healthcare for overseas payroll.

Headcounts, Payroll journals, Analysis by business units in total 7.

Handling company share options, helping employees in exercising options

and arranging agreements for overseas employees with the Revenue.

Sending minutes, loan agreements and other relevant documents to brokers

eg: Investec

Pension percentage and updating pension providers.

Managing 2 payroll assistants I have gained good managerial skills.

Liaising with ADP in preparing yearend audit reports.

Director's remuneration, redundancy payments, executives and non

executives Invoices and benefits.

P85 and P86, setting up cola schemes etc

Commission checklist for monthly and quarterly reports, business unit

reports.

11/2005 - 10/2006 Peter Hunt & Co., London, United Kingdom.

Position Payroll Administrator

Preparing Payrolls for 3000-3600 employees for different clients.

Preparing monthly reports for Company directors.

Processing forms P11D, P60, P46,P45.

Filing tax returns, employer P35

Calculation of SSP,SMP,SPP etc

Manual calculation for tax, NI, Class A NI, Pension Percentage etc

Setting up new Paye, bank accounts, autopays, bacs payment etc

Handling Options for clients, managing minutes and loan agreements

Good knowledge of company benefits like car fleet, CO2 emissions, loan

etc

Set up paye settlement for clients where the payroll volume is high

Can handle stress as payroll is a job of accuracy and time keeping

Expatriate payroll for clients in Argentina, France, Australia etc

Managing 2 payroll assistants I have gained good managerial skills.

Along with payroll I used to help clients with contracts and benefits

for new employees

Opening bank accounts, Liasoning the payroll bill costs with clients

Online filing of all year end forms etc

11/2003 - 11/2004

Anderson Ross Chartered Accountants, London, United Kingdom.

Position

Accounts and Payroll Administrator

Accounts payable.

General Ledger and book keeping.

Payroll processing for 20 clients: forms P46,P45, processing starters

and leavers on payroll for clients and in-house.

Managing overtime and time keeping records.

Managing holiday records.

Year end filing P35 and P14.

Manual salary gross to net calculation, SSP, SPP, SMP.

Setting up new companies with the Companies House.

Filing Annual returns and accounts for clients.

Maintaining clients books of trial balance.

Billing and payments.

Company secretarial work: letters and forms on behalf of the client to

the Revenue and other tax governing bodies.

Credit control.

Other adhoc bank reconciliation, cash book entries etc.

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