Company Description

On May 31, 2023, Viasat completed its acquisition of Inmarsat, combining the teams, technologies and resources of the two companies to create a new global communications partner. 

About Viasat 

Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected. With offices in 24 countries around the world, our mission shapes how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world communicate and connect. Viasat is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, reliable, secure, affordable, fast connections to positively impact people's lives anywhere they are—on the ground, in the air or at sea, while building a sustainable future in space.

Chief People Office

The Chief People Office (CPO) comprises a HR Business Partnering function who deliver people services with the support of the Centres of Excellence – Reward, Resourcing, HR Services & Systems, Organisational Effectiveness & Engagement & Communication and Real Estate & Facilities.  Our purpose is twofold; to drive business performance and enabling our people to be brilliant.

Job Description

Primary role purpose:

This role will support the Global Payroll team with the accurate processing of the Inmarsat’s global payrolls, providing a first-class service to our customers. This role will primarily cover the USA & Canada but will provide cover to other global payrolls during times of absence. The advisor will also assume responsibility for monitoring costs and receipting of goods in line with vendor service contracts.  They will work closely with the HR and Reward teams in managing International Assignments.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:

• Ownership of the delivery of the country payrolls assigned to you.
• Responsible for all Payroll activities including but not limited to: transferring data to Payroll vendor, validation of payroll output, off-cycle payroll runs, manual payments, managing payroll schedules and ensuring deadlines are met
• Provision and manipulation of month end payroll data to relevant parties
• Build and foster customer relations with key business partners, both internal and external
• Act as first point of escalation for internal and external stakeholders’ payroll questions or concerns
• Resolving employee payroll enquiries within SLA guidelines
• Ensure process controls are in place, maintained, validated and update process documentations as applicable to ensure compliance
• Perform peer review approvals
• Creation and maintenance of employee knowledge based articles
• Management and tracking of international assignees, ensuring local statutory requirements are being met and allowances are being paid in line with the assignment agreements.
• Accountable for the production and upkeep of the payroll calendar
• Responsible for supporting and coordinating internal external Payroll audits
• Support improvement of existing work processes and systems
• Identify and present solutions for continuous process improvement
• Manage and perform 'Root Cause Analysis' on issues faces and suggest appropriate corrective action for current remediation and future control
• Perform routine and non-routine data retrieval, research, analysis and reporting from payroll records as requested
• Ensure payroll knowledge is maintained and up to date with current legislation changes
• Contribute to HR projects as required

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

• Proven international payroll experience 
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of tax and social security deductions
• Self-motivated
• Payroll qualified CIPP or similar
• Team player
• Strong communicator
• Familiar with a payroll outsourced model
• Must be able to demonstrate ability to manipulate data within excel

Desirable Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience using SAP HR platform
• Experience of case mgt system (Service Now) 

Additional Information

You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.

Our culture and ways of working 

Our values define our culture and represent what we believe in. Viasat employees aspire to behaviours that support our values, which create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation. 

• Customer – we provide a unique value to our customers 
• Accountability – we take ownership, we deliver results, and we keep our promises 
• Respect – we collaborate, we embrace and celebrate diversity and we value difference 
• Excellence – we create bold solutions for our customers and put quality at the heart of everything we do 

We also value and encourage a healthy work-life balance, so we offer flexible working wherever possible. Depending on the operational requirements of your job and your team, we can offer compressed hours (nine-day fortnight), hybrid office-remote working, and flexibility during your working day to take care of personal commitments. 

Diversity

We want the best people for the job, and we warmly welcome applications from you if you’re suitably qualified and eligible, regardless of your sex, gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, gender identity, neurodiverse qualities, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, or maternity status. 

We are signed up to the Halo Hair Code, which aims to protect employees who come to work with natural hair and protective hairstyles associated with their racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. 

To give you the best experience possible during your application process and interview, we can make adjustments. For example, if you’re visually impaired we’ll happily meet you locally and help you find your way to our office, or if you have neurodiverse qualities, we can provide you with additional support to help you prepare for your interview. Please let our Resourcing Team know if there are any ways in which we can support you.