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Payroll Officer
Specifications:
- Full Time
- Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
- Location: Abuja | Nigeria.
- Category: Finance Jobs
Description:
- This role will support the administration of lean transactional payroll operations and for ensuring payroll operations are run efficiently across the hub, its compliance, efficiency, and accuracy.
- This includes ensuring the continuous accuracy of MyHR payroll master data, employee records and monthly staff payroll by maintaining relevant records across the hub.
- This role will support the Hub Payroll consultant to review and deliver payroll operational and administrative service, ensuring excellent implementation in the deployment of payroll operational process and procedures.
- The role requires a systematic, integrated approach with a focus on continuous improvement.
Main accountabilities but not limited to the following
Relationship & stakeholder management:
- Support the collaborative efforts with the People function to ensure a seamless employee experience.
- Handling payroll related queries from staff liaising with vendor and internal stakeholders, and timely management of queries adhering to Service Level Agreements.
- Strive to understand stakeholder queries and resolve tickets in a customer centric manner
Data management:
- Ensure information in MyHR (Global HRIS) is accurate and updated regularly and maintain annual dashboard.
- Master data in payroll software is updated on monthly basis.
- Prepare monthly reconciliation and various reports for respective stake holders.
- Support the review of data sourced from multiple countries.
- Assist with the review of employee data (new hires, changes, additional earnings) from MyHR to inform payroll run(s) and escalate any issue to Line Manager.
Records Management:
- Assist with the maintenance rigorous filing of all payroll related documentations (payslips and payroll reports especially).
- Support with archiving/ destroying payroll records in line with data protection policies and practices in the country.
- Support audits where required.
- Verifying the reports generated by the vendor and carrying out accuracy checks
- Setting up the annual payroll calendar with the inputs from internal teams and the vendor and ensure strict adherence to the agreed timelines
Professional services expertise:
Where appropriate work in conjunction with the MSP and Payroll Consultant to:
- Support the regional payroll operations strategy, including review of existing delivery model and practices to ensure compliance, efficiency and accuracy.
- Assist with completing payroll calculations manually (through excel templates) or through a payroll system.
- Follow up with payments and contributions to statutory bodies (pension, social security particularly).
- Ensure system generated pay slips are distributed to employees accurately and in time.
- Consolidate payroll register report and other payroll related reports and seek appropriate vetting and approvals for payroll processing.
- Prepare all journals and accruals related to payroll in the countries allocated to this role.
- Assist with the accurate, timely payment and compliance with all statutory requirements.
- Assist with the follow up and timely processing of final settlement for leavers.
- Support overtime process payments and reimbursements were required.
- Ensure timely processing of Purchase Request (PR) and Purchase Orders (PO) for HR related vendor payments i.e. medical insurance, medical claims, payroll vendor fees, etc
Teamwork:
- Proactively support and offer help to other team members when their workload requires additional support.
- Show flexibility in delivering activities that are not strictly within this role’s scope.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Qualifications: Degree Level Education in Finance / HR
- Language: The British Council systems and global processes operate in English. Written and verbal proficiency in English is required
Minimum/essential:
- Experience of working with multiple datasets and confidential employee information.
- Experience of delivering payroll operations processes and practices
Desirable:
- Knowledge of automation in payroll
- Expertise/Experience of payroll operations across several countries in the region, including the operation of tools, processes and procedures
- Ability to demonstrate critical thinking skills and initiative
- Has worked in a multinational organization, with varied cultures and nationalities.
Salary: N9,579,375 Gross depending on the skill and experience.
Application Closing Date: 11st August 2025.
Regional Senior Marketing Manager, Arts
Specifications:
- Full Time
- Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
- Location: Abuja | Nigeria.
- Category: Finance Jobs
Description:
Working closely with the Senior Marketing Manager (in the relevant sector), the purpose of this role is to help drive the growth, reach, impact and reputation of the business by:
- Supporting the delivery of a clear, consistent, innovative, effective and sustainable programme of marketing campaign management activity aligned to wider strategy;
- Providing support to the wider sector programme teams in all marketing tasks and; providing support to colleagues in regions through the provision of toolkits and content packages.
Main Accountabilities
These are not limited to the following:
Sector/Subject Expertise:
- Manages and evaluates consistent and replicable multi-channel marketing campaign plans for programme and sector activity.
- Ensures campaigns are commensurate with project prioritisation, scale and scope and are data-led, strategically aligned and sustainable.
- Manages internal and external delivery of marketing campaign activity and relationships with internal and external suppliers on a day-to-day basis
Brand and Market Positioning:
- Ensures the British Council brand and reputation are preserved and improved, particularly on partner platforms and channels.
- Provides expert advice, support and challenge on marketing to internal stakeholders.
- Keeps abreast of the latest developments and trends in marketing, and in the wider sector.
Consultancy, analysis & problem-solving:
- Ensures the successful impact and effectiveness of marketing activity through evidence and evaluation and makes recommendations for improvement based on key audience insights.
- Applies analytical approaches to identify and assess new opportunities for marketing activity.
Strategy and Planning:
- Ensures marketing strategy is aligned with the business areas and global marketing strategies.
- Makes appropriate links to issues across the broader organisation, to ensure that the development of marketing activity is based on informed business insight and joined-up thinking.
- Consults closely with internal stakeholders to understand current and future opportunities for marketing activity.
Commercial & financial management:
- Using agreed corporate systems and processes, where needed, plans and manages the budget for the relevant sector area.
- Conducts monthly and year-end reporting on progress against plan and deliverables, budget, and management of issues and risks.
Relationship & stakeholder management:
- Promotes and champions best practice marketing through the global Marketing Community of Practice and the global network of marketing professionals.
- Develops peer/personal networks within and outside Marketing to enhance own knowledge and expertise.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Candidates should possess a Degree in Marketing, Communications or relevant discipline, or demonstrable equivalent level of experience
- Experience in the cultural, education or charitable sectors
- Experienced in the design and delivery of marketing strategies and plans to support programmes/products
- Experience of conceiving and implementing multi-channel digital marketing campaigns, including paid activity
- Experience of engaging audiences across a variety of channels and platforms
- Experience of effective campaign evaluation
Desirable:
- Postgraduate or Masters level marketing or business qualification
- Experience in a global organisation
- Experience in the cultural, education or charitable sectors
- Experience in content commissioning.
Application Closing Date 3rd August 2025
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