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About the Role
This is a fixed-term role (until the end of 2026) supporting various HR activities in Japan as a Payroll and HR Generalist. The role involves performing as a Payroll and HR Generalist, supporting a diverse client group across BBPLC and BX, and working closely with HR specialist teams, business heads, and managers on talent acquisition and management, training and development, compensation, and employee relations.
Responsibilities
- Manage payroll functions, including calculating employee pay, withholding taxes, and other deductions.
- Maintain accurate payroll records for the business.
- Process payroll for hourly, salaried, and commissioned employees.
- Calculate and manage tax and other contributions, withholdings, and payouts.
- Administer and troubleshoot employee payroll records.
- Provide guidance and support to employees on payroll matters, including salary and wage calculations, overtime, bonuses, and commissions.
- Handle statutory filings and respond to government institution notices related to statutory obligations.
- Perform payroll statutory reporting and filing, liaising with local tax authorities.
- Support system changes, maintain documentation, and ensure time-management, screening, and monthly sign-off processes are completed accurately and on time.
- Act as a key point of contact for internal stakeholders and third-party payroll providers.
Requirements
- Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard.
- Drive continuous improvement.
- Possess in-depth technical knowledge and experience in the assigned area of expertise.
- Have a thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise.
- Lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements, and coordinating team resources.
- Demonstrate clear leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard (for People Leaders).
- Develop technical expertise in the work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate (for individual contributors).
- Have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
- Partner with other functions and business areas.
- Take responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
- Escalate breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.
- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
- Advise and influence decision-making within own area of expertise.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work owned or contributed to.
- Deliver work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function.
- Gain knowledge of the organization's products, services, and processes within the function.
- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the organization's sub-function objectives.
- Make evaluative judgments based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
- Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience, guided by precedents.
- Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
- Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function.
- Build a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organization.
- Demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship.
- Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.
- Work closely with colleagues across HR and Payroll, collaborating respectfully within a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
- Barclays is required by law to confirm Legal Right to Work.
- Declare any work visa sponsorship requirements.
Skills
- Payroll processing
- Tax withholding
- Payroll record maintenance
- Employee payroll support
- Statutory filings
- Statutory reporting
- Liaison with tax authorities
- Risk and controls
- Change and transformation
- Business acumen
- Strategic thinking
- Digital and technology
- Job-specific technical skills
- Talent acquisition
- Talent management
- Training and development
- Compensation
- Employee relations
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Fixed-term
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.
- Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful.
- They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.