Join us as Nordic Payroll Specialist
Function: Human Resources
Reports to: Payroll Manager
Location: Sweden
Terms & Conditions: Full-time, you need to have the right to work
Join our Nordic HR team! We work to shape and develop the organization to be number 1 in the global market. Here's your chance to become part of a team that supports and develops our greatest asset: our employees!
JOB PURPOSE
As a Nordic Payroll Specialist, your responsibility is to ensure Unilever's payroll deliveries, ensuring service and quality from our external partners in the four Nordic countries.
You will be an important link between the company, employees and our salary-related partners. A great focus is on developing collaboration and building relationships with our suppliers in payroll, time and attendance accounting as well as pensions and benefits, ensuring and improving our processes. In this role, you also act as an internal contact person in salary, tax and pension issues and co-operate actively with finance and global mobility. You’ll be part of a team that believes in doing work that matters — for people and the planet. Because here, we don’t just hire for jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Managing ongoing salary, pension and benefit matters
- Responding to service requests related to payroll inquiries
- Serving as reference point for escalated payroll inquiries, including trouble shooting requests, working closely with your People Experience team and external vendors
- Processing off-cycle requests as needed, submission of one-time payments, verifying payroll output
- Building relationships with our external vendors in payroll, in all Nordic countries, ensuring and verifying payroll processes also locally
- Working closely with payroll vendor regarding tax notices, maintaining tax registrations
- Facilitating year-end activities and other internal checkpoints including adjustments, reconciliation and providing data analytics
- Reconciliation of salary/benefits/pension to the financial system
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration
- 5 years of experience in payroll management and processes
- Experience in working with outsourced payroll management
- Knowledge of wage and tax laws
- Proactive and service minded attitude
- Capability to take over projects and control checkpoints
- Fluency in English as well as Swedish, Finnish or Danish
- Background in ProMark system is seen a plus, as well as experience in building service interfaces and system set-ups together with external vendors
What’s in it for you?
You have a great opportunity to use your expertise in all payroll-related activities, developing the role together with stakeholders and your team of HR professionals. As a Nordic Payroll Specialist, you also have a great opportunity to co-operate with Unilever global payroll and rewards. You have the possibility to grow and stretch your expertise without boundaries.
Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.
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