Payroll Specialist temporary

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Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, ESP
Hybrid
Junior
Fashion • Retail
The Role
Process and reconcile Spain and Portugal payrolls, ensuring accuracy, legal compliance, timely payments, and correct data uploads. Responsibilities include payroll checks, corrections, sickness processing, tax year-end activities, reporting, statutory liaison, audit support, and payroll-finance reconciliations. The role also supports process improvements and requires strong Excel, analytical, organizational, communication, and payroll problem-solving skills.
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Company Description

Ensure accurate and timely processing and balancing of Primark’s Spain and Portugal payrolls alongside the production of financial information.  Provide flexible support to senior payroll team including support on data uploads to the payroll system to high level of accuracy.

Job Description

 

Key Responsabilities

  • Help ensure that all store payrolls (including own store payrolls) are delivered to a high standard of accuracy and in accordance with current Spain and Portugal legislations, company regulations and collective agreements.
  • Following detailed payroll checking procedures across all areas such as report production, payroll checking and correction, sickness processing, etc.
  • Provide flexible support to the Iberia payroll team.
  • Liaise with governing and statutory bodies as required for any research.
  • Carry out Time-pro, WD data validations and any uploads.
  • Assist with tax year end duties such as balance reconciliations and tax control accounts.
  • Process timely payments to employees and authorities in both Spain and Portugal.
  • Payroll/Finance reconciliations.
  • Write, modify and produce reports for Payroll and wider business such as sickness reconciliation reporting from FIE data, trade unions, dismissal.
  • Assisting the team as needed during internal and external payroll audits.
  • Continuously embracing system and process improvements to boost payroll delivery, accuracy and compliance.
  • Other duties as may be required

    Qualifications

    Experience & Skills

    • Significant experience in a payroll operational team. Ideally minimum of 2 years, more is a plus
    • Knowledge of current labor law in both Spain and Portugal
    • Successful candidates should be degree in labour relations, business Administration or related studies
    • Intermediate English-speaking level.
    • Advance level of Microsoft Excel
    • Up to date working knowledge of payroll practices.
    • Experience of problems that can affect payroll and experience of resolving common payroll issues.
    • Experience of tax year end practices and requirements.
    • Ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines.
    • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels, both written and spoken.
    • Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a wider team, whilst managing workloads and remaining flexible.
    • Detailed knowledge of payroll rules and common payroll problems that can occur.
    • Strong analytical ability.
    • Ability to influence and interact well with team members.
    • Organizational and time management skills in managing multiple, diverse and sometimes conflicting priorities.
    • Ability to make decisions in a timely manner.
    • Demonstrates Primark behaviours and values, sound judgement with unquestionable ethics and integrity with a high degree of transparency and trust.

    • Highly organised, detail-oriented, possessing the ability to effectively prioritise projects and deliverables whilst meeting deadlines. 
    • Excellent attention to detail
    • Be a collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal/communication skills.
    • Proven ability in developing effective working relationships across all levels of the organisation.

    Additional Information

    Al igual que nuestra moda, nuestra cultura se adapta a cada individuo. Nos esforzamos por crear un lugar de trabajo inclusivo donde las personas puedan ser ellas mismas, acceder a oportunidades y prosperar juntas.

    Skills Required

    • Minimum two years of experience in a payroll operational team
    • Knowledge of current labor law in Spain and Portugal
    • Degree in labor relations, business administration, or a related field
    • Intermediate English-speaking ability
    • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
    • Current working knowledge of payroll practices
    • Experience resolving common payroll issues
    • Experience with tax year-end practices and requirements
    • Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
    • Effective written and verbal communication skills
    • Ability to work independently and collaboratively while managing workloads
    • Detailed knowledge of payroll rules and common payroll problems
    • Strong analytical ability
    • Organizational and time-management skills
    • Ability to make timely decisions
    • Ethics, integrity, transparency, and sound judgment
    • High organization and attention to detail
    • Collaborative interpersonal and communication skills
    • Ability to develop effective relationships across organizational levels

    Primark Compensation & Benefits Highlights

    The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Primark and has not been reviewed or approved by Primark.

    • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is often characterized as fair or good compared to similar retail roles, and overtime availability can improve take-home earnings. Recent UK minimum-rate increases and the removal of age-related pay tiers reinforce a sense of improving pay fairness.
    • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off stands out as comparatively strong for retail, with full-time roles described as having notably generous PTO alongside sick time and paid holidays. This breadth can increase the overall value of the compensation package beyond hourly wages.
    • Parental & Family Support — Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and surrogacy payments are positioned as meaningful additions to the rewards package. Ongoing colleague discounts and family-oriented support contribute to a more rounded benefits offering.

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    The Company
    HQ: Dublin, Dublin
    37,781 Employees
    Year Founded: 1969

    What We Do

    Primark is an international fashion retailer employing more than 80,000 colleagues across 17 countries in Europe and the US. Founded in Ireland in 1969 under the Penneys brand, Primark aims to provide affordable choices for everyone, from great quality everyday essentials to stand-out style across women’s, men’s and kids, as well as beauty, homeware and accessories. With a focus on creating great retail experiences, Primark has over 440 stores globally and continues to expand with the aim of reaching 530 stores by the end of 2026. ­­ Primark is working to make more sustainable fashion affordable for everyone through its Primark Cares strategy, a multi-year programme that focuses on giving clothing a longer life, protecting life on the planet and supporting the livelihoods of the people who make Primark clothes. As part of this, Primark unveiled nine commitments it is working to achieve by 2030. These commitments include making all of its clothes from recycled or more sustainably sourced materials by 2030, halving carbon emissions across its value chain and pursuing a living wage for workers in its supply chain.

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