Senior Payroll Specialist

WorkMotion

What you will do:

• Independently manage end-to-end monthly payroll cycles for an assigned portfolio of entity and partner payrolls, in line with our Confluence country process guides and SLAs.
• Coordinate data collection, validation, and submission to outsourced vendors/partners, ensuring inputs are complete, accurate, and on time.
• Review vendor draft payrolls and supporting reports, performing detailed checks and reconciliations (gross-to-net, contributions, employer cost) before sign-off according to the approval matrix.
• Own customer and internal stakeholder communication for your payrolls, managing queries from employees, clients, People & Culture, Finance and other teams in a clear, empathetic and professional manner.
• Act as a subject-matter expert for your countries, maintaining a deep understanding of local payroll legislation and statutory requirements using official sources, Guru and Confluence.
• Own and maintain cost calculators and gross-to-net tools for your entities, ensuring accurate cost booking for billing and supporting Finance with payroll cost reconciliations.

What we are looking for:

• Strong experience in end-to-end payroll operations, including working with outsourced payroll vendors or partners, with a proven track record of managing multiple payrolls or entities independently.
• Deep legislative and operational payroll knowledge in at least one country, with the ability to interpret and apply statutory rules using official guidance and internal knowledge tools (Guru/Confluence).
• Solid understanding of gross-to-net calculations, employer and employee social contributions, and total employer cost concepts, plus experience using and maintaining payroll tools such as cost calculators and reconciliation templates.
• Excellent communication skills with a strong customer service mindset, able to explain complex payroll topics in simple, empathetic terms to non experts.
• High attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and a structured, process-driven approach to problem solving, including adherence to approval matrices and documented procedures.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken); additional languages are a plus.