Senior Payroll Specialist

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About the role
As a Senior Payroll Specialist, you will use your extensive payroll knowledge and advanced skills to solve complex payroll challenges. You will lead the payroll execution team and ensure all payroll activities are compliant and efficient. Your role contributes significantly to the mitigation of payroll risks and optimization of payroll processes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex payroll processing cycles.

• Develop and implement payroll policies and procedures.

• Conduct payroll system enhancements and maintenance.

• Oversee compliance with tax regulations and filings.

• Resolve advanced payroll discrepancies and issues.

• Generate and analyze detailed payroll reports.

• Train and mentor junior payroll associates.

• Coordinate multi-departmental payroll activities.

• Support financial audits with payroll data.

• Develop strategies for payroll process improvements.

Requirements:

• 3 years of relevant professional experience in finance or payroll calculation and personnel administration, or a related field

• Experience with managing UK payroll processes is preferred

• Experience in an international corporate environment

• Compliance Expertise: Deep understanding of payroll regulatory requirements.

• Advanced Problem-Solving: Tackling complex payroll issues effectively.

• Analytical Skills: Generating and interpreting payroll data reports.

• Technology Utilization: Ensuring payroll systems are up-to-date and efficient, familiarity with Global View or SAP HR is preferred

• Communication Skills: Competent interfacing with multiple departments.

• Process Optimization: Implementing impactful improvements in payroll processes.

• Advanced English language skills

Our Offer

• Room for personal development through external, internal training tools and learning and development program #GROW. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong.

• Yearly performance bonus based on your seniority.

• Referral bonus, meal vouchers, monthly allowance, gift vouchers twice a year.

• Corporate Health Insurance.

• Mindfulness and Wellbeing programs (Wellbeats, MyQuillibrium, Compsych, Mind & Body webinars).

• Up to 28 days of annual leave based on seniority.

• We have a strong Work from Home culture and take into consideration punctual needs and more.

• Flexible working schedule. You’ll find the flexibility for balance in your life.

• Being part of Wolters Kluwer you will contribute to the development of our own products and software solutions. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.