Payroll Specialist

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  If you are passionate on executing accurate, timely and compliant payroll process for over 1000 employees, across multiple markets and ensuring payroll performance consistently meets defined quality standards while meeting all statutory requirements, then this role is just for you!

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be

• Payroll Processing:

Manage the full end to end delivery of payroll on defined monthly metric target SLAs in market of responsibility:

• Collecting required payroll inputs including timesheet data, calculating salaries, overtime, bonuses, and deductions based.
• Load transactional data for payroll processing in line with the payroll calendar
• Review and approve final payroll results prior to payment
• Ensure final checks, governance controls and validations are executed
• Process bank transfers and followup approvals and bank processing
• Prepare and maintain reconciliations and payroll control files as per schedules to demonstrate accuracy and completeness of processed values
• Calculating and settling final dues (end of service, vacation balance) according to regulations.
• Compliance & Reporting:
• Adhering to labor laws, social insurance laws, and tax regulations by preparing, submitting and processing payments of statutory reports (social insurance, tax).
• Prepare documentation for internal and external audits and tax reporting requirements
• Data Management: Ensure accurate reflection of employee master data into payroll system of new hires, terminations, and changes.
• Reconciliation: Performing account balance checks and reconciling payroll data.
• Collaboration: Working with HR, Reward, Finance, Treasury and Auditors to ensure seamless data flow and regular reporting. 
• Inquiry Resolution: Addressing employee questions about pay, deductions, and benefits with accuracy
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance both payroll system and processes, focusing on global standards, productivity and cost efficiency.

Experiences & Qualifications
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Minimum:

• Minimum of 3 years proven work experience in payroll processing and HRIS /Finance integrations
• Strong knowledge of pensions and statutory matters (tax and social security)
• Working knowledge of HRIS and financial systems – Workday and SAP
• Expert knowledge of MS Office applications
• Outstanding organizational and data analysis skills 
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to identify issues and errors 
• Ability to work across various areas of the organization to ensure proper stakeholder alignment as needed 
• Must be able to work independently, accurate while delivering consistent high quality work in a fast-paced environment
• Good administrative, negotiation and influencing skills

Preferred:

• Experience managing payroll for multi-site or mixed workforce population

Skills

• Advanced English language both written and verbal
• Strong communication skills
• Interpersonal skills/Customer Service mindset
• Meticulous attention to details
• Proactive, energized and positive
• Results oriented with threat passion for organizational success

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors:
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

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.