Payroll Generalist – Senior

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🌐 Portugal, Spain, +2 more countries – Remote

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WorkMotion

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201 - 500 employees

👥 HR Tech

🎯 Recruiter

☁️ SaaS

HR Tech • Recruitment • SaaS

WorkMotion is a German-based company specializing in global employment solutions. They provide a platform for hiring, onboarding, and managing international talent in compliance with local laws. WorkMotion offers an Employer of Record (EOR) service, allowing companies to hire employees in over 160 countries quickly and efficiently. Their services include payroll management, contract creation, expense tracking, and compliance guidance. WorkMotion aims to simplify global hiring processes, ensuring data protection and legal compliance across different jurisdictions. Their platform also integrates with various HR tools to enhance productivity and ease management tasks.

📋 Description

• Independently manage end-to-end monthly payroll cycles for an assigned portfolio of entity and partner payrolls in line with country process guides and SLAs • Coordinate data collection, validation, and submission to outsourced vendors and partners • Review vendor draft payrolls and supporting reports, including gross-to-net, contributions, and employer cost checks and reconciliations • Own customer and internal stakeholder communication for payrolls, handling queries from employees, clients, People & Culture, Finance, and other teams • Act as a subject-matter expert for assigned countries, maintaining knowledge of local payroll legislation and statutory requirements • Maintain cost calculators and gross-to-net tools for entities, ensuring accurate billing cost booking and supporting Finance with payroll cost reconciliations

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in end-to-end payroll operations, including outsourced payroll vendors or partners • Proven track record managing multiple payrolls or entities independently • Deep legislative and operational payroll knowledge in at least one country • Ability to interpret and apply statutory rules using official guidance and internal knowledge tools such as Guru and Confluence • Understanding of gross-to-net calculations, employer and employee social contributions, and total employer cost concepts • Experience using and maintaining payroll tools, cost calculators, and reconciliation templates • Excellent communication skills and strong customer service mindset • Ability to explain complex payroll topics simply and empathetically to non-experts • High attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and structured, process-driven problem solving • Adherence to approval matrices and documented procedures • Fluency in written and spoken English • Based within 2 hours of the Central European Timezone • Desirable: experience in a multi-country or high-volume payroll environment • Desirable: exposure to partner/PEO/EOR payroll models and different jurisdictions • Desirable: experience with payroll process improvements or tool optimisation projects • Desirable: familiarity with knowledge bases such as Guru and documentation tools such as Confluence

🏖️ Benefits

• WorkFlex program allowing work from anywhere, anytime, subject to location/timezone constraints • Well-Being Day: a full day off to recharge and relax • Subsidised gym memberships • Training & Development Allowance • Annual team meetups • Equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace • Recruitment accommodations available upon request