Lead Payroll Specialist

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**Lead Payroll Specialist (M/F/d) with Focus on Italian, Spanish & French Payroll**

On this exciting position you will be responsible for providing consistent and timely guidance to a team of Payroll and Sr Payroll specialists to ensure the timely and accurate processing of payroll for entities within Open Text including country-specific payrolls. This includes using expanded experiences of OpenText’s payroll and HCM platforms to perform the monitoring of team activity related to payroll inputs, reconciling payroll output reports, reconcile benefit invoices vs payroll output, accrual balance analysis & updates etc. Act as a delegate of the Geo Payroll manager when called upon for either day-to-day operations or special projects.

**This is what awaits you with us**:

- Supporting a team of payroll professionals, provide expertise and guidance seeking to develop and maintain a consistent and controlled approach to payroll processing and reporting
- The Geo Payroll Manager will rely on this position to handle day to day processing guidance as well as delegating special projects (e.g., pension, reporting, audit tasks)
- Start to end processing of Italian, Spanish and France payroll and maintain some operational responsibilities as well as utilizing a broader range of experiences and expertise across other EMEA payrolls
- Seek to establish consistency in the team’s processes as well as acting as a mentor to team members
- Acting in a lead capacity for handling both internal/external audits
- Establish and maintain a broad network of key stakeholders in seeking to build consensus with issues and process improvements
- Provide support in regional and global payroll project as required as well as with implementation of new legislative changes, updating and streamlining processes and procedure on all EMEA

**This is what we expect from you**:

- A successful finished Degree /College diploma or equivalent experience required
- Minimum of 8 years direct payroll experience in Payroll
- Strong working knowledge of global /country specific payroll tax processes and requirements (Italy, Spain, France)
- Payroll professional certification preferred (CPA, FPC, CIPP)
- The ability to highlight, escalate and recommend corrective action for risks and issues
- Ability to work / lead teams that would address complex issues involving other functions
- Being able to communicate directly to vendors / auditors and other key stakeholders with a broad range of language skills
- Experience in one or more of the following software packages would be beneficial: Outsourced payroll packages (ADP GlobalView, Streamline, Celergo etc.) SAP SuccessFactors HCM, Microsoft Office, Finance General Ledger Systems
- Verry good English and Italian language skills, both written and spoken, French or Spanish language skills would be beneficial

The gross minimum salary for this position is EUR 3.600 per month. Depending on specific qualifications and professional experience, there is opportunity to overpay.

**Discover what we have to offer you**
Our benefit package includes our support fund, additional direct insurance, grants for fitness and wellness services as well as professional training. Free underground parking spaces, good public transport connections, regular corporate events and sporting events as well as Sodexo vouchers for daily shopping in surrounding supermarkets or restaurants are further advantages that you can enjoy with us.
Take your chance at OpenText and take your next professional steps with us. We look forward to seeing you

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