Join Our Team as a Payroll Specialist

Location: Porto, Hipercentro Areosa Business Park

Contract: Fixed term contract

Benefits:

• Hybrid working model

• Annual performance bonus

• Private Health Insurance 

• Enjoy your birthday off!

• Enjoy 24 December!

• Additional holidays = 2 extra days after completing first year of employment & 1 extra post 3 rd year (total 25 days) 

• Career development support getting involved in all phases of the global project lifecycle, and through 1:1 and tools such as unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, Excel, and Language courses on-site 

• Dynamic multi-cultural environment (23 nationalities, 12 languages)

• Employee Assistance Programme 

• 1 Day paid volunteering

• Modern office facilities (social, dining, and relaxing areas)

• Various discounts across retailers and services

What’s the role about?

GKN Automotive has created a Payroll Shared Service team in its Porto office supporting the EMEA region.

This role will directly have responsibility for Portuguese Payroll which is processed as a managed service with our Payroll partner. In addition, the role would also have responsibility for the UK payroll, though no prior UK experience is required. The role will involve supporting end to end payroll administration, working with the business and the partner to ensure accurate and timely payrolls on a monthly basis. Working with the team to establish documented procedures for the newly set up processing team which can be applied to future integrations.

What you'll do?

• End to end monthly payroll processing including input delivery, output and audit checks.

• Collation of data to be provided timely to the Payroll partner at agreed cut off dates for processing.

• Working through a full set of monthly checks, gross to gross, net to net, understanding and resolving discrepancies and justifying differences.

• Managing post payroll activities including any local statutory filing and payment reconciliations

• Works with the local business partners to ensure data is delivered accurately and on time to the Payroll Provider

• Responding to employee questions and resolving queries and issues in a professional and timely manner.

• Support report requests from HR partners, managers, and Finance to ensure they have the correct data to complete necessary downstream tasks.

• Working with internal and external audit teams as needed.

• Provide fast and responsive support for “emergency” situations that may arise.

• Work on the development of the Oracle integration to the Payroll partner software.

What are we looking for?

• Strong familiarity with Portuguese payroll legislation.

• Experience handling monthly payroll related filings (Tax and Social Security)

• Experience in liaising with the Tax and Social Security agencies and the associated online portals.

• Experience of working in a Payroll managed service environment.

• Good knowledge of cyclical Payroll processing including the ability to work to deadlines with total accuracy

• Experience of working with stakeholders in different countries

• Ability to analyze complex data sets for gaps, inconsistency, and errors.

• Analytical ability, as evidenced by the proven ability to interpret data in lay language.

• Minimum 3+ years’ experience of Portugal payroll processing.

• Fluency in verbal and written Portuguese & English

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GKN Automotive in Porto:

Established in 2020, our Global Business Services (GBS) is located at the heart of Porto (Hipercentro Areosa Business Park), where our 300+ employees provide support on a global level within areas of Finance, Procurement, HR and IT (to name a few). Our workplace is diverse and inclusive and our locally based team is represented by individuals from 23 different countries. Our culture is underpinned by our Values & Behaviours – Ingenious, Collaborative, Driven, Principled.

NOTE: Please submit your resume in English because not all our people managers speak Portuguese – and we are an international environment so English is our business language.

We understand some applicants are less likely to apply to jobs unless they feel they meet every single qualification. Well we all need the opportunity to grow and develop in a role. The team at GKN Automotive would encourage you to apply if our advert has taken your interest, rather than ruling yourself out based on any self-limiting beliefs. You never know, you may be exactly who we’re looking for!

Why not join us and Accelerate the future

Disclaimer: GKN Automotive does not accept agency resumes unless directly engaged by Talent Acquisition. Please do not forward any resumes to our employees. GKN Automotive will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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