Payroll Specialist

Field of work: Human Resources

Posting Date: 10 May 2024

Location: Ballerup 2750, Denmark, Denmark
Contract type: Permanent
Job ID: 1989

Are you a payroll guru with a deep understanding of labor law and trade union regulations? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy working with numbers? We are seeking a talented Payroll Specialist to join our team and make a significant impact in our organization!

LEO Pharma has embarked on an ambitious journey to become the preferred dermatology care partner improving people’s lives around the world – and that is why we need you!

Your role
As a Payroll Specialist, you will be responsible for delivering best-in-class Payroll services with a human touch.

You will be responsible for executing payroll processes in few countries while acting as back up for any of the other countries handled in the team, if needed.

The Payroll Specialist position will involve executing the three phases of Payroll Runs successfully, controlled by the global Payroll Checklist. This includes:

PRE-Payroll

• Control data input for payroll runs through hrX (Alight), Benefit platform, time and attendance systems and Employee Central and other local/global systems
• Process claims
• Perform benefit reconciliation
• Calculate compensation, rewards, and bonuses to employees
• Control and audit data entry of HR Operations and submit garnishments to our payroll vendors

Payroll run

• Check gross to net calculations
• Process advance payments, negative salary, rejected payments, underpayments, overpayments etc.
• Approve payroll calculation and checklist and submit to team lead for approval
• Upload file in the bank if the country does not follow the global process

POST-Payroll

• Handle issues with Finance as part of the GL posting
• Administer vendor agreement and SLAs/service credits
• Execute and distribute standard reports to internal- and external stakeholders
• Provide statistics and statutory reports to government offices, etc.

The Payroll specialist will also be focusing on Payroll Service Enhancement, analyzing the need and raising change requests for expanding/reducing/modifying the services we receive from our payroll outsourcing partners; analyzing, defining and submitting new pay components and work schedules; participating in UAT (User Acceptance Testing) of new pay components, work schedules and overall enhancements of both payroll process & service; and defining payroll controls.

Your qualifications
To succeed in this role, we imagine that you have the following qualifications:

• Preferably 3 years of experience within Payroll
• Shared Services mindset, where best practices and global process optimisation is continuously in focus
• Knowledge and general understanding of HR Annual Wheel processes and the ability to execute for the LEO organization in general through digital tools and processes
• High understanding of employment law & employee relations in general, as well as GDPR and compliance concepts and practices
• Must be able comfortable with working in many different IT systems and finding solutions for using these to improve the daily work
• As a minimum Professional Working Proficiency (C1) in English is required. Preferably working proficiency in one more language, depending on the countries the Payroll Specialist is primarily working with

Your new team
You will join a busy but skilled, dedicated, humorous and helpful specialist team. High quality, attention to details and willingness to help each other is our keys to success.

Beyond the skin
At LEO Pharma, we help people with skin diseases live fulfilling lives by advancing dermatology beyond the skin. We drive dermatology with our knowledge, collaboration, and curiosity, and we are at the forefront of science in developing new medicines. For us, pioneering together is about constantly improving and extending what’s possible for each other, our company, and our patients.

At LEO Pharma, we believe that our different perspectives, backgrounds, and attitudes are what enable us to make the best decisions, foster an inclusive culture, and meet the needs of the market we operate in. Therefore, we encourage you to apply for the position if you are excited about the role – even if you don’t meet every single requirement listed, you might be just the pioneer we are looking for. We believe in flexibility in all aspects - also when it comes to supporting our employees' diverse needs, hence, we offer hybrid work opportunities whenever possible.

For certain positions, LEO Pharma might complete a background check conducted by a third party.