Payroll Operations Specialist

Payroll Operations Specialist
Permanent
Vilnius

Are you focused on optimizing financial processes and uncovering data-driven insights? Do you thrive on enhancing efficiency, promoting continuous improvement, and simplifying complex workflows? If you're ready to create meaningful changes, this opportunity is for you!

Join our Payroll and People Master Data team in Vilnius 

We are seeking a Payroll Operations Specialist who is focused on enhancing financial data integrity, refining reporting systems, and promoting process efficiency. This role is based at the company's global headquarters in Lyngby, serving as the hub for its international activities. Here you will be part of the Payroll and People Master Data team, which provides specialized services within payroll and payroll related service in the entire group. You will also collaborate with teams across the Nordic region, Lithuania, and other international locations.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for:

• Execute end-to-end mobility payroll in close cooperation with the relevant subject matter expert, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery.
• Provide support in a range of pre-payroll tasks, including data validation, control checks, and preparation of payroll input.
• Assist in the execution of payroll runs, ensuring all processes adhere to internal controls and statutory requirements.
• Administer and manage collective agreements, including documentation, reporting, and payout processes.
• Monitor and follow up on time registration to ensure readiness for a accurate payroll processing.
• Support the reconciliation of payroll-related accounts, ensuring alignment between payroll outputs and financial postings.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future 

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways, but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

Furthermore, you should have:

• Extensive experience with SAP payroll processes (2+ years); experience with expatriate payroll is a strong advantage.
• Proven track record in executing payroll operations with a high degree of accuracy and structure.
• Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, including subject matter experts and service providers.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with payroll data, reconciliations, and controls.
• High level of integrity, discretion, and commitment to data confidentiality.

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. That is why we say no to fossil-based projects and aspire to have 100 per cent of our revenue come from activities that move our customers towards sustainability.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America and India, we are currently 7,300 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

• Private health insurance after the probation period
• Accident insurance from the first day of your employment
• Hybrid way of working
• 1 extra day off after birthday
• Other benefits, such as: new and modern office space, various COWI partners discounts and offers, social initiatives and corporate events.

Salary for this position ranges from 2900-3800 EUR before taxes. We believe in your professional capability therefore the final offer will be based on your competencies and experience.

Got more questions?

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to our Head of Payroll, Payroll and People Master Data, Alexander Wirgowitsch at maww@cowi.com.

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to do and what life is like at COWI.

Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key.

We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.