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Payroll Team Lead

  • Hybrid
    • Cluj, Romania
  • Human resources

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Payroll Team Lead! Join us to drive the outsourcing, change and implementation of a new external payroll service provider across Europe Region. In addition, oversee the deployment of a unified time and attendance tracking system (TATS) tailored to meet the diverse needs of our affiliates.

Your main task will be:

  • Manage payroll and TATS project phases: initiation, planning, execution, control, monitoring, and closing.

  • Ensure all deliverables and milestones for payroll transition are actioned, approved, and updated.

  • Act as a project liaison for HR, Finance, and DIT managers in EU markets, ensuring effective communication.

  • Lead the project team and coordinate activities with country and vendor representatives.

  • Capture and develop new knowledge, leading standardization, elimination, and automation activities.

  • Lead regional and local discussions for time and payroll transformation.

  • Generate status reports and escalate issues to the Core team and HR Leadership Team (HRLT).

  • Provide solutions to business and system challenges within the project team.

  • Build and lead the project plan, executing milestones, testing, training, go-live, hyper-care, and handover.

  • Contribute to contract creation with payroll vendors, collaborating with the Procurement team.

  • Create scope of services and RASCI between vendor, project, HR, Finance, and other stakeholders.

  • Ensure new payroll processes and TATS comply with European and local regulations.

  • Develop escalation processes and risk management plans.

  • Manage the transition from each market to the vendor, including knowledge transfer and change management.

  • Collaborate with Procurement, Finance, SSC, DIT, and HR to ensure outsourcing processes align with project scope and structure.

Job requirements

  • Expert in project and change management principles and practices

  • Experience with working at/for a Shared Service Center

  • Experience in payroll vendor´s change, outsourcing and implementing payroll and HR systems, and has own experience in handling end to end payroll processing and high-volume payroll 

  • Deep understanding of payroll processes and European legal requirements

  • Strong ability and experience to manage complex projects and work with cross-functional and international teams.

  • Excellent interpersonal skills and very strong stakeholder and vendor management

  • Ability to adapt to different corporate cultures and local regulations.

  • Understanding of general principles around setting up contract with vendor(s) and how to apply these principles together with Procurement team

  • Ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from HR, payroll, financial and numerical material.

  • Effectively communicating and presenting complex HR, payroll, financial and IT data (both verbally and written) to influence all levels and global audiences; helps others understand these data and translate it into actionable business insights.

  • Fluent in English

Hybrid
  • Cluj, Cluj, Romania
Human resources

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What you can expect :

At tesa, we create adhesive solutions that improve the work, products and lives of our customers.

How we do it? At tesa, we dare to create! Therefore, we team up, we challenge our-selves and we set the pace. But we don’t just do that somehow. We act responsibly and always focus on our customers. Because only then we are able to achieve our goals and continuously improve our results.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and regard diversity as important for our long-term success. We expressly reject all forms of direct and indirect discrimination. All qualified applicants will be equally considered for employment regardless of their national origin, background, personal preferences and beliefes.

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