Senior Specialist Payroll, Iberia (Part-time)

Overview

A leading global tire manufacturer is seeking a Senior Payroll Specialist for the Iberia region on a part-time basis (20 hours per week). This role is responsible for ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing for Spain and Portugal. The position reports to the Payroll Manager Europe South, based in France, and plays a key role in maintaining payroll excellence, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end monthly payroll processing for Spain and Portugal, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with local regulations and collective bargaining agreements.
• Validate payroll inputs such as hires, terminations, changes, bonuses, leaves, allowances, and shifts.
• Reconcile payroll outputs from external providers.
• Serve as the primary contact for external payroll vendors, overseeing service quality, SLAs, escalations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with labor law, social security, taxation, and internal payroll controls.
• Support internal and external audits related to payroll.
• Prepare, analyze, and validate monthly payroll reports for HR, Finance, and management.
• Provide expert support to employees, HR Business Partners, Finance, HRIS, and Legal on payroll, benefits, taxation, and time & attendance matters.
• Drive process improvements, standardization, and digitalization of payroll activities, aligning with global standards where applicable.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 5 years payroll experience in Spain; experience with Portugal payroll is a strong advantage.
• Strong knowledge of Spanish labor law, social security, taxation, and payroll compliance.
• Proven experience working with external payroll providers such as ADP, SD Worx, or similar.
• Solid experience with HRIS and payroll systems (e.g., Workday, SAP HR, Meta4) with advanced Excel skills preferred.
• High attention to detail, strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills, service orientation, and confidentiality.
• Fluency in Spanish and English.

Compensation & Benefits

Details regarding compensation and benefits will be provided during the recruitment process.

Location

This role supports payroll for Spain and Portugal and reports to a manager based in France. The position is part-time (20 hours per week).

Equal Opportunity

The employer is an equal opportunity organization. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.