Payroll Specialist (Vendor Management)
On-siteAsturias, Central Visayas, Philippines
Job Summary
Manage payroll administration and day-to-day operations for France, coordinating inputs, processing, validations, and outputs with vendors and internal stakeholders. Validate data, statutory calculations, social contributions, and reporting while ensuring compliance with French legislation, tax requirements, and collective bargaining agreements. Partner with HR, Finance, Legal, and regional leadership to support employee lifecycle events, review exceptions, and resolve discrepancies. Maintain documentation, process maps, and controls; participate in testing, implementation, and process improvement initiatives. Support Day 1 readiness for France during the transition to a standalone organization. This role reports to the Regional Payroll Manager EMEA.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated payroll experience supporting France payroll operations
- Strong knowledge of French payroll legislation, tax requirements, social contributions, statutory reporting, and country-specific payroll obligations
- Experience supporting payroll operations within unionized, labor-intensive, or employee representative environments
- Experience working with collective bargaining agreements, labor unions, Works Councils, employee representative bodies, or similar workforce governance structures
- Experience partnering with outsourced payroll providers or payroll vendors
- Strong payroll controls, compliance, issue resolution, and problem-solving capability
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Fluency in French and strong business English
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting payroll operations within manufacturing, food ingredients, specialty chemicals, life sciences, or industrial environments
- Experience with ADP, TMF, Workday, or similar payroll and HR technology platforms
- Experience supporting carve-outs, business separations, mergers, acquisitions, or transformation initiatives
- Experience working within a multi-country or regional payroll operating model
- Experience supporting payroll process improvement, automation, documentation, or standardization initiatives
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