Payroll Specialist

Summary

Join GoGlobal as a Payroll Specialist focusing on Spain payroll operations. You will be responsible for accurate and timely payroll processing, adhering to Spanish regulations. Key duties include processing payroll, maintaining payroll systems, computing employee pay, managing statutory filings, ensuring data accuracy, and addressing employee inquiries. This role demands expertise in Spanish payroll, statutory requirements, and strong communication skills. GoGlobal offers a remote work environment, unlimited vacation, wifi cost coverage, and an annual training allowance.

Requirements

• Possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree/Post Graduate Diploma/Professional Degree in Human Resources/Business or equivalent
• Have at least 3-5 years working experience with payroll background
• Have at least 3+ years of Spain Payroll processing experience
• Be fluent in spoken and written Spanish
• Have a deep understanding of statutory filings requirement in Spain

Responsibilities

• Process company’s payroll every pay period
• Maintain payroll processing system and records by gathering, calculating, and inputting data
• Compute employee take-home pay based on time records, benefits, and taxes
• Register/deregister countries’ statutory social benefits to the relevant local authorities
• Be responsible for statutory processing to ensure compliance per local requirements, such as monthly, quarterly, annual tax filings (requests relevant documentation from staff, computes relevant tax processing, produces required report/form for filing to tax authority and staff)
• Prepare final calculations for leavers, separation packages and all related submissions for regulatory filings as/when required
• Be responsible for ensuring that staff data is updated correctly in the employee database
• Ensure payslips are generated accurately and distributed timely to all relevant staff
• Answer staff questions about wages, deductions, attendance, and time records providing detailed breakdown if required
• Handle changes in exemptions, job status, and job titles
• Adhere to payroll policies and procedures and comply with relevant law
• Identify, investigate, and resolve discrepancies in all payroll-related tasks
• Honor confidentiality of employees’ pay records
• Complete payroll reports for record-keeping purposes or managerial review
• Support the HR operations in the country
• Serve as an escalation point for our clients’ employees and make sure their issues and concerns could be solved quickly
• Keep up-to-date with the latest HR trends and regulatory changes and communicate to the teams as applicable
• Assist in other ad hoc projects as requested

Preferred Qualifications

• Be willing to explore and learn in new area and able to work under tight schedule, can handle pressure
• Have excellent attention to detail
• Have excellent mathematical and calculation skills
• Have good verbal and written communication in English
• Have good time management to complete task assigned
• Be a good team player but able to work independently
• Have integrity, positive work attitude and of pleasant character
• Have flexibility/Start-up mindset and able to perform tasks in different area

Benefits

• Remote work
• Unlimited vacation
• Wifi cost coverage
• Annual training allowance