Senior Payroll Specialist

535246BR

**Why Kyndryl**

Our world has never been more alive with opportunities and, at Kyndryl, we’re ready to seize them. We design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl is at the heart of progress — dedicated to helping companies and people grow strong. Our people are actively discovering, co-creating, and strengthening. We push ourselves and each other to seek better, to go further, and we carry this energy to our customers. At Kyndryl, we want you to keep growing, and we’ll provide plenty of opportunities to make that happen.

**Your Role and Responsibilities**

**Your Role and Responsibilities**

This role encompasses various activities to ensure smooth, timely and accurate payroll operations, compliant with Kyndryl regulations as well as local legal requirements. This involves working closely with Kyndryl employees as well as members of other teams.

**Responsibilities**:

- Execute payroll related activity to ensure timely and accurate payment to Kyndryl employees.
- Supervise and coordinate execute statutory reporting for payroll, taxation.
- Ensure timely delivery of services in line with payroll cycles.
- Perform appropriate controls on payroll transactions to ensure accuracy and auditability of payroll.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting to management
- Keep updates about the process changes in payroll.
- Ensure all back-up documentation is stored as per the Kyndryl and legal record retention rules.
- Manage payroll vendor: ensure contract and PO are in place, monitor PO, validate invoices, and participate in regular service call/meeting with the vendor.
- Keep management informed and up to date about the work progress and share all relevant information timely and precisely.
- Support process improvement initiatives
- Support projects
- Back-up colleagues whenever needed (planned or unplanned absence)

Knowledge Management:

- Cross-train with other team members to develop sound knowledge of all the specific entities to ensure a proper back-up system is in place.

General areas:

- Perform in a timely manner all HR related tasks (e.g. claiming, holidays) as well as those tasks coming from internal guidelines of Kyndryl (e.g. completion of mandatory trainings, Checkpoint, etc.)
- Support clean desk policy.
- Commitment to participate in those trainings the management consider suitable for professional development.
- Take on and perform other tasks the management assigns beside the regular and day to day tasks.
**What we can offer**:

- Competitive salary
- Health/insurance related benefits (private health insurance, pension plan contribution, life insurance)
- Flexible benefit elements
- Commuting and relocation support
- International environment
- Development and career opportunities
**Required Professional and Technical Expertise**:

- Has experience in a complex administrative process
- Develops knowledge of department, Business Unit and overall business strategy with a view to operating as a knowledge expert.
- Focusing on individual/team/department and operational objectives and developing professional effectiveness
- Drives and delivers small projects within the department
- Respond to clients' calls and requests quickly, completely, and accurately
- Has payroll experience - minimum 3 years

Communication:

- Fluency in Dutch or French & English
- Ability to articulate and compare alternative approaches.
- Produces clear, informative and conclusive reports making specific recommendations for improvement.
- Shares work updates with the team and the management with a view to improving processes
- Draws upon professional concepts to collaborate with others to carry out assigned duties
- Focuses on achieving excellence in customer satisfaction through both verbal and written communication
- Drives good team work through clear and proactive communication and cooperation

Problem Solving:

- Identifies, understands and recognizes job-related problems.
- Evaluates causes using existing techniques or tools.
- Recommends improvements to processes and procedures.
- Challenges the validity of procedures and processes with the intent to enhance and improve
- Proposes and implements efficiency improvements

Business Controls:

- Ensure compliance with Business Controls requirements and Data Privacy requirements
- Act to minimize the impact of bureaucracy and inefficiency in the workflow within the Business Controls framework.

Impact on Business / Scope
- Is accountable for accurate delivery / customer satisfaction.
- Delivers according to the processes and delivery schedules

Contribution
- Works under minimum level of supervision
- Ensures that all communications with clients are concluded to a high standard.
- Highlights any customer satisfaction or Business Controls issues as required.
- Is responsible for managing queries in a professional and detailed manner.
- Actively supports good teamwork through clear com