Nordic Payroll Specialist

The IFS payroll process is outsourced to a global company, CloudPay, and currently includes 33 payrolls in 23 countries. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the processing of payrolls are completed in an accurate and timeous manner. They will also be required to work closely with key stakeholders across the business including HRSSC, HRIS, Finance, and internal/ external audit.

As our Nordic Payroll Executive you be a part of our  Global Payroll Team who are based in Colombo, Sri Lanka where we strongly believe that working hard and having fun are two compatible elements. 

This role has some specific regular tasks but also has many ad hoc tasks.

Tasks include but are not limited to:

1. Oversight of the payrolls assigned to you
2. Collect, compile and enter employee status changes, new hires, terminations, and payroll data and upload data to CloudPay.
3. Investigate, reconcile, and correct payroll data issues, discrepancies and errors
4. Timely and accurately prepare on-demand checks for terminations, retro-adjustments and other disbursements determined to be necessary for immediate distribution
5. Complete the payroll report checks on time and provide them to the Global Payroll Team Lead for approval
6. Management of the Nordic pension & insurance administration
7. Management of social security reporting with external service providers
8. Management of the Swedish benefit platform “Benify”
9. SSB statistic reporting
10. Management of the Nordic expenses
11. Working in Nordic payrolls is essential, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience, 
12. EMEA experience an advantage
13. CloudPay/ADP/other systems Global payroll exposure an advantage

• University Degree (BA/BSc) or Payroll Professional Certified.

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.