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2193 - Payroll Specialist

Permanent • Luxembourg

2193 - Payroll Specialist

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You know payroll inside out, but you also want a role where your expertise matters in a fast-moving business, not just in routine administration. This opportunity is for a Payroll Expert to join a major international industrial group in Luxembourg, within an HR Shared Services environment supporting a complex employee population and a demanding compensation and benefits agenda. It is an attractive next step for a payroll professional who wants visibility, autonomy, hands-on impact, and exposure to transformation in a business where payroll operations, SAP payroll knowledge, and Luxembourg payroll expertise are critical.

Your role

You will step into a key payroll position at a pivotal time and help stabilize, secure, and improve payroll operations in Luxembourg.

  • Manage end-to-end payroll activities in a complex Luxembourg environment
  • Act as a point of contact for employees on payroll, compensation, and benefits topics
  • Handle tax and social security declarations, year-end obligations, and payroll compliance matters
  • Support international assignment topics such as split payroll, A1 requests, and foreign authority declarations
  • Maintain payroll data and documentation in SAP HR or similar HRIS tools
  • Contribute to reporting, analysis, process improvement, and payroll-related HR transformation projects
  • Work closely with HR, internal stakeholders, and external authorities in Luxembourg and abroad

Your profile

  • 3 to 6 years of payroll experience in Luxembourg
  • Strong understanding of Luxembourg payroll, tax, and social security rules
  • Good knowledge of SAP payroll, SAP HR, or a similar HRIS environment
  • Experience in an industrial, international, or complex business setting is a strong advantage
  • Comfortable working in a changing environment with shifting priorities and ongoing transformation
  • Hands-on, detail-oriented, and able to combine accuracy with a service mindset
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work with different internal and external stakeholders
  • Fluency in French and English is required
  • SAP
  • HRIS
  • Payroll
  • Hands-on
  • Details-oriented
  • Communication

GOTOfreedom consultant’s point of view

This is a strong career move for a payroll professional who wants to be more than a processor and become a real expert in payroll operations, compliance, and continuous improvement. You will join a business where your payroll knowledge will be valued immediately, where you can learn from a complex Luxembourg environment, and where you can build visibility across HR shared services, compensation and benefits, and project work.