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Payroll Advisor

Madrid - Gran Via, Spain

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Status Employee - Permanent

Category Finance

Date posted April 4, 2025

JOB DESCRIPTION

Payroll Advisor

Payroll Advisor
Because our tomorrow is in your hands.
Payroll, our way.

Payroll at Primark
What’s a career at Primark all about? The positive impact you’re making, the experiences you’re having and the people you’re with. You’re our inspiration. Embrace what sets you apart, own your career and develop in ways you never expected. Leave your mark. And do it your way.

What You’ll Do as a Payroll Advisor
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:
  • Working closely with the payroll team and payroll provider to deliver payroll.
  • Preparation and checking of high-volume payrolls to help ensure that employees are paid accurately and on time.
  • Working flexibly to set deadlines.
  • Following detailed payroll checking procedures across all areas such as report production, payroll checking and correction, sickness processing, etc.
  • Maintaining an allocation of stores by processing information received from People and Culture teams and providing an excellent service to all our customers.
  • Learning and applying current Spanish and Portuguese labour laws, Primark collective agreement regulations and Primark rules on calculating and entering company & statutory payments.
  • Dealing with correspondence enquiries in a timely and efficient manner from stores, payroll provider, wider global payroll team, authorities and other third parties.
  • Processing timely payment of monthly salary payments in compliance with tax and social security law conditions.
  • Preparation and checking extra payment payrolls, statutory payments, and special payments under collective bargaining agreement law.
  • Management of manual payments using Excel templates
  • Administration tasks such as post payroll reconciliations and reporting for wider business.
  • Writing and producing reports using a reporting system and using MS Excel to carry out some day-to-day duties.
  • Learning new tasks associated with payroll processing and systems with a view to role development.
  • In due course taking on additional responsibility for other tasks performed by the team (for example, international payroll support).
What You’ll Bring
Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:
  • 1-2 Years of experience within Spanish or Portuguese Payroll
  • Very good knowledge of current labour law.
  • Successful candidates should be degree in labour relations, business Administration or related studies, be analytical, accurate and flexible and be comfortable working in a busy environment.
  • Successful candidate will have intermediate MS Excel skills, previous experience handling accounting and ERP software.
  • Ideally candidate should have intermediate English-speaking skills.
  • A competent team player with a positive attitude.
  • Organised with good attention to detail.
  • Motivated by ensuring high standards of performance and quality of work achieved.
  • Able to work in a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining accuracy.
Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours.

About Primark
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.

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All offers of employment are subject to background checks, including right to work, reference education and for some roles criminal, and financial checks. If you have any concerns, please reach out to our talent acquisition team to discuss.
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