People & Culture Specialist

Company Description
Would you like to (pay)roll with us?
At IKEA, we like people who like people. You can already see this in our vision: “To create a better everyday life for the many people”. At our People & Culture department, you find the most passionate of us. We work with attracting, recruiting, and developing people, and ensuring a great candidate, co-worker and manager experience, based on our culture and values. Right now, the payroll & solution team at People & Culture at IKEA of Sweden, is looking for a People & Culture Specialist within the area of Payroll. Could this be you? Would you like to (pay)roll with us?
Älmhult is the home to IKEA of Sweden. Here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers all over the world. At IKEA of Sweden, you will work in a truly international and dynamic environment. You will have different opportunities to learn new skills and where the goal always is to create a better everyday life for the many people.
Job Description
To be successful as a P&C specialist within payroll, you should be able to investigate and resolve payroll issues and ensure strict compliance with company and regulatory standards. An outstanding payroll specialist should also have excellent people skills and a high numerical aptitude.
In the role as P&C Specialist you will:
Work with company database programs to process payroll.
Maintain personnel database regarding salaries.
Prepare reports to relevant departments about payroll, company budget and expense.
Prepare periodic payroll reports for review by management.
Join monthly payroll service review meetings (running or new CRs, upcoming releases, reports etc. and represent all legal units in Sweden together with payroll team manager).
Provide payroll expertise towards payroll specialists in Community of Expertise team.
Support towards organization – a shared responsibility in the team).
Furthermore, you will contribute with setting processes and delivering payroll expertise. You act as the owner of the HR Payroll system (HRx) and create payroll support. You are first line contact with Alight our Payroll vendor and securing change requests to the Inter IKEA organizations (IIG).
Finance and Pension single point of contact including report issues.
Securing local integration issues are correctly handled between our payroll provider and other applications/systems, for example TEC, Rydoo, and Benify.

Qualifications
We are looking for you who, together with us, wants to bring people and business together and ensure that we offer an excellent place for everybody to work and to develop. And by the way if you have had experience with HR-IT digitalisation, even better. We´d like to see that you:
Have an associate's or bachelor's degree in business or accounting or equivalent education preferred.
Are self-driven, able to work independently and are motivated in finding new solutions, but also like collaborating in a team.
Have proven experience in a payroll position in a fast-paced environment required.
Possess strong computer literacy including Microsoft Office applications
Are structured and organized with a hands-on approach - you make things happen in a simple way.
Feel passion for people and business and like to work in a complex, constantly changing, international environment.
Are fluent in both spoken and written English

Additional information
Does this sound like your next challenge?
Please send us your application in English – CV and motivation letter – no later than 27th Apr. 2022. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact hiring manager Team Manager Payroll & Solution Support Peter Gaudig at peter.gaudig@inter.ikea.com. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Katie Pettersson on +46 702 99 42 48.
We are looking forward to your application!