Team Manager - Payroll & Solution Support

Company Description
Can you really reach out to the whole world, creating a better everyday life for the many people? In Älmhult, Sweden you can. Älmhult is 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.
We are now looking for a dedicated colleague to join us in the People & Culture Community of Expertise department. We enable and support all Inter IKEA Group entities in Sweden through the People & Culture community and managers to secure employment in compliance with payroll and solution support, applicable laws, regulations, co-worker relations, work environment and mobility expertise. We also have the assignment to secure common national P&C Experience frame agreements, policies, processes, guidelines, and work routines as well as global regulation when applicable.
We offer a challenging and inspiring role where you will have the possibility to be a part of a great team working together to support the business in the best possible way. You will find a small and motivated team working together to deliver our expertise and supporting the P&C community in Sweden.
Come join us!
Job Description
We are now looking for a Team Manager - Payroll & Solution Support to join us in the People & Culture Community of Expertise department. This position is a strong contributor to make us at IKEA become an even greater place to work tomorrow. Someone who enjoys being close to the business as well as helping people to grow and develop.
This role is in the People & Culture Community of Expertise, a part of the IKEA of Sweden AB, that offers P&C competence to all Inter IKEA Group companies in Sweden.
The Payroll & Solution Support assignment supports our People & Culture in the core payroll processes and Compensation & Benefits in partnership with external payroll provider.
You will find a team of Payroll specialists and Payroll administrators with national super user assignment in Workday/Workday Time, Benify portal, HRx and MedHelp.
You will report to the People & Culture Community of Expertise manager.

In this role you will lead a small team of six co-workers as well as lead the payroll network and take a major role in competence & benefit questions for Inter IKEA in Sweden. You will be responsible for the vendor management within your area.
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 (My Support/Service Now), securing change requests to the Inter IKEA organisations (IIG).
As Team Manager you are accountable for bringing people and business together to create excellent and sustainable performance. In this role you will actively contribute to the growth of business by ensuring that the People and Culture strategies are translated into action by working in partnership.
Assignment:
Being partner to stakeholders within P&C community in payroll related questions and tasks
Maintain and manage vendors and systems related to the payroll assignment and thereby being first point of contact for our external payroll provider
Leading Payroll network for IIG SE
Leading the development of the IIG benefits offer together with stakeholders and vendors
Secure deliverables to third parties such as government and tax authorities
Lead the team closely to deliver on common goals and tasks
Develop routines and find better ways of working to contribute to the development of the Community of expertise assignment
Co-operate cross functionally within the Community of expertise when needed to succeed in common business priorities
Co-operate close with INGKA in common scopes and tasks

Qualifications
As a Team Manager Payroll, you need thorough experience of working within the area of Payroll, Vendor Management and Compensation & Benefits.
We are looking for a confident leader with experience in developing co-workers.
We expect that you have broad experience in developing ways of working and lead a team that give a great service support towards stakeholders.
Knowledge of HR processes, Swedish laws and regulations is required and understanding of local collective labour agreements are an advantage.
As a person you are humble together with a great willpower.
You are business minded and with a high ability to drive change and take on responsibilities.
You like to work in a changing environment.
You will need to take initiatives, interact with stakeholders, lead activities and be structured.
You need to have the ability to identify, analyse and propose improvements.
As a person you are a good communicator, service minded and a creative problem solver.
Fluency in English (written and spoken) is a must together with excellent skills of Microsoft office.

Additional information
Sounds interesting?
The position is based in Älmhult and start date as soon as possible.
Please send us your application in English CV and motivation letter – no later than Jan.2nd, 2022. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you would be a good fit. 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 regarding the position, please contact the People and Culture Community of Expertise ManagerSamar Perez Lennart at samar.perez.lennart@inter.ikea.com If you have questions regarding recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Katie Pettersson on +46 702 99 42 48.
We are looking forward to your application!