Global Payroll is a dynamic community of payroll professionals, strategist and problem solvers, we each play a unique role together with our partners, to ensure accurate, timely and compliant pay at high standards, enabling Shell’s business objectives through flexibility, standardization, simplicity and actionable insights.

Payroll Specialist is an exciting opportunity for you to utilize your payroll administrative experience, stakeholder engagement and end to end process thinking capabilities, while developing a wider understanding of policy and process delivery driven by legislative requirements impacting pay delivery and compliance.

• You will be reporting to the Payroll Operations Manager, part of (SBO) Payroll Services Netherlands with no direct reports.

• Population supported is the complete payroll population of The Netherlands including employees on overseas assignments and Board of Directors, hence round 10.000 employees and 1,3 billion in Payroll Expense annually.

• You will be closely collaborating with teams in HR Operations, HR Policy & Benefits Teams, Finance, Legal and Employment Tax.

• Execution and support the delivery of payroll processes managed in SBO, working closely with the Payroll Team (Performance Shares, GESPP, Foreign Working Day Corrections, Shadow Payroll, Manual Payments, Tax Statements)

• Case management of simple and complex payroll queries applying FIFO mindset in Salesforce and handling sensitive information

• Partnering with the Payroll Specialists and the Payroll Controllers to ensure continuous improvement initiatives as a result of payroll accuracy are addressed

• Ensuring upskilling sessions to HR Operations as part of the Payroll Academy are delivered and all materials are kept evergreen

• Active participating in Local and Global Projects (Policy changes, HR Transformation, Global Payroll Strategy implementation)

• Actively building and managing good partnership with stakeholders

• Perform effectively with customer focus in a culturally diverse environment

• Need to prioritize across varied and dynamic projects and workload with respect to several deadlines

• Robust knowledge of HR Systems: SAP, Workday, A-Pro, Salesforce and MS Office package (Power Point, Excel)

• Strong continuous improvement mindset (CI certificates preferred)

• Demonstrated highest standards (accuracy, timeliness to ensure compliance with internal and external regulations)

• Data Mining and Analytics utilizing large data sets to drive control & compliance

• E2E Process Thinking across the Payroll IT ecosystem

• Ability to collaboratively work with Global and Local Teams to deliver clear results

• Solid verbal and written communication skills required including business writing skills in English while interacting with employees and business partners on simple and complex payroll related queries are essential

• Demonstrated interest and ambition to grow in the payroll profession

• Flexibility to periodically work outside of normal office hours