Payroll Specialist - EMEA Validation

And here's the exciting part - you won't just be a payroll expert; you'll also be a compliance champion and a team leader. Staying up-to-date with ever-changing federal and state payroll requirements is no small feat, but you'll rise to the challenge. Your dedication to compliance will keep us ahead of the game, ensuring that we're always on the right side of the law.

So, if you're ready to take on a rewarding role as our Payroll Specialist, join us and let's build a future where accurate payroll processing and compliance are celebrated like it deserves. Apply now and let your payroll prowess shine!

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the team coach, providing guidance, and operational leadership. Drive performance and foster service excellence across the payroll function.

• Review and approve payrolls after detailed validation, adjustments, and compliance checks performed by the payroll advisors.

• Ensure timely and accurate sign-off of pay runs in alignment with global payroll calendars.

• Manage and support Incident Management/RCA and employee Query Handling via My Kyndryl. Support cross-functional collaboration to resolve escalations and drive consistency.

• Communicate regularly with Tier 1, Tier 2, and Service Center Leads to ensure alignment of payroll practices.

• Ensure adherence to all internal controls, data privacy regulations, and statutory payroll requirements.

• Support internal and external audits by preparing and providing accurate documentation, reports, and detailed explanations related to payroll processes and controls.

• Lead and contribute to payroll transformation and simplification initiatives, with a focus on automation and process efficiency (e.g., macros, RPA tools, streamlined validations).

• Work with third-party payroll vendors to ensure service quality and adherence to SLAs.

Your Future at Kyndryl
Kyndryl has a global footprint, which means that as an HR Payroll Professional at Kyndryl, you will have opportunities to work on projects and collaborate with colleagues from around the world. This role is dynamic and influential - offering a wide range of professional and personal growth opportunities that you won't find anywhere else.

Benefits for you
Kyndryl Poland is proud to be certified last year by "Mamo Pracuj" foundation as Parents Friendly Employer.

In joining Kyndryl Poland you will work for a diverse company that invests in your future and join a team culture that amplifies learning, and development agility.

Kyndryl has a flexible working policy. Depending on the position there are a number of options including some home working opportunities. These ensure a better balance and improved flexibility both inside and outside of work for you.

Plus, we offer many other cultural and environmental benefits to our employees. From an agile office space with games room, to team dinners and seasonal gifts. As well as Charity, ESG initiatives and focus groups, where our employees co-create our new company culture strongly based on their personal feedback and sentiments.

Our employees enjoy varying other options too: utilizing our Employee Assistance Program (with online consultants in law, tax, life events, psychology); opting in for the Retirement pension plan; using their company mobile for private use; and we have a Cafeteria platform, with Kyndryl benefits points.

Of course, you can also take advantage of other great offerings:

• Private health card

• Life insurance package

• Multisport Card

• Discounts for Kyndryl employees

• A wide range of benefit options for parents and children

• Sports activities and team events

• Free language courses & many personal development possibilities

• Employee referral program

• Mindfulness and Yoga Classes

These are just a part of the initiatives and opportunities available to you, as we continuously develop as an Employer of Choice.

We are looking forward to seeing you join us!

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Who You Are

You're good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important - you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused - someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you're open and borderless - naturally inclusive in how you work with others.

Required Skills and Experience

• Knowledge about Payroll operations of countries such as Poland, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, executive payroll and global mobility.

• Hands-on experience with payroll systems, RPA, and platforms like ADP, SAP payroll and MS Excel including macros.

• High degree of professionalism and ability to communicate with various levels of management

• Good understanding of employment law, regulatory and legal compliance to meet country specific requirements

• Good problem-solving and analytical skills, sensitive to privacy and data management rules and detail orientated

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams

• High degree of professionalism and ability to communicate with various levels of management

• Good understanding of employment law, regulatory and legal compliance to meet country specific requirements

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or business and MBA in human resources

• 10+ years of progressive experience in global payroll operations.

Being You

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it's how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we're not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you - and everyone next to you - the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That's the Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect

With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter - wherever you are in your life journey. Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations. At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.

Get Referred!

If you know someone that works at Kyndryl, when asked 'How Did You Hear About Us' during the application process, select 'Employee Referral' and enter your contact's Kyndryl email address.

Client-provided location(s): Flexible / Remote, Wroclaw, Poland

Job ID: Kyndryl-R-43279

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-08-11T15:35:03