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Payroll Specialist for Lerum Municipality

Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural surroundings with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 inhabitants but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is located just a 20-minute drive from Gothenburg and is currently facing a period of intense development with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle has recently named Lerum the winner in the category of large municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities regarding, among other things, schools, healthcare and social care, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business life, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. We are now a Super Municipality!

We are now looking for a Payroll Specialist to join us at Lerum Municipality. As a Payroll Specialist, you will be part of a team consisting of five other colleagues and a Payroll Manager. We warmly welcome your application!

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Responsibilities

As a Payroll Specialist, you will work with the entire payroll process. Your main responsibilities include ongoing payroll administration, support and information to the municipality's managers and employees, contact with authorities, as well as interpretation and application of laws and agreements. We work against deadlines, and during certain periods of the month, we have workload peaks that we handle together in the best possible way.

We apply annual working hours and the possibility of holiday exchange, and we value that our employees can combine work and leisure/parenthood in a sustainable way.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have experience in payroll work and good knowledge of the entire payroll process. You have a relevant two-year higher vocational education (KY/YH) or equivalent education assessed by the employer as equivalent.

We see that you have experience with the payroll system Heroma and have previously worked with payroll administration within municipal operations. Experience in interpreting and applying laws, agreements, and regulations is highly meritorious. If you also have knowledge of municipal collective agreements, we see this as a big plus.

Great importance is attached to personal suitability.

To succeed in the role, you are structured, meticulous, and have a good ability to plan and organize your work in an efficient manner. You enjoy collaborating with others and contribute to a positive work climate through an egalitarian approach and a desire to develop together with colleagues.

We value that you are solution-oriented and have the ability to see opportunities even when faced with challenges or changed conditions. Since the operations are in a constant state of development, it is important that you are flexible, adaptable, and open to new ways of working.

You also have good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

Employment type: Permanent position.

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our management is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and develop the individual, operations, and society positively. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and offensive treatment.

We value a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee, you will have access to a number of benefits, such as a health allowance and employee welfare programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: https://lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use a personal Bank-ID in the job for authentication in, for example, system logins or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

We warmly welcome your application!

In connection with this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers regarding competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.