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Do you want to ensure that salaries are paid correctly, on time, and with high quality? Do you thrive in a role where service, precision, and development go hand in hand? Then this might be the right opportunity for you. On the HR department in Södertälje Municipality, a team of just over forty people works to provide support in payroll and employer issues to all operations within the municipality. As our current Payroll Specialist is retiring, we are looking for a new star to become a key cog in our team, helping to further develop our processes into a modern payroll function.

Your Responsibilities

As a Payroll Specialist, you work to ensure correct, legally secure, and efficient payroll administration. You provide support to managers and employees via phone and case management regarding questions related to salary, absence, pension, and employment terms. You review and handle employment documentation, ensure that data is registered correctly and followed up on, and issue various types of certificates, for example for loan applications and unemployment benefits.

The role also involves contributing to the development, follow-up, and quality assurance of payroll processes and routines. A prioritized part of the assignment is to participate in mapping and developing processes to create a more efficient, sustainable, and quality-assured payroll administration. The role also involves contributing to the procurement and implementation of a new payroll system.

Who are you?

You are a confident and service-oriented person with a good understanding of the importance of the payroll process for the business. You work in a structured, meticulous, and quality-conscious manner, while also having the ability to prioritize and handle multiple issues in parallel. You thrive in a supportive role where you have many contact points and can communicate clearly and professionally with both managers and employees.

We would like you to have an interest in development and improvement work, and to contribute with a solution-oriented and responsible work approach. You easily adapt to routines and systems, see connections in processes, and want to be part of developing a modern, sustainable, and quality-assured payroll administration.

Requirements:

• Experience in payroll administration, preferably in a larger organization.
• Experience working with collective agreements.
• Upper secondary education in economics, administration, or other education that the employer deems equivalent.
• Vocational training in payroll or other relevant post-secondary education.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Good knowledge of the Office package, especially Word and Excel.

Merits:

• University degree in payroll, economics, or HR.
• Experience in debt management and recoveries.
• Experience with pension issues and pension administration.
• Experience working process-oriented and with continuous improvements.
• Experience working in a municipal or other politically governed organization.
• Experience with payroll systems and related support systems, such as Personec P, TimeCare, and TimePool.
• Experience in process mapping, system implementation, or procurement of payroll systems.
• Experience using AI solutions within the payroll area.

Personal qualities:

• Meticulous – works in a structured manner with high quality.
• Responsible – takes responsibility for the whole and drives the work forward.
• Service-oriented – enjoys providing support to managers and employees.
• Communicative – expresses yourself clearly and professionally in contact with others.
• Structured – keeps order and can prioritize among several tasks.

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

We offer you

As an employee in Södertälje Municipality, you are offered a secure employment, good terms of employment and working environment, competence development, and several benefits. Please read more about us on our website and for more information about our benefits: https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/ (https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/)

Welcome to us!

Other

Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period.

Södertälje Municipality works with competency-based recruitment methodology to counteract discrimination and promote diversity in the workplace.

We have many positions where we conduct a register check. A certificate of good conduct (criminal record and suspicion register) from the Police Authority may therefore need to be presented by the candidate before a decision on employment is made.

An employment with us may involve placement in a security class. A security investigation with register check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be conducted before a decision on employment is made. For some of our security-classed tasks, Swedish citizenship is required.