Payroll Specialist

Role Overview

• Support payroll processing for France, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with statutory requirements.
• Support and maintain in-house France payroll operations, ensuring consistent and accurate delivery.
• Run European payrolls via BPO providers, including payroll input validation, coordination, and payroll review.
• Review payroll and expense calculations, payslips, and payroll outputs prior to finalisation.
• Apply payroll knowledge and working understanding of French payroll legislation, including social security contributions, income tax withholding (Prélèvement à la Source – PAS), paid leave, and statutory deductions.
• Support compliance with URSSAF and other statutory reporting obligations, including DSN.
• Escalate complex payroll or compliance issues to senior payroll stakeholders as needed.
• Work closely with internal payroll, HR, finance, and EOR teams to ensure smooth payroll delivery across Europe.
• Liaise with BPO payroll partners to resolve payroll queries and ensure service-level expectations are met.
• Maintain accurate payroll documentation and support audits or internal reviews.
• Assist with continuous improvement initiatives to enhance payroll accuracy, efficiency, and consistency.
• Support testing of regulatory changes, system updates, and payroll process enhancements.

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years of payroll experience, with exposure to French payroll.
• Knowledge of French payroll legislation is an advantage.
• Experience working with EOR payroll models or BPO payroll providers is preferred.
• Familiarity with payroll systems and payroll data processing; experience using the Silae payroll system is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Able to manage deadlines and payroll cut-off timelines.
• Collaborative, dependable, and proactive.
• Clear communication skills.
• Fluent in French and English (written and verbal).