Global Payroll Specialist – Temporary Contract until Mid‑June 2026
Shared Services | Barcelona
Key Responsibilities
* Responsible for payroll compliance, efficiencies & timeliness for the assigned countries.
* Ensure correct accounting via payroll journals, maintaining transaction accuracy for high‑quality outputs.
* Liaise with internal and external stakeholders (employees, HR teams, payroll provider ADP), providing excellent customer service, payroll knowledge and meeting all required SLAs.
* Act as the first point of contact for payroll enquiries and cases within the assigned locations.
* Deliver monthly and annual payroll returns and maintain their accuracy for all employees within remit.
* Support payroll‑impacting projects as a resource where appropriate.
* Provide support on KPI deliverables for payroll and the team.
* Run recurring or ad‑hoc reports, checking data and formatting them appropriately for use by finance colleagues or the business.
* Make suggestions to processes, support team projects, and work with others to upskill in other SME areas across payroll.
* Keep up to date on regulation changes for supported locations, ensuring accuracy and service to customers.
* Maintain compliance with all local regulations regarding payroll and benefits.
* Recommend innovative approaches, policies and procedures for continual improvements in departmental efficiencies.
* Continue to increase subject matter expertise on allocated locations, on all payroll and legislative matters, providing expertise support where needed to others.
* Work with the payroll team and the Global Payroll Operations Manager to provide additional processing/transaction support as required.
* Create and submit monthly pension submissions to the relevant providers in line with agreed SLAs.
* Work to a globally standardised way across the team, ensuring cross‑country backup & peer checks are completed, highlighting issues and identifying trends.
Skills Required
* Knowledgeable in Global Payroll Operations;
experience with EMEA & APAC payroll is a plus.
* Excellent payroll knowledge (statutory, legislative) on multiple countries.
* Experienced with payroll journals and cost analysis.
* Excellent communication skills, both internal and external.
* Fluent in English;
other languages are a plus.
* Excellent IT skills, especially PowerPoint and Excel.
* Proactive & positive attitude towards global payroll tasks, process improvements and changes.
* Ability to work well independently and demonstrate initiative with minimal direction.
* Ability to work in a fast‑moving, ambitious and matrix organisation.
* High attention to detail, with accuracy as a consistent trademark for all deliverables.
* Experience with outsourced payroll including Connectivity;
ADP Streamline experience is a plus.
* Experience working in a project environment and contributing to payroll change projects.
About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world‑famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has offices in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.Com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.
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