Payroll Admin Lead

We know life is different for everyone, so at Tesco we're open to flexible working conversations. Whether you're starting out, seeking balance, or navigating life changes like parenthood or caregiving — talk to us. You'll spend around 60% of your time working from our offices or sites, and the rest remotely.

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:

• Competitive Compensation package based on your experience and skills (Cafeteria, Mobile phone, 15% shopping discount in every Hungarian Tesco store)
• Annual private healthcare package
• Performance-based annual bonus
• Minimum of 25 paid leave days per year
• Career Growth is not just a cliché - we operate in 3 markets as one Central European business, so there are many opportunities for growth and development
• Solid Business Background with more than 100 proud years of company history
• We are a Great Team and we are not fond of any formalities here
• Modern Office with great location (e.g.: free parking)
• Flexible working policy

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• Be the process expert by understanding end to end processes, legislation and policies. Ensure payroll processes are defined and executed in line with legislative guidelines and company policies.
• Plan and manage workflow received for the team so that all inputs are completed as per the SLA guidelines.
• Balance priorities for the team to be able to complete all activities according to the schedules.
• Define controls and validation checklist for all activities performed by the Payroll team to ensure accuracy is maintained at all times. Support completion and reporting of the control tasks regularly.
• Support the team by creating and maintaining process documentation (SOP, PIPOR, Process maps on ARIS).
• Deliver training for the new hires joining the Payroll admin team; sharing process / policy / legislation updates to all the members within Payroll admin team and also conduct refresher trainings (based on error analysis, observations, etc.) to all the members of the Payroll admin team.
• Understand the change requirement and perform end to end UAT on the core HR and Payroll systems to assess if the developments / changes have been made in line with the requirements and if the results / output is accurate.
• Undergo the Continuous Improvement learning journey in order to be the CI champ for the Payroll admin team.
• Develop individuals within the team to set up a continuous improvement culture. Lead and deliver continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiency, accuracy and avoid payroll leakage, thereby save cost.

• High School/Graduate education
• Upper-Intermediate level English knowledge
• 3-4 years of professional experience in payroll environment
• Qualified Payroll clerk
• MS Office knowledge
• Process knowledge
• Working on Complex Cases
• Planning and Prioritisation
• Delivering Business Goals
• Process Mapping Tools & Techniques
• Problem solving

We established our service centre supporting Tesco's operation in the Central European region back in 2019. Our colleagues provide service for Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia in several fields: finance, people and payroll services, colleague and customer engagement, customer and product, enterprise analytics. Besides these, we have a modern Technology Hub developing software and applications used by millions of people - customers and colleagues - globally. Our young and dynamic teams are driving and accelerating changes on a global scale, so it is important for us to find colleagues that are open to learn and develop themselves. At Tesco Business Solutions & Technology we support our business in operating efficiently and serving shoppers a little better every day.