Belgium Payroll Specialist – Hybrid & Impact

Hitachi Energy; West-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

32 days Vacation

Hybrid work from home (3 days/week)

Pension Scheme

Hospitalization insurance

Meal vouchers

Internet and representation allowance

Mobile phone + subscription

Eco Voucher

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Belgium is seeking a Payroll Specialist to join the Northern Europe HUB Payroll team. You will support end-to-end payroll processing for Belgium, coordinating with an outsourced provider and HR, ensuring accurate, on-time deliveries.

You’ll work across the employee lifecycle, ensuring statutory compliance, and contributing to process improvements in a collaborative, regional environment with a 3-day remote policy. Fluent in FR, NL and EN preferred.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in payroll within shared services or outsourced environments.
• Knowledge of Belgium payroll processes and employment legislation.
• Experience with external payroll providers.
• Strong accuracy and stakeholder management.
• Fluent in French, Dutch and English.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end payroll processing with the Payroll Partner, ensuring inputs are accurate and submitted on time.
• Own payroll inputs, validations, reconciliations, and post-payroll checks to ensure outputs are accurate and aligned.
• Apply strong understanding of Belgium payroll processes, statutory requirements, deductions, benefits, and employee lifecycle events.
• Partner with HR to ensure accurate payroll processing across starters, contractual changes, absences, and leavers.
• Maintain robust payroll controls and ensure compliance with internal policies, audit standards, GDPR, and relevant Belgian legislation.
• Manage payroll queries and transactional requests, ensuring timely, accurate, and service-minded resolution.
• Support payroll reporting, audits, documentation requirements, and process improvements across Belgium and the Northern Europe HUB.

Skills

Payroll experience

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Languages: FR NL EN

Tools

Workday

ServiceNow

Job description

Hitachi Energy in Belgium is seeking a Payroll Specialist to join the Northern Europe HUB Payroll team. You will support end-to-end payroll processing for Belgium, coordinating with an outsourced provider and HR, ensuring accurate, on-time deliveries.

You’ll work across the employee lifecycle, ensuring statutory compliance, and contributing to process improvements in a collaborative, regional environment with a 3-day remote policy. Fluent in FR, NL and EN preferred.