HR Specialist Payroll Operations

Keystone Solutions; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Keystone Solutions seeks an HR Specialist – Payroll Operations to join a client-site HR Pay & Post Pay Operations team in Brussels. You will manage remuneration calculations, statutory declarations and SAP changes while collaborating with multiple HR services.

You will work on-site within the client's HR Service Center and ensure timely, compliant payroll execution. The role requires strong numerical and regulatory knowledge, experience in payroll operations, and the ability to communicate in

Qualifications

• Experience as an administrative manager or in managing operational processes.
• Motivated by technical and complex subject matter.
• Strong analytical skills with numbers and knowledge of social and tax regulations.
• Dynamic, flexible and stress-resistant.
• Methodical, rigorous and proactive in work.
• Team player with easy collaboration across diverse groups.
• Accurate, detail-oriented, and diligent in checking work.
• Able to communicate with employees in both French and Dutch, written and spoken.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Comfortable using SAP HR, various databases, Microsoft Office, and HR Direct Access.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate remuneration calculations within deadlines.
• Complete statutory declarations including social security and payroll tax declarations.
• Implement legal and internal changes in SAP, including testing and validation.
• Collaborate with HR service teams on payroll-related projects.
• Operate as a payroll operations specialist in the HR Pay & Post Pay Operations team.
• Use SAP HR, Excel, DB Access and HR Direct Access for tasks.
• Prioritize daily tasks to meet deadlines.
• Oversee monthly payroll calculations through to salary payment.
• Ensure compliance with statutory deadlines for remuneration declarations.
• Contribute to process testing and feedback for improvements.
• Coordinate with IT/analysts on system changes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Numbers affinity

Team player

Methodical approach

Stress resilience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SAP HR

DB Access

MS Office

HR Direct Access

Job description

Mission Overview:

Keystone Solutions is looking for an HR Specialist – Payroll Operations for a consultancy mission with our client in Brussels. You will be hired by Keystone Solutions and represent us as a K-Stone while working on-site within the client's HR Service Center, specifically the HR Pay & Post Pay Operations service team. This mission combines payroll operations, legal declarations, SAP HR implementation and cross-functional HR collaboration.

Your Role:

Under Keystone Solutions’ consultancy model, your responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring accurate employee remuneration calculations within the required deadlines.
• Completing statutory declarations, including social security and payroll withholding tax declarations, in accordance with applicable rules and deadlines.
• Following up and implementing legal and internal changes in SAP, including initiation, testing and validation.
• Collaborating with other Service Teams and the HR Tribe on projects interacting with the Payroll domain.
• Operating as a specialist within the operational HR Pay & Post Pay Operations team.
• Using the available technical tools, including SAP HR, Excel, DB Access and HR Direct Access, to perform all planned operational tasks.
• Managing your daily priorities to ensure tasks are completed within the required deadlines.
• Taking responsibility for the correct execution and follow-up of monthly payroll calculations through to salary payment.
• Taking responsibility for the correct execution and follow-up of statutory declarations related to remuneration while strictly respecting applicable legal deadlines.
• Ensuring the correct execution and follow-up of the various controls in place within deadlines, and reviewing these controls as the subject matter evolves.
• Participating in the testing of new processes or process adaptations and providing the necessary feedback.
• Collaborating with analysts responsible for the technical aspects of the systems.
• Collaborating with colleagues in the HR Service Center in the execution of their daily tasks.
• Working closely with other HR specialist teams, including Social Regulations, Reward and Pension, as well as HR Business.
• Informing the team lead of problems encountered during process execution so that processes owned by the Service Team are maintained and kept up to date.
• Ensuring customer satisfaction.

Your Profile:

• You have experience as an administrative manager or in managing operational processes.
• You are motivated by technical and complex subject matter.
• You have strong analytical skills and an affinity with numbers as well as social and tax regulations.
• You are dynamic, flexible and stress-resistant.
• You work methodically, rigorously and proactively.
• You are a team player and collaborate easily with a wide range of people.
• You are accurate, detail-oriented and carefully check your work.
• You can communicate with employees in both French and Dutch, in writing and orally.
• You hold a Bachelor's degree or have equivalent experience.
• You are comfortable working with technical tools such as SAP HR, different types of databases, the Microsoft Office suite and HR Direct Access.

Why Join Keystone Solutions:

As a Keystone Solutions consultant, you gain the opportunity to build your expertise through challenging on-site client assignments while retaining the identity and support of a consultancy professional. Our dynamic projects expose you to diverse challenges across client environments, creating turbo-charged learning opportunities and broad professional experience. We encourage skyrocketing ambition by supporting continued career growth and the development of both technical and strategic expertise.

Being a K-Stone means bringing Keystone Solutions’ core values to every engagement while delivering quality, collaboration and professionalism for our clients. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences and recognise their contribution to stronger results and innovation.