Senior Payroll Specialist (f/m/d)

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Belgique; Sur place; EUR 45 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work from home

Pension scheme

Hospitalization insurance

Representation allowance

Internet allowance

32 days vacation

Résumé du poste

Hitachi ABB Power Grids is seeking a permanent Payroll Specialist to support Belgium within the Northern Europe HUB Payroll team. You’ll ensure accurate, timely payroll processing in collaboration with an outsourced provider, HR, and Finance, across the employee lifecycle.

Key responsibilities include inputs, validations, reconciliations, and post-payroll checks, with strong emphasis on Belgian regulations and data integrity.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in payroll within shared services or outsourced environments.
• Strong knowledge of Belgium payroll processes and employment legislation.
• Experience with payroll reconciliations, controls, audits, and compliance.
• Experience collaborating with external payroll providers.
• High accuracy and strong problem-solving abilities.

Responsabilités

• 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.
• Apply strong understanding of Belgium payroll processes, deductions, benefits and lifecycle events.
• Partner with HR to ensure accurate payroll processing across starters, changes, absences and leavers.
• Maintain payroll controls and ensure compliance with policies, audits, GDPR and Belgian law.
• Manage payroll queries and transactional requests with timely, service-minded resolution.
• Support payroll reporting, audits, documentation, and process improvements for Belgium and Northern Europe HUB.

Connaissances

Payroll processing

Belgian payroll

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Regulatory compliance

Outils

Workday

ServiceNow

Description du poste

Join our Northern Europe HUB Payroll team and play a key role in delivering a seamless payroll experience in a dynamic, fast-paced shared services environment. This opportunity is a permanent Payroll Specialist position supporting Belgium. You will support the accurate and timely delivery of payroll services, working closely with an outsourced payroll provider and collaborating with HR, Finance, and other stakeholders to ensure a consistent, compliant, and reliable payroll process.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute across the full employee lifecycle, ensuring payroll accuracy from onboarding through to offboarding. With a strong focus on Belgium payroll processes, local compliance, collaboration, service excellence, and continuous improvement, this is a highly visible and impactful position within the Northern Europe HUB Payroll team.

You will be part of a supportive and evolving regional environment where ideas are valued and improvements are encouraged. With exposure to Belgium payroll, cross-functional stakeholders, and regional ways of working, this role provides the chance to strengthen technical capability, build strong relationships, and make a meaningful contribution to the employee experience.

How you’ll make an impact:

Manage end-to-end payroll processing with the Payroll Partner, ensuring all 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.

Your background:

Proven experience in payroll within shared services, HR operations, or outsourced payroll environments.

Demonstrated knowledge of Belgium payroll processes and employment legislation.

Solid understanding of payroll reconciliations, controls, audits, and compliance requirements.

Experience working with external payroll providers.

High level of accuracy, attention to detail, and problem-solving capability.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across countries and functions.

Fluent in French, Dutch, and English.

Experience with Workday and ServiceNow would be advantageous.

More about us

We offer a permanent position in a collaborative, growth-minded environment where quality, initiative, and continuous improvement are valued. You will have the opportunity to contribute to a regional payroll team, strengthen Belgium payroll expertise, and support reliable service delivery for employees and stakeholders.

32 days Vacation

Hybrid work from home policy (3 days/week remote)

Pension Scheme, hospitalization insurance

Representation allowance and internet allowance

Job type Full time

Work arrangement Hybrid

Experience Experienced

Job function Human Resources

Contract Regular

Publication date 2026-08-17

Reference number R0141441

About Hitachi Energy

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.