Payroll Specialist (Fix-Term Contract)

Stella McCartney; Milano; In loco; EUR 40.000 - 45.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Stella McCartney is seeking an experienced Payroll Specialist to join our People & Culture team on a 12-month Fixed-Term Contract, based in Milan or Novara. You will own the Italian payroll process, coordinate with the external provider and ensure compliance with local regulations.

Ideally you have strong Zucchetti knowledge, excel proficiency, and experience with Workday HRIS. You will deliver accurate payroll outputs, answer employee questions and continuously improve payroll controls.

Competenze

• Solid experience as Payroll Specialist or similar role.
• Strong knowledge of Italian payroll, taxation and social security.
• Experience coordinating an external payroll provider and ensuring accuracy.

Mansioni

• Coordinate monthly payroll for Italy with external payroll provider.
• Validate inputs, review outputs and ensure accuracy before approval.
• Manage Zucchetti for time & attendance and payroll data.
• Act as main contact with external provider and resolve queries.
• Collaborate with Finance for salary payments and reconciliations.
• Respond to employee payroll inquiries with clear, timely support.
• Ensure compliance with Italian payroll and labour legislation.

Conoscenze

Time & attendance

Payroll reconciliations

Excel

Attention to detail

English proficiency

Strumenti

Zucchetti

Workday HRIS

Descrizione del lavoro

Overview

We are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented Payroll Specialist to join our People & Culture team on a 12-month-Fixed-Term Contract (FTC), based in Milan or Novara and reporting to the People Partner. The role will be fully focused on Italian payroll, ensuring an accurate, timely and compliant payroll process and providing a high-quality service to employees and the business.

Your Mission

• Coordinate the monthly payroll process for Italy, ensuring accurate and timely delivery in partnership with the external payroll provider.
• Collect, validate and submit monthly payroll inputs and review payroll outputs, ensuring accuracy before final approval.
• Manage Zucchetti, with a particular focus on time and attendance, absences and payroll-related employee data.
• Act as the main point of contact for the external payroll provider, coordinating the payroll cycle and resolving any queries or discrepancies.
• Partner closely with the Finance team to coordinate salary payments, ensure accurate and timely payroll information, perform monthly payroll reconciliations and support year-end activities.
• Act as a trusted point of contact for employees and managers on all payroll-related matters, providing timely, accurate and clear support and ensuring a consistently high level of customer service.
• Proactively manage and resolve employee payroll queries and issues, following through to resolution and ensuring a positive employee experience.
• Ensure payroll processes comply with Italian payroll and labour legislation, keeping up to date with relevant regulatory changes.
• Maintain accurate payroll documentation and reporting and contribute to continuous improvements in payroll processes and controls.

Your Talent

• Solid previous experience as a Payroll Specialist or in a similar payroll-focused role.
• Strong experience managing the Italy payroll cycle, including payroll inputs, controls, reconciliations and validation of payroll outputs.
• Proven experience working with and coordinating an external payroll provider.
• Strong understanding of payroll calculations, with the ability to independently review, validate and challenge payroll outputs produced by the provider.
• Excellent knowledge of Italian payroll and labour legislation, taxation and social security requirements.
• Strong hands-on knowledge and experience of Zucchetti is mandatory, particularly for time and attendance management.
• Knowledge of Workday HRIS is preferred.
• Previous experience with payroll reconciliations, reporting and year-end processes.
• Strong Excel skills and a high level of numerical accuracy and attention to detail.
• Fluent in Italian with good working proficiency in English.
• Strong customer service mindset, with the ability to handle employee payroll queries with professionalism, empathy and a solution-oriented approach.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with employees, managers and internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, manage strict monthly payroll deadlines and follow issues through to resolution.

Salary

Salary Range: € 40.000 - € 45.000 Gross Annual Salary (RAL).

Company Culture

Lavorare per Stella McCartney è un'esperienza davvero gratificante. In qualità di azienda operante nell'industria della moda di lusso con un forte profilo etico, siamo leader e innovatori nel settore. A noi di Stella McCartney piace essere audaci. Ciò significa sfidare sé stessi e il settore in cui lavoriamo. Come parte dei nostri impegni per una moda sostenibile, abbiamo una strategia ambiziosa e l’obiettivo di mettere al centro di tutto ciò che facciamo la diversità, l’uguaglianza e l’inclusione. Il nostro punto di partenza è creare uno spazio di lavoro in cui voci diverse siano rispettate, ascoltate e alimentate in modo equo, a prescindere da fattori culturali e sociali. Desideriamo inoltre influenzare e capovolgere la moda e altri settori, facendo splendere talenti internazionali e vari. Diamo il benvenuto a persone con disabilità e facciamo si che ciò avvenga nel modo migliore. Stella McCartney is bold. Our mission is to bring conscience to the industry through our shared values and activist non-conformity. We are committed to make every action count; whether we are leading the way in sustainability or continuing to blur the lines through genderless collections that celebrate our free-thinking individuality, we are accountable for the impact that we have on planet earth and its people. Though our mission is progressive and changes the way the fashion industry works, we remain rooted by our family mindset and connected by a shared trust that inspires inclusivity as well as ground-breaking ideas. We celebrate the life of every member of our global tribe, from the next-gen changemakers pushing us forward to the female icons that have been the heart of our inspiration since 2001.