Sr. Payroll Advisor

Lego Group; Monterrey; Híbrido; MXN 420.000 - 650.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Headspace wellbeing app access

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Descripción de la vacante

The LEGO Group in Monterrey, Mexico is seeking a Sr. Payroll Advisor to build a sustainable, high-performing payroll function for the Americas. You will ensure accurate, compliant payroll operations and partner with HR, finance and vendors to drive quality, learning and a strong control environment.

Join a culture that emphasizes collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivering reliable payroll processing for a large workforce. U.S.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in administration or accountability.
• Proven payroll, HR or labor relations experience.
• Experience with ADP, Workday, and KRONOS.
• Strong hands-on U.S. payroll experience required.
• LATAM payroll experience with compliance and high-volume exposure acceptable if learning U.S. requirements.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Demonstrated KPI tracking and process-improvement mindset.

Responsabilidades

• Support consistent, timely payroll processes and compliance setup.
• Help establish a payroll department for the AMERICAS with quality and learning.
• Build collaborative relations with partners for global payroll processes.
• Adapt to varied working styles and cultural diversity across partners.
• Process weekly and special payrolls for about 4,000 employees.
• Design business rules and test with Dev Team and payroll vendor.
• Plan and manage multiple projects through all phases and testing.
• Collaborate with HR Ops, T&A, Finance and others to ensure data flow.
• Develop controls and improve payroll quality and efficiency.
• Drive ongoing process improvement and automation.

Conocimientos

Analytical

Detail-oriented

Bilingual

Proactive mindset

Team collaboration

Educación

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Administration

Herramientas

ADP

Workday

KRONOS

Descripción del empleo

Job Description Are you a keen learner to play a significant role in establishing a balanced payroll department in the BSO? We need team members who are ready to engage in building a high delivery function and value partnership, quality, and fun in everyday life! Play your part in our team succeeding The Sr. Payroll Advisor plays a critical role in establishing a sustainable, stable and high-performing Payroll department within the BSO. In this role, you will be essential in building reliable payroll operations for the Americas — contributing your expertise, collaboration and continuous-improvement mindset to ensure quality, efficiency and a strong partnership experience. Together, we aim to create a department where learning, collaboration and fun are part of everyday life, while delivering consistent, accurate and compliant payroll processes.

Core Responsibilities

To support The LEGO Group with consistent, timely and reliable Payroll processes and ensure efficient payroll maintenance, validation & compliance set up.

To be part of establishing a payroll department with a great working environment and where quality, learning and performance are keystones for the BSO covering AMERICAS.

To form new collaborative relationship with partners and thereby ensure sustainable implementation of the global processes in Payroll.

Coping with an exciting and constantly changing environment that includes various ways of working and cultural diversity among partners.

• Weekly and special Payrolls for Avg 4,000 employees.

Design business rules and perform testing collaborating with the Development Team and Payroll Vendor ensuring proper system functions.

Experience across multiple projects' planning, managing the execution and delivery of all phases and testing.

Collaborate with internal stakeholders (HR Ops, T&A, Finance, Global Mobility, Benefits) to ensure smooth data flow and resolve cross-functional issues.

Building functional process to increase controls and ensure quality in Payroll Process.

Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying process gaps, proposing enhancements and helping standardize practices across Americas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in accountability or Administration.
• Proven working experience in Payroll, Labor Relations, HR.
• Experience with ADP, Workday, KRONOS.
• Strong hands‑on experience in U.S. Payroll is required.
• If the candidate does not have U.S. experience, deep LATAM payroll experience with strong compliance and high-volume processing exposure is acceptable, provided they demonstrate ability to learn U.S. requirements quickly.
• Advance Excel skills.
• Fully Bilingual Personal skills Analytical, detail — and high-quality oriented Define and track KPIs/metrics for payroll performance, quality and controls; use findings to implement corrective actions and improvements Drive ongoing process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, reduce risk and increase automation in payroll operations Lead root-cause analyses when issues occur, and implement permanent solutions (not just fixes) Demonstrate resilience in challenging scenarios (tight deadlines, regulatory changes, system transitions) and maintain high quality under pressure A proactive mind with a can‑do attitude. Foster a high‑energy, collaborative, fun environment that aligns with The LEGO Group’s culture of quality and playfulness Personal drive and initiative, excellent collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to build trust and credibility with assigned business areas or other key partners.

Benefits

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
• Your workplace – You'll find this at the top of this advert and when you join the team, we'll confirm this with you.
• We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

Culture & Values

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are.

Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to "inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow."

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe.

Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to "inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow".