Sr. Payroll Advisor (Temporary)

the LEGO Group; México; Hybrid; Confidencial; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and Disability Insurance

Headspace Wellbeing Program

Colleague Discount

Bonus Scheme

Job summary

The LEGO Group seeks a Sr. Payroll Advisor to establish a balanced, high-performing payroll function for the Americas within the BSO team. You will build reliable payroll operations, ensure accuracy, and foster partnerships across HR Ops, Finance and Global Mobility.

Key responsibilities include executing US payroll for company codes, driving process improvements, and collaborating with vendors to ensure compliant, timely payroll delivery in a dynamic, diverse environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in administration or related field.
• Proven experience in payroll, labor relations or HR.
• Experience with ADP, Workday and Kronos.
• Strong U.S. payroll hands-on experience; LATAM payroll with US requirements is a plus.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Fully bilingual in English and another language.

Responsibilities

• Support payroll processes for US company codes in a timely, accurate manner.
• Establish a sustainable, high-performing payroll function for the Americas.
• Collaborate with HR Ops, Finance, and Global Mobility to ensure data flow.
• Design business rules and test with payroll vendor/development teams.
• Lead continuous improvement to increase controls and automation.
• Deliver compliant payroll operations and timely reporting.
• Participate in cross-project planning and testing.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Bilingual

Payroll, HR, Labor Relations

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

ADP

Workday

KRONOS

Job description

Job Description

Are you ready to play a significant role in establishing a balanced payroll department at the LEGO Group?

We are building a team that is ready to engage in building a high delivery function and value partnership, quality, and fun in everyday life!

NOTE: All CVs MUST be written in English.

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 Business Service Operations (BSO) team. 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.

• Execution of payroll processes for US Company Codes in a timely, efficient and accurate manner, including: -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.

Do you have what it takes?

NOTE: All CVs MUST be written in English.

• 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.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

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:

Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working:

Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

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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