Payroll Specialist - Spain

About you and the role

The Dow Chemical company has an exciting opportunity for a Payroll Specialist based in Mumbai within HR Operations team, which is dedicated to designing and delivering innovative HR solutions for employees and leaders. Your role requires deep subject-matter expertise to consult on various HR programs, processes, and people-related matters, with a primary focus on providing exceptional employee experience. You should be passionate about learning, open to new approaches, thrive in diverse teams, seek to understand the business and its customers, and enjoy leveraging data to drive change.

Key Responsibilities

1. The Payroll Specialist delivers exceptional employee experience through expert service and consultation for Payroll RTB.
2. The role supports payroll processing for one or more countries, ensuring timely and accurate pay aligned with tax laws, labor conditions, and company policies
3. Coordination with various internal and external stakeholders is essential, emphasizing accountability and ownership of data and processes.
4. The specialist drives innovation, executes agreed service levels, and pursues operational excellence in pay processing with a structured, detail-oriented approach.
5. Responsibilities include managing local and expat payroll, defining and documenting best practices, ensuring compliance, and acting as the first escalation point for Pay Coordinators and payroll vendors.
6. The role involves partnering with other disciplines, Government authorities, backing up pay runs, and participating in projects impacting expat and Spanish payroll, ensuring effective communication of outcomes.

Qualifications

• You have a bachelor's degree in HR, Finance or related area.
• You bring a minimum of 2 - 5 years Time and Absence and payroll experience, both at a technical and practical level in diverse business and work processes or other relevant job experience.

Your Skills

• Fluency in English and B2 Advanced Spanish Certification
• Understand organizational interdependencies and possess experience in cross-functional and cross-cultural change management.
• Demonstrate a strategic and analytical mindset, along with strong communication and persuasion skills.
• Have experience working in high-volume operational environments.
• Familiarity with Workday and ADP stream line is considered an advantage.
• Experience with ADP eTime or ADP WFM is a plus.
• Exhibit strong consulting and change management skills, excellent problem-solving and critical thinking abilities, the capacity to multi-task and manage competing priorities, work independently with accountability, and maintain a customer service mindset.

Additional Notes

• Relocation support is not available for this role.
• The ability to accommodate a flexible schedule aligned with international time zones (if required) is essential.