Sr. Manager Payroll Spain

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

adidas Global Business Services delivers high quality services for Finance, Accounts and Sales Operations, Procurement, Digital, Tech and HR Services for adidas companies located in Europe .

The Senior Manager Payroll Spain provides first line people management, with responsibility for the team's payroll and HR administrative activities for Spain. Provides day to day leadership, ensuring proper and adequate controls and processes, monitoring performance while managing and developing the HR Admin and Payroll team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitors daily the team's performance, ensures direct reports meet their individual tasks, deadlines and perform to established standards.

• Coach and mentor staff to ensure each team member excels individually and engages and motivates the team to work together towards the success of a common goal. 

• Acts as first escalation level and solves as quickly as possible, including root cause analysis and process improvement based on findings.

• Evaluates and reports performance of service and takes corrective actions when needed.

• Replicates HR administrative and Payroll best practices across countries within the team and ensures that process documentation is continuously updated.

• Ensures that HR administrative and Payroll services are processed in accordance with established procedures along with all legislative compliance requirements.

• Ensures adherence to Internal Controls, other guidelines and supports internal & external audits.

• Build & maintains long-term relationships with internal or external customers & key stakeholders (e.g., HR Directors, COEs, Rewards, Talent Acquisition, HR Data, H2R HXM, etc.).

• Support ongoing outsourcing relationship with Payroll vendors in the region

• Support implementation of Hire to Retire Strategy regarding tools, programmes, and processes on a regional level.

• Creates and implements realistic goals for the team in alignment with GBS strategy.

• Develop and implement best practices, key performance indicators and SLA metrics for Spain. 
• Maintains confidentiality of any private employee information, any proprietary information and ensures HR and Payroll information is secure.
• Team focus aligned to customer service excellence and continuous operational improvements.
• Create ad hoc reports/ reporting and analyze data, both for internal management and for external authorities / agencies to meet legal obligations.
• Participates in internal and cross functional projects as required.
• Act as a role model in compliance with the relevant laws and regulations as well as adidas' Fair Play Code of Conduct and other internal policies and company agreements.
• Act as Global Audit Report Champion for Spain.
• Act as a SPOC for external auditors.
• Support HR Partners and Finance Stakeholders in the review of OWM and TCoE reports
• Support NTP team in Benefits tender as a local contact person for the GBS H2R team
• Key Relationships:
• GBS Operations and Process Excellence teams
• Employees
• External authorities, consultants, and suppliers
• HR Experts: Rewards, Mobility, Talent and Learning
• HR Partners
• Legal department
• Payroll Vendors
• Finance Department

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good level of affinity to and experience with Business computing solutions, ideally with SAP HR and Success Factors
• Very good analytical skills and detail-oriented work style
• Team player mentality
• Strong customer focus and service minded
• Experience in leading and managing teams and ability to lead by example as well as ability to prioritise team's workload to provide excellent customer experience having high volume administration to execute
• Ability to work under pressure as well as prioritizes and completes tasks in order of importance
• Good understanding of legal and tariff regulations
• University degree in Business Administration/Finance or similar
• Proven work experience in people management / demonstrated ability to manage a small-sized team
• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function
• Excellent command of English
• Strong experience with Business computing solutions, ideally with SAP HR tools
• Strong knowledge of MS-Office applications
• Specialized skills in work area - Broad knowledge in functional area
• Proven work experience with Payroll Vendors

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Business Administration/Finance/Labor Relations or similar
• Proven work experience in people management / demonstrated ability to manage a small-sized team
• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function
• Excellent command of English & Spanish
• Strong experience with Business computing solutions, ideally with SAP HR tools
• Strong knowledge of MS-Office applications
• Specialized skills in work area - Broad knowledge in functional area
• Proven work experience with Payroll Vendors

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE'S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

• COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
• OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
• INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
• TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
• INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company's standards.
• RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.