Your mission:

Would you like to join a newly created team in Riga?

The Senior Payroll Operations Specialist delivers complex multi-country payroll activity and provides a deeper level of expertise within the Payroll and Reward Operations team.

What you will do:

• Deliver complex and high-risk payroll administration activities including advanced validations, reconciliations, statutory calculations, year-end processes and payroll exception handling.
• Act as the key escalation point for payroll issues raised by the Payroll and Reward Operations team, People Services Teams and other stakeholders.
• Lead investigations into payroll discrepancies, collaborating closely with the outsourced payroll provider, People Technology and internal partners to ensure timely and accurate resolution.
• Perform detailed quality checks on payroll inputs and outputs, ensuring compliance with statutory, internal and J SOX requirements.
• Support day to day operational management of the outsourced payroll provider, reviewing service performance, identifying quality issues and escalating concerns to the Team Leader as needed.
• Work closely with People Operations to ensure accurate and complete data transfer, identify recurring upstream issues and contribute to root cause analysis.
• Partner with People Technology to resolve system-related payroll issues, support testing of fixes or enhancements and validate payroll-critical configuration changes.
• Support statutory, regulatory and benefits-related payroll reporting, ensuring accurate data submissions for compliance activities.
• Provide guidance, coaching and knowledge support to the Payroll Operations Specialists and Payroll and Reward Operations Associate.
• Contribute to process improvement by identifying inefficiencies, recurring errors or opportunities to automate or standardise payroll processes.
• Support reward operations delivery during salary review cycles, variable pay processes, benefits census reporting and other reward-related activities.

What we ask for:

• Relevant education in the HR or Finance field.
• Extensive payroll operations experience, ideally within a multi country or shared services environment.
• Deep understanding of payroll legislation in Europe, statutory compliance requirements and complex payroll scenarios.
• Strong numerical and analytical ability with attention to detail.
• Experience managing advanced escalations and resolving high-risk payroll issues.
• Experience working with outsourced payroll vendors and monitoring service quality.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability with exceptional attention to detail.
• Understanding of people-to-payroll data flows, upstream dependencies and interface processes.
• Experience using payroll or HRIS systems (SAP SuccessFactors experience is beneficial).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to guide and support colleagues.
• Fluency in English is required.

What we offer:

Monthly salary 1500 - 1900 EUR gross (The final offer will be based on the candidate’s assessed skills, knowledge and experience).

Benefits: 

• Annual bonus.
• Hybrid working module (3+2).
• Health insurance.
• Eye care.
• Wellness/Recognition programs.
• Development programs.
• Employee Discount on Epson products.

Our heritage

We aspire to be an indispensable company, trusted throughout the world for our commitment to openness, customer satisfaction and sustainability. We respect individuality while promoting teamwork, and we are committed to delivering unique value through innovative and creative solutions.

Our commitment to the environment

We all have a role to play in building a better future. For Epson, being a sustainable company means being mindful of every aspect of our organisation – from the smallest lightbulb to the largest factory. It fuels our innovation, drives our growth, motivates our workforce and, ultimately, to contribute to society.

Our people

We believe a healthy culture, strong values, teamwork and contribution from a diverse range of individuals will help us to strive for excellence.

Our brand

Ranked by Clarivate Analytics as a Top 100 Global Innovator brand for the last seven years running

Epson is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applications from individuals of all protected characteristics and are committed to providing any necessary accommodations during the application and assessment process, as well as upon joining our team.

If you require additional assistance for your application or wheelchair access to our facilities, please email recruitment@epson.eu. A member of our team will be happy to assist you.