Payroll Functional Lead

Opportunity

About Maersk Air Cargo

At A.P. Moller-Maersk we have a vision that’s larger than the ocean: To provide truly integrated logistics connecting and simplifying our customers’ supply chain through global end-to-end solutions. To succeed with our strategic ambitions, Maersk Air Cargo (MAC) plays a vital role in offering cargo transport by air for customers globally.

What We offer

To work at Maersk is to work with the world. You’ll learn from – and collaborate with – skilled professionals who literally move the world, every day. With a supportive environment to develop your skills, you’ll gain access to world-class learning programmes to accelerate your career goals. And you’ll find yourself welcome in our diverse and inclusive culture, where you are valued for who you are and rewarded for what you bring. For this and many other of our roles, we can offer the flexibility of hybrid working, alongside industry leading benefits such as pension and family health/dental insurances as standard.

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing a stellar employee experience by developing an operationally excellent and compliant Payroll function in collaboration with HR and Finance colleagues
• Be the functional lead for our payroll team supporting frontline
• Take ownership of end-to-end Payroll processes (incl. approval flow) to deliver stable, efficient, and timely Payroll operation to employees for all entities
• Systematise, optimise, and automate manual processes
• Build and maintain a strong and smooth collaboration between HR, Payroll, and Finance
• Handle and guide employees on leave & absence queries
• Apply for and ensure company refunds at [xxxxx] occupational injuries registration
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws concerning e.g. vacation, parental leave, GDPR etc.
• Stay up to date with local employment law landscape to ensure local compliance
• Handle social security coverage (A1) for employees abroad
• Register and upload absence in our Payroll system
• Reply to questions from employees in joint Payroll inbox
• Control salary data before pay slips are produced and across months.
• Partner with leaders, HR colleagues, Union reps, and relevant external advisors to resolve employee relations issues
• Keep a track record of documentation on e.g. sick leave, parental leave, A1 coverage etc.
• Secure reconciliations and controls

To succeed in this role, we believe that you can offer:

• Extensive experience working hands-on with Danish salary from A to Z for employees on collective bargaining agreements, shift workers, and salaried employees (“funktionærer”)
• Experienced within collective bargaining agreements, local agreements, Danish Vacation Act, Danish Tax Assessment Act (§§33A, 9A and §53A), and Danish Salaried Employees Act
• Experience with taxation, social security coverage abroad (A1), per diem etc.
• Knowledge of 3-part salary reconciliation (“lønarter, finans, e-indkomst”)
• Familiar with applicable data protection and privacy laws (e.g. GDPR)
• A resilient personality that can cope with organizational complexity, change, and an HR set-up that is still being implemented
• Written and verbal fluency in Danish & English

If you are ready to take on this challenge and make a tangible difference, let's connect. We're excited to see what you’ll bring to the team!

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Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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