Payroll Specialist for Copenhagen, Denmark

We are looking for a Payroll Specialist to join our People Function at Maersk Headquarters in Copenhagen!

At Maersk we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability, or religious beliefs.

Besides focusing on creating value for our customers and the business, a key priority for us is to drive personal and professional development for our people to prepare for further career progression.

As Payroll Specialist, you will be responsible for high quality delivery of payroll services and continuously driving improvements to ensure great employee experience, process optimization and compliance.

We offer

An exciting global career at the forefront of world trade. When you join our team, you join a truly diverse, global organization in a fast-moving, values-based, work environment. The many other highlights include the most modern talent development initiatives and competitive benefits. We are proud of our people who define our company’s industry leadership, global team culture and customer-centric focus every day. 

In this role you will become part of a dedicated payroll team of 6 employees who value knowledge sharing, helping each other, and having fun at work. You will report directly to the Payroll Manager for Denmark.

The team is fairly new, and you will take part in creating new ways of working and ensuring written process guidelines to be passed on to new employees. You will work closely with both internal and external stakeholders such as the People Advisory team, People Partners, and our external payroll vendor based in Spain.

Key Responsibilities

As our new Payroll Specialist, you will have knowledge of the payroll process from A-Z for all types of employment. With a curious and investigative approach to your tasks, you will be responsible for validating payroll results & provide approvals for final pay credits based on control reports. 

Furthermore, your key responsibilities will be:

We are looking for

Our ideal candidate is well-structured with excellent collaboration skills and has previous experience in managing Payroll and Time & Attendance processes within a large, complex, international organization. This goes along with knowledge of compliance and legal regulations for payroll & benefits in Denmark.

To succeed in this role, you must like changes in tasks and ways of working.

We value our unique team and are looking for someone who shares our vision of teamwork being the backbone of all we do.

Furthermore, we are looking for someone who has

If you have been reading so far, we are glad to see you are interested. If you could see yourself in this role and are keen to be part of an exciting journey with Maersk, we look forward to hearing from you!