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#BETHEDIFFERENCE

If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.

Job Description

As a Payroll Specialist, you will independently manage end-to-end payroll operations, ensuring the accurate collection, validation, and processing of payroll data from multiple sources. Leveraging your payroll expertise and strong analytical skills, you will review payroll inputs, resolve discrepancies, perform payroll reconciliations, and ensure compliance with applicable tax, statutory, and social security requirements.

In this role, you will contribute to the delivery of accurate and compliant payroll services while supporting process efficiency and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Lead payroll processing cycles across multiple countries, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery.
Develop, implement, and continuously improve payroll policies, procedures, and controls.
Support payroll system maintenance, upgrades, and enhancement initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Ensure compliance with local tax regulations, statutory requirements, and payroll-related filings across international jurisdictions.
Investigate, analyze, and resolve payroll discrepancies, issues, and escalations.
Generate, review, and analyze detailed payroll reports to support business, operational, and compliance needs.
Act as a subject matter expert, providing guidance and expertise on complex payroll-related matters.
Collaborate closely with HR, Finance, external payroll providers, and international stakeholders to ensure smooth payroll operations.
Support internal and external financial audits by providing payroll data, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance payroll processes, strengthen controls, and mitigate payroll-related risks.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Economics, Accounting, or a related field.
Minimum 2 years of experience in payroll administration, preferably within an international environment.
Hands-on experience managing end-to-end payroll processes, including payroll validation, processing, reconciliations, reporting, and statutory compliance.
Strong knowledge of payroll legislation, tax regulations, and social security requirements.
Experience working with payroll and HR systems such as SAP, ADP, Workday, or similar.
Advanced Excel skills.
Advanced English proficiency.
Experience supporting payroll operations for Poland and/or Slovakia would be an advantage.

Our Offer

Room for personal development through external, internal training tools and learning and development program #GROW. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong.
Annual incentive plan based on division financial performance and your seniority.
Referral bonus, meal vouchers, monthly allowance, gift vouchers twice a year..
Corporate Health Insurance.
Mindfulness and Wellbeing programs (Wellbeats, MyQuillibrium, Compsych, Mind & Body webinars)
Up to 28 days of annual leave based on seniority
We have a strong Work from Home culture and take into consideration punctual needs and more.
Flexible working schedule. You’ll find the flexibility for balance in your life.
Being part of Wolters Kluwer you will contribute to the development of our own products and software solutions. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Be the Difference

If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.

Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day.

We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You’ll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world.

You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong.

About Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide.

Our customers work in industries that impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI-powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity.

We deliver trusted, AI-powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert-validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes. Today, nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI-powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains.

We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud-based, AI-powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems. Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high-stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential.

With a nearly 190-year legacy, Wolters Kluwer continues to evolve its portfolio of digital solutions and services to meet the changing needs of professionals worldwide, enabling them to work faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver better outcomes.

For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.

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Building Diverse Teams

As a global organization, we recognize that solving a wide range of complex problems requires diverse perspectives and innovative thinking. We know that bringing our best to our customers, communities, and other key stakeholders requires a highly engaged and talented workforce – one that represents the diversity of those we serve and the communities where we live and work.

We aim to provide a welcoming environment and equitable opportunities for all employees regardless of background, nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or religion.

This principle is ingrained in our company values and articulated in our Code of Business Ethics.

Our Global Well-being Program

At Wolters Kluwer, you’ll feel valued for your contributions, and you’ll know that your health, safety, and well-being are important to us. Our well-being benefits provide tools, programs, and resources to help our diverse employees feel healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous.

Our global Together we thrive well-being program reflects our commitment to supporting colleagues across physical, mental, social, and financial well-being. That commitment has been recognized externally through Ragan’s Top Places to Work for Employee Wellbeing: Large Organization in 2024.

More recently, Wolters Kluwer was recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Large Employers 2026 and America’s Best Employers for Engineers 2026. In 2025, Wolters Kluwer was also recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Women.

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To ensure we continue to drive innovation that enables us to develop products and services to best serve our customers, we cultivate a workplace culture rooted in mutual respect, bringing forward insights from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We are also committed to complying with laws requiring equal opportunity in hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, and we do not tolerate discrimination on any of these bases.

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Payroll Specialist