Payroll Specialist

Payroll Specialist

Job Description

Fixed-term contract (maternity leave cover – 12 months)

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional® [local brands can be input here, be sure to use register sign ®].

 At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

As the Payroll Specialist, as part of Global Business Services (GBS), you will be responsible for delivering payroll and employer compliance services in Italy.

You will be also responsible for co-ordination of the outsourced payroll and execution of any monthly input, checking or output activities for the full payroll cycle, plus all local employer compliance activities including annual returns and reporting requirements.

The role will be responsible for full employer compliance and will therefore be required to keep up to date with changing legislation and implement as necessary.

You will report to the Payroll Operations Team Leader – Western Europe and you will be an individual contributor (no direct reports).

The contract will be temporary with a one year maternity cover.

Location: we can offer a hybrid model (3 days per week on remote / 2 days per week at Turin Office) for candidates already based in Turin.

Duties and responsibilities:


* Manage end-to-end monthly payroll operations via an outsourced provider, ensuring accurate, timely payments, including non-system inputs, checks and ad‑hoc processing.


* Act as the key point of contact for payroll vendors and regulatory bodies, escalating issues, driving corrective actions, and proactively identifying process improvements and efficiencies.


* Provide payroll expertise on system and process changes, developing and communicating clear payroll policies and procedures for employees, managers, HR, Finance and external providers.


* Monitor payroll legislation and regulatory changes, ensuring ongoing compliance and updating internal policies, procedures and controls accordingly.


* Ensure accurate payroll accounting, support finance with reconciliations, manage audits and internal controls, and deliver regular and ad‑hoc payroll reporting and insights.


* Administer pension auto‑enrolment, flexible benefit...