Unilabs

Senior Payroll and Time Operations Manager

Unilabs

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Porto • Portugal

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Oracle

About the role

  • **About Unilabs**
  • Headquartered in Geneva and part of the A.P. Moller Group, Unilabs is one of Europe’s leading medical diagnostics companies, offering a complete range of laboratory, pathology, genetics, and imaging services to patients across 14 countries. Unilabs invests heavily in technology, equipment, and people – using digital technologies in its state-of-the-art laboratories and imaging institutes – to improve the lives of close to 100 million people every year.
  • **Role Purpose **
  • The Sr. Payroll Administration Manager is a strategic and operational leader responsible for the end-to-end delivery of payroll services in 10+ EU countries. The primary objective of this role is to act as the Payroll and Time Management Administration architect for the Shared Service Center (SSC) and lead the Payroll Transformation Project, with a focus on the transition of payroll services from local country entities into a centralized regional hub.

Requirements

  • - Bachelor’s degree in HR, Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field
  • - 5+ years in Payroll Management, with at least 3 years in a GBS/Shared Service environment
  • - Experience managing time-management systems and payroll interfaces.
  • - Proven track record of successfully transferring services from local to central teams in a multi-country setup.
  • - Prior experience collaborating with multi-country HR teams and external vendors.
  • - Proven ability to lead remote or regional teams through organizational change.
  • - Experience managing third-party payroll providers (e.g., ADP, Alight…).
  • - Proficiency in global payroll platforms (e.g., Oracle) and advanced Excel.
  • - Fluent English (Required)
  • - Regional Subject Matter Expertise (CH & EU):
  • - Expert-level knowledge of Swiss (CH) Payroll is highly preferred, strong knowledge of other EU payroll landscapes.
  • - High-level expertise in EU labor laws, GDPR data privacy requirements for payroll data, and statutory reporting across Euro-zone countries.
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Hard Skills & Tools
Payroll ManagementTime Management SystemsPayroll InterfacesGlobal Payroll PlatformsAdvanced ExcelSwiss PayrollEU Payroll LandscapesEU Labor LawsGDPR Data PrivacyStatutory Reporting
Soft Skills
LeadershipCollaborationOrganizational Change ManagementRemote Team Management