What You'll Do: As GL Accountant Payroll, you'll report to the Accounting Team Lead, and play a key role in ensuring payroll activity is accurately and completely reflected in the general ledger across all countries in your scope. As part of this, you'll drive your part of the monthly close process, including journal entries, accruals, and full reconciliation between HR data and our ERP. You'll ensure tasks are completed accurately and on time, with the support of your Manager who will run regular 1:1s with you. Getting the fundamentals right matters to us, and you'll be expected to bring both rigor and a positive energy in your daily tasks and dynamic closing periods. This role operates in a SOX-compliant environment, and you will be expected to deliver your SOX controls on time and to the required standard of quality.



You'll work closely with People teams across multiple countries, developing a solid understanding of local payroll specifics and becoming a trusted accounting partner to HR, as well as with the broader accounting and controllership team, FP&A;, and other finance stakeholders. A key part of the role also involves standardizing and improving how payroll integrates into our financial statements globally. We're also migrating from SAP to Oracle Cloud ERP, and in this role will have the opportunity to contribute to how payroll accounting is designed in our future system — a good fit for someone who takes pride in running a tight process and i

📌 GL Payroll Accountant (Barcelona)
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📍 Barcelona