Payroll Ops Lead

Reports to: Payroll Manager Türkiye 1UL Europe

Scope: Türkiye

Location: Ümraniye İstanbuıl

Terms & Conditions: Full Time

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are passionate about HR and looking to build a HR career, then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Manage end-to-end payroll processes, ensuring timely and accurate payroll processing for all employees in compliance and in internal policies,
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to address payroll-related inquiries and issues. Collaborate with HR, Finance, Global Mobility, Shares and other departments,

• Providing clear payroll financial closing on SAP,
• Provide to calculate accurate HR accruals (bonus, sales incentives and annual leaves),
• Ensuring compliance with Unilever SOX control frameworks,

• Adapting the payroll system and way of working process with updated legal regulations,
• Ensures that the payroll systems, processes, policies and tools are compliant with Unilever's internal-process standards and external regulatory requirements.
• Having knowledge of Labor Law 4857 and 5746, 5510 SSI regulation, income tax law and all labor legislation
• Ensuring interpretation and application of Collective Labor Contracts in accordance with contracts and laws
• Monitoring compensation and benefits connected to the Collective Labor Contract, on a monthly basis and making the payments
• To ensure that additional payroll processes including payroll differences related to salaries and social rights are carried out correctly after the establishment of the Collective Labor Agreement,
• Developing local Standard Operating Procedure
• To monitor and develop the Time Management / Time and Attendance System and Payroll System (IT),
• Control of Social Security summary declaration notifications (1003B Summary Declaration Notifications),
• On the personnel affairs side, to ensure that employee personnel files are stored in accordance with the law.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in payroll operations especially in Türkiye operations.
• Proven experience in managing cross-functional stakeholders and payroll vendors.
• In-depth understanding of SOX controls and compliance requirements.
  

Skills

• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle confidential information with integrity.
• Ability to work under pressure and in a complex global environment
• Able to create and drive adoption and execution of a shared vision and strategy for change.
• High financial and business acumen.
• Strong in selling ideas and concepts.
• Inspiring, motivational, and accountable people leader, able to lead remote and cross-cultural teams and connect people and ideas.
• Flexibility and agile mindset.
• Excellent Turkish and English communication skills, both written and verbal

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.