The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible can afford them.

We are determined to bring a little bit of Sweden to Mexico.

Operational Excellence

• Responsible for the overseeing the payroll and salary administration functions for the region.

• Manage payroll processing, tax clearance and claims processing.

• Manage 3rd party payroll service providers in ensuring quality and timely delivery of services.

• Ensure compliance to national legislation, regulations and valid agreements in the labor market and company policies.

• Initiate and drive continuous process improvements and process standardization.

• Ensure staff costs are in line with set targets as set in the budget.

• Ensure that payroll practices are compliant and competitive related to local market which enables us to attract and retain the right people in our business.

• Contribute actively that the salary review process are handled in a structured and professional way

• Ensure that the organization uses HR data to enable better management of all human resource related processes

• Document and keep records of HR security access rights.

• Secure that there are sufficient levels of control to prevent any type of fraud with salary payments.

• Monitor signal lists to try and identify any type of misuse of payroll systems.

• Secure that there are routines in place for following up of salary costs in all departments in all IKEA.

• Produce different reports to support in salary review processes and other reviews such as Payroll report, Headcount/FTE report, Leave Accruals Report, etc.

• Develop and oversee payroll/benefits case tracking and management system that ensure all cases are logged and resolved on a timely basis.

• Support with tasks within rewards management for the whole business area.

2-5 years minimum experience as Payroll Manager in the Mexican market, preferably at a retail company.

Building Business Competence

• Create a business and value-driven diversity adapted to the store needs

• Create an atmosphere where knowledge sharing, internal promotion throughout IKEA Mexico and high commitment to the results in an organisation that is able to attract, retain and develop talented co-workers.

• Being the super user of payroll system and time and attendance system, secure that that HR professionals and managers work with these systems receive proper training enabling them in carry out their responsibility.

Leading for Performance

• Coach and support  (internal/external) payroll operational teams in delivering payroll

• Provide guidance to payroll operational teams and HR managers in a variety of complex payroll implication – e.g. taxation, relocation

• Lead and/or involve in continuous improvement projects especially those related in payroll and benefits area.

• Reinforce and strengthen the IKEA culture in the store

• Ensure that the payroll functions represent an environment with both high job satisfaction and a high job commitment