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Payroll Specialist, 70-100%, temporary until August 31st 2027

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  • Spreitenbach, Aargau, Switzerland
  • People & HR

Job Description

  • Job ID: 365408

  • Date posted: 08/09/2026

    • Who you are

    This is a great opportunity for those who want to deepen their knowledge in Payroll and to further develop existing HR knowledge.

    • Relevant education or further training in Payroll, HR or Social Insurance.
    • Knowledge of Swiss payroll, social security, taxation and employment-related regulations combined with hands-on payroll experience.
    • Good analytical skills and a flair for numbers
    • Ability to strike a balance between keeping a good overview and paying good attention to detail
    • Ability to prioritize and organize own work
    • Good service mindset
    • Quick learner who is easily able to adapt to changing demands
    • Ability to communicate confidently and clearly with various audiences both verbally and in writing
    • Role model for IKEA Culture & Values
    • Self-reliant and motivated with proven ability to work as part of a team as well as independently
    • Ability to ensure integrity of HR systems, guidelines, labour, tax and social security law
    • Ability to recognize connectivity to accounting
    • knowledge in SAP Success Factors would be a plus
    • Fluency in German and preferably in English as well. Any other national languages are a significant plus.

    Your responsibilities

    • Record and administrate personnel master data in payroll system, timekeeping system and CDS
    • Record and check variable payroll data
    • Start payroll process and check payroll data to secure correct data for payment/accounting
    • Secure a correct registration of co-workers for the different social insurances/tax authorities
    • Secure registration/announcement of co-workers to different daily allowance insurances and monitor payments of daily allowances and prepare and forward credit notes for accounting
    • Establish monthly statements to tax authorities (withholding tax) and monitor incoming invoices and forward invoices to accounting
    • Monitor expiration of child allowances
    • Establish year-end statements for social insurances and tax authorities and assistance for reconciliation
    • Establish of diverse personnel and salary data reports
    • Complete various forms for public authorities (social insurances, execution offices)
    • Contact to external or internal partners and support line managers, co-workers and local HR in social insurance and HR system related matters
    • Establish personnel ID cards (Badges) and secure correct building accesses for co-workers in the units





    Good to know

    We mentioned ealier that we want our employees to be happy and healthy.  

    It also means saying 'thank you'!    

    Our way of saying thank you:

    • 28 vacation days (based on a 100% workload) 
    • 8 weeks paid parental leave for fathers; 20 weeks paid parental leave for mothers  
    • Very attractive social benefits 
    15% staff discount on your purchase - in every Swiss IKEA store  
    • You would rather travel to work by public transport? We pay between 85% and 100% of your yearly travel ticket
    • Free parking facilities
    • Unlimited access to the LinkedIn learning platform 
    • Affordable and healthy meals in our staff canteen (CHF 4.50 for meat dishes and CHF 3.50 for veggie dishes) 
    •Bonus payments for all employees 

    There are many opportunities for career development at IKEA. We encourage and support our employees to try out different roles, move between functions or even go abroad.  Please submit your full application online via our website, please note however that we cannot consider applications and documents sent by email or post.

    That's it from us. 

    That was a lot of information. We'd love to find out more about you. Just click on "Apply now" and off you go.  

      We review applications on an ongoing basis and may stop the application process as soon as we have found the right person. So please apply as soon as possible.
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