Senior HR Admin & Payroll Specialist

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We also offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career: 

Up to 29,000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract

Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family

Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)

Life insurance financed by the employer

30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day

Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere

Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role

Wellbeing programme for employees

Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow

Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office

Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification

Employee referral programme 

Responsibilities:

Preparing, updating and reviewing procedures, process descriptions, guidelines

Creating, updating and implementing HR documentation and forms

Active searching for new solutions and improvements in HR area like processes automations, etc.

Delivering the highest quality of service in personal administration and payroll operations by gathering, reviewing and preparing data for personal administration activities and payroll input

Running required controls of documentation, reports,

Entering and updating data in HR and payroll system

Preparing documents regarding employees’ life cycle

Verifying employees’ work time evidence (time sheets)

Preparing reports, data for statutory reporting, ad hoc reports etc.

Ensuring all data is delivered and processed in accordance with set deadlines

Answering employee’s queries

Substantive support for HR Administration and Payroll Junior Specialist and Specialist

Taking active part in HR local and global projects

Handling highly sensitive data with confidentiality and integrity

Qualifications:

Min. 5 years of relevant work experience in HR Administration/Payroll area – including participation or leading projects

Strong working knowledge of Polish labour law and regulations: personal administration, work time, income tax, social security regulations, social fund

Excellent planning and organizational skills

Proactive approach

Strong attention to detail

Good command of English

Excel – working knowledge

Ability to work as a part of the team and using own initiative

Very good communication and interpersonal skills

Stress resilience and ability to work under time pressure