Payroll Specialist

Payroll & Finance Specialist
Permanent
Lyngby

Are you focused on optimizing financial processes and uncovering data-driven insights? Do you thrive on enhancing efficiency, promoting continuous improvement, and simplifying complex workflows? If you're ready to create meaningful changes, this opportunity is for you

Join our Compensation & Master Data Team in Lyngby
We are seeking a Payroll & Finance Specialist who is focused on enhancing financial data integrity, refining reporting systems, and promoting process efficiency. This role is based at the company's global headquarters in Lyngby, serving as the hub for its international activities. Here you will be part of the Compensation & Master Data team, which provides specialized services within payroll and employee master data to the entire group. You will also collaborate with teams across the Nordic region, Lithuania, and other international locations.

Extend your potential
In this position, you will join a team of specialists working with payroll, master data, and finance process optimization. The team prioritizes knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continuous learning, elevating complex financial processes to the next level. You will gain valuable experience in financial systems management and process enhancement, equipping you with the ability to implement scalable, efficient solutions.
One of the team's most recent projects included optimizing parental leave, training funds, where an innovative solution in ServiceNow improved both data management and compliance. The result? Efficient workflows and increased user satisfaction.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for:

• Running the payroll process and enhancing payroll and financial reporting frameworks by developing and refining structured processes.
• Creating an overview of complex financial processes and implementing robust technological solutions such as SAP, Excel, and ServiceNow.
• Documenting, testing, and implementing new IT solutions to improve finance operations.
• Conducting audits and quality assurance (QA) assessments to ensure payroll accuracy and compliance.
• Analyzing and interpreting financial data, identifying trends that support informed decision-making.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams including HR, IT, and Finance to implement process improvements.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future
Your skills are the key to your growth. Working across borders and disciplines, we share knowledge and build positive relationships with colleagues and customers. You bring your knowledge and get to learn from the best.
To thrive in this position, we believe that you have good analytical skills, a structured work approach, and can develop practical solutions.
Furthermore, you should have:

• A master's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, or a related discipline with 0-3 years of experience in a financial or data analysis role with a strong process-improvement focus.
• Knack for numbers.
• Advanced Excel skills; familiarity with Power BI is beneficial.
• Experience working with SAP or similar ERP systems.
• A detail-oriented and creative approach, with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments.
• Fluency in English and at least one Scandinavian language.

A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. That is why we say no to fossil-based projects and aspire to have 100 per cent of our revenue come from activities that move our customers towards sustainability.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.
With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America, and India, we are currently 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy, and environment into play.

Got more questions?
If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to our Vice President, Compensation and Master Data Pernille Lading Hedberg at
Get to know us even better at our website, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to do and what life is like at COWI.

Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key.
We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.