Payroll Specialist.

After completing the programme, the student will have knowledge of: - Specialised knowledge of payroll administration governed by laws, collective agreements and local agreements - The monthly and annual routines of the payroll process - Specialised system knowledge of payroll, time, travel and HR systems and their connection to business systems - Labour law: the structure of the labour market, forms of employment and labour laws - Specialised knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting at a basic level - English terms in payroll administration - Confidentiality, GDPR, and access rights and security for systems in the payroll process - Communication theory models, rhetoric and body language - An advisory and service-minded approach - HR accounting - The opportunities of digitalisation for the professional role - Reporting pensionable pay - Collectively agreed insurance - Staff employed abroad After completing the programme, the student will have the skills to: - Carry out payroll administration in line with laws, collective agreements or local agreements - Carry out payroll administration tasks according to the monthly and annual routines of the payroll process - Carry out payroll administration in a payroll system with feeder systems, and interpret and extract reports from the systems - Configure, interpret and verify system settings in payroll and feeder systems so that the applicable rules in laws, collective agreements etc. are followed - Understand and interpret labour law texts - Book payroll entries and describe cost reports from payroll runs - Handle information about staff and pay in line with confidentiality, access rights and GDPR - Independently carry out oral and written communication in both Swedish and English - Analyse staff statistics and turnover, and their measures, causes and costs - Take part in preparing HR financial calculations - Analyse sickness absence and sickness absence patterns - Work in a consultative way based on their own specialist expertise - Work with continuous improvement After completing the programme, the student will have the competence to: - Independently carry out payroll administration and take responsibility for interpreting and applying labour legislation, rules and collective agreements - Independently carry out tasks according to the monthly and annual routines of the payroll process and work with run schedules for annual and monthly routines - Independently set up, identify and work with payroll controls - Give advice when different situations arise around payroll calculations etc. and propose measures - Independently map and analyse payroll routines using key performance indicators, and be able to see and propose opportunities for improvement - Independently handle and troubleshoot payroll-related bookkeeping, and communicate and explain any discrepancies and imbalances - Develop and evaluate payroll processes, and draw up requirement specifications and documentation to make use of the opportunities of digitalisation - Independently analyse and ensure that confidentiality, GDPR and access rights for personal data and payroll-related documents comply with laws and guidelines - With a strong service focus, help develop the consultative aspect of the professional role - Independently analyse the results of HR financial reports