Payroll Specialist

Job Summary

Are you ready to drive payroll excellence across EMEA while ensuring accurate, compliant, and employee-focused payroll operations?

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.

Food Ingredients: Innovating improved nutritional profiles, better taste and texture and greater cost efficiency to meet the needs of global food and beverage manufacturers.

We are seeking a talented Payroll Specialist to join our team based in Asturias, Spain

The Payroll specialist will be responsible for supporting accurate, compliant, and timely payroll operations across the EMEA region. Acts as the primary payroll subject matter expert while partnering with employees, HR, Finance, payroll vendors, and regional payroll leadership to ensure payroll continuity, compliance, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. The role will be reporting to the Regional Payroll Manager EMEA.

For your awareness, IFF has announced its intention to sell its Food Ingredients Business to CVC Capital Partners. The sale is presently expected to close in the first half of 2027, pending regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. The Food Ingredient business unit will remain a part of IFF until close and, at such time, it will transition to CVC Capital Partners. In applying for this position, you acknowledge your awareness that the position is a part of the Food Ingredient business unit and has been identified to transition to CVC Capital Partners.

Where You’ll Make a Difference

Manage payroll administration and day-to-day payroll operations for a certain cluster of countries in the EMEA region.

Coordinate payroll inputs, processing activities, validations, and payroll outputs with payroll vendors and internal stakeholders.

Validate payroll data, statutory calculations, social contributions, payroll reporting, and country-specific outputs.

Partner closely with HR, Finance, Legal, Total Rewards, Shared Services, and regional payroll leadership to support payroll-related activity.

First 12-Month Objectives

Successfully support payroll continuity and Day 1 readiness for during the transition to a standalone organization.

Establish strong operating relationships with payroll vendors, HR, Finance, Legal, Total Rewards, and regional payroll leadership.

Support payroll stabilization and process improvement initiatives across the EMEA payroll organization.

What Makes You the Right Fit

Demonstrated payroll experience supporting payroll operations. Key countries for this position includes France, Spain and the UK.

Experience supporting payroll operations within unionized, labor-intensive, or employee representative environments.

Experience working with collective bargaining agreements, labor unions, Works Councils, employee representative bodies, or similar workforce governance structures.

Experience partnering with outsourced payroll providers or payroll vendors.

Strong payroll controls, compliance, issue resolution, and problem-solving capability.

Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Strong business English. Fluency in French is also preferred.

How Would You Stand Out?

Experience supporting payroll operations within manufacturing, food ingredients, specialty chemicals, life sciences, or industrial environments.

Experience with ADP, TMF, Workday, or similar payroll and HR technology platforms.

Experience supporting carve-outs, business separations, mergers, acquisitions, or transformation initiatives.

Experience working within a multi-country or regional payroll operating model.

Experience supporting payroll process improvement, automation, documentation, or standardization initiatives.

Why Choose Us?

Flexible Home Office Opportunities - Enjoy the flexibility to work from home and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Training Opportunities - Access a variety of training programs designed to enhance your skills and support your professional growth.

Learning & Development Programs - Benefit from continuous learning initiatives, career development resources, and opportunities to advance within the organization.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more