Master Data Specialist
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026. COWI scores A on the Alion truth index.
Master Data and Payroll Specialist
Permanent
Lyngby
Do you thrive in a role that combines payroll, people data, and process improvement? Can you turn complexity into efficient, compliant, and scalable solutions? Are you ready to contribute to digitalization, automation, and continuous improvement across a global organization? If you're ready to create meaningful changes, this opportunity is for you!
About the Team
COWI's Global Payroll and People Master Data team is responsible for payroll operations for Denmark, COWI's largest entity, while supporting payroll governance, compliance, master data management, and process excellence across the Group.
Over the past several years, the team has been on a significant transformation journey, continuously professionalizing, standardizing, digitalizing, and optimizing payroll and people data processes. We are known for delivering stable, high-quality operations while simultaneously driving improvements, system enhancements, compliance initiatives, and global projects.
Join our Master Data & Payroll Team in Lyngby
We are looking for a colleague who is motivated to contribute to both operational excellence and continuous improvement. This specialist role combines payroll and people master data operations with process optimization, compliance, system support, digitalization, and project work.
Approximately 50% of the role focuses on payroll, people master data, and related controls, while the remainder is dedicated to process improvements, automation, compliance, system support, and implementation initiatives.
You will collaborate across countries and functions to ensure efficient day-to-day delivery and streamline payroll and people data processes across the organization. To perform effectively, you should understand current processes and find the best supporting IT solutions. You should be curious to learn the basics.
On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for:
- Managing payroll and people data, and related processes while ensuring compliance with local legislation, governance requirements, and audit standards.
- Maintaining accurate and high-quality people master data to support effective workforce management and reporting.
- Managing process optimization, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives across payroll and people operations.
- Supporting digitalization, automation, and system-related projects, including payroll, compliance, and HR data initiatives.
- Contributing to global time registration programs and other cross-functional people operations projects and rollouts.
- Delivering analysis and operational support to HR, Finance, leaders, and employees while collaborating with stakeholders across multiple countries to implement best practices.
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 degree within Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a similar discipline with minimum 1 years of relevant professional experience.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement capabilities, with experience working with data to drive operational excellence.
- Solid understanding of accounting principles, financial processes, governance, and compliance requirements, with the ability to interpret legislation, regulations, and business needs.
- Strong system skills and affinity for technology including experience with HR, payroll, finance, or reporting systems; Good to have a knowledge of SAP HCM, Maconomy, Power BI, ServiceNow, or similar tools.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions, departments, and international teams.
- A curious and collaborative mindset, with a willingness to learn and fluency in both English and Danish.
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. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.
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 the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 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 VP, Head of Payroll, People Master Data Pernille Lading Hedberg at [email protected].
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to do and what life is like at COWI.
Before you apply
All you need to include in your application is your CV - no photo or application letter. At an interview, you can tell us everything we need to know about why you’re interested in joining COWI. As for the photo, we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture.
Equal - opportunity employer
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.