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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! \nAbout the Team\nCOWI'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.\nOver 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.\nJoin our Master Data & Payroll Team in Lyngby\nWe 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.\nApproximately 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.\nYou 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.\nOn a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for:\nManaging payroll and people data, and related processes while ensuring compliance with local legislation, governance requirements, and audit standards. \nMaintaining accurate and high-quality people master data to support effective workforce management and reporting. \nManaging process optimization, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives across payroll and people operations.\nSupporting digitalization, automation, and system-related projects, including payroll, compliance, and HR data initiatives.\nContributing to global time registration programs and other cross-functional people operations projects and rollouts.\nDelivering analysis and operational support to HR, Finance, leaders, and employees while collaborating with stakeholders across multiple countries to implement best practices. \nYour skills. Our team. Together we design the future\nYour 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.\nFurthermore, you should have:\nA degree within Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a similar discipline with minimum 1 years of relevant professional experience. \nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement capabilities, with experience working with data to drive operational excellence. \nSolid understanding of accounting principles, financial processes, governance, and compliance requirements, with the ability to interpret legislation, regulations, and business needs. \nStrong 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. \nEffective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions, departments, and international teams. \nA curious and collaborative mindset, with a willingness to learn and fluency in both English and Danish.\nA place to work and so much more\nAt 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.\nWe value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. 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