Payroll Controller, Norway

Company Description

Radisson Hotel Group is one of the world's largest hotel groups with ten distinctive hotel brands, and more than 1,500 hotels in operation and under development in 95+ countries. The Group’s overarching brand promise is Every Moment Matters with a signature Yes I Can! service ethos.

Job Description

We are now looking for a Payroll Controller to join our finance team in Radisson Hotel Group! As our Payroll Controller, Norway, you will play a key role in ensuring accurate, timely and compliant payroll across our Norwegian entities. Working closely with HR, Operations, Accounting, HR Tech/IT and our external payroll provider, you will bring strong Norwegian payroll expertise, robust controls and a continuous-improvement mindset to the end-to-end payroll process.

Key responsibilities

• Own the monthly pre- and post-payroll control process, reconciling variances and driving corrective actions with external payroll provider.
• Ensure accurate calculation and processing of salaries, overtime, allowances, holiday pay, leave balances and statutory deductions.
• Calculate HR provisions and accruals and manage monthly payroll allocations.
• Validate employee master data, employee lists and cost-allocation structures.
• Ensure full compliance with Norwegian payroll legislation and applicable collective agreements.
• Oversee key Norwegian payroll processes, including NAV sick pay applications and refunds, pension reporting, AFP/AGA and A-melding submissions.
• Act as the key contact for auditors, statistical reporting and external payroll-related enquiries.
• Manage the relationship with our external payroll provider, including SLA follow-up, quality management, escalation of issues and reduction of rework and additional service charges.
• Coordinate Timeplan – payroll provider – SAP integration topics, including interfaces, field mapping, testing and defect resolution.
• Own monthly reconciliations of payroll-related balance sheet accounts and ensure aged items are investigated and cleared.
• Import and validate statistical metrics in SAP and perform plan-versus-actual checks.
• Maintain and strengthen the payroll control framework, including master-data changes, payroll calendars and approval processes.
• Identify end-to-end process gaps and drive continuous improvement, efficiency and risk reduction.