Role Summary

About the role

Do you enjoy working with payroll end-to-end, combining accuracy with great stakeholder service? In this role, you will support employees and managers across Scania Sweden and help ensure a high-quality, compliant and efficient payroll process. With around 23,000 payslips processed each month and multiple system integrations, you’ll work with a varied workload that ranges from day-to-day case handling to process improvements.

What we offer

You will join a collaborative Payroll team with payroll administrators and specialists, supported by colleagues in Poland who handle travel expenses and time system support. We work in a service-oriented culture where professionalism and accessibility matter. You’ll have broad cross-functional exposure, opportunities to develop your skills, and a flexible working model including the option to work remotely a couple of days a week.

Benefits include wellness allowance, bonus, flexible hours, and company car leasing. We also host events for employees and their families, and Stockholm residents enjoy direct access to Södertälje via Scania Job express buses for an easy commute to Södertälje.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage payroll cases end-to-end, including new hires, employment changes and terminations, absences, allowances, deductions and other payroll inputs
• Provide day-to-day support and guidance to employees and managers
• Perform quality checks to ensure accurate payroll input and output
• Maintain payroll-related documentation and records
• Contribute to continuous improvement by being an active participant in development initiatives within the team
• Contribute and represent Payroll in different projects related to digitalization, automation and process improvements
• Support yearly activities such as calendar-year and vacation-year transitions
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across Scania and with external parties such as suppliers and authorities when needed

Your Profile

You are structured, communicative and service-minded, with a strong sense of ownership and attention to detail. You enjoy collaborating in a team environment and you care about quality, compliance and continuous improvement.

Required qualifications

• Vocational higher education qualification in payroll (YH, 1.5–2 years) and at least 2 years of end-to-end payroll experience, or 5+ years of operational payroll experience
• Good knowledge of payroll-related laws and regulations
• Experience working with different collective bargaining agreements
• Professional proficiency in both Swedish and English (written and spoken)
• Strong collaboration skills and a proactive, service-oriented approach

Nice to have

• Experience with the SD Worx payroll system
• Experience working under the Engineering Agreement (Teknikavtalet)

About the team

Payroll is one of five departments within People Services Sweden and includes 24 colleagues. The team combines a wide range of experience and expertise, with a supportive culture where we help each other out and share knowledge.

Additional information

This is a permanent, full-time position based in Södertälje, Sweden. A background check will be carried out as part of the recruitment process.

Application

We look forward to receiving your application, consisting of your CV and kindly ask you not to share a cover letter to ensure an efficient and unbiased recruitment process for all parties. 
 
Apply as soon as possible, no later than 2026-06-02. Screening will take place on an ongoing basis during the application period. Logical and personality tests may be used as part of the selection process, and a background check may be required for this role. 
 
If you have questions or would like more information, please contact:  

the hiring manager, Erika Dahlgren: erika.dahlgren@scania.com.