Kering Payroll Specialist
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Mid-Level
- Department
- Human Resources, People & Culture
- Posted
- Sep 17, 2026
About Kering
Kering is a global luxury group renowned for nurturing some of the world’s most influential Houses in fashion, leather goods, jewelry, and eyewear, including Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, and Boucheron. As an employer, Kering offers a distinctive environment where creative excellence, entrepreneurial spirit, and long-term sustainability converge. The Group empowers its talents to shape the future of luxury through innovation, craftsmanship, and responsible business practices. With an international culture grounded in diversity, inclusion, and shared ambition, Kering provides meaningful career opportunities for professionals seeking to contribute to exceptional brands while advancing a more sustainable and imaginative luxury industry.
Payroll Specialist at Kering in Dubai: manage multi-country MEA payroll, vendor coordination, and compliance within HR Shared Services.
Role & Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end monthly payroll cycles for assigned MEA countries, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and full compliance with local labour laws and regulatory requirements
- Coordinate key payroll inputs including hires, exits, salary changes, allowances, deductions, commissions, bonuses, leave calculations, and benefits administration
- Review and validate payroll outputs, resolve discrepancies, and support final settlements, end-of-service benefits, and statutory payments
- Partner with external payroll providers, including ADP and BSH Soft, to ensure smooth payroll execution, issue resolution, and service quality
- Ensure payroll governance and compliance with local labour laws, social security, pension, tax, statutory, data protection, and internal policy requirements
- Prepare, review, and reconcile payroll reports for Finance, internal stakeholders, audits, and statutory obligations
- Maintain accurate payroll records, documentation, checklists, and audit trails, escalating payroll risks or control gaps as required
- Work closely with Finance to ensure payroll costs, liabilities, journals, and payments are accurately reflected and reconciled
- Support month-end, year-end, and statutory payroll activities, investigating and resolving variances in a timely manner
- Act as a payroll subject matter expert and escalation point for employees, Brand HR, and business stakeholders
- Respond to payroll queries clearly, confidentially, and professionally, covering payslips, deductions, leave balances, statutory matters, and final settlements
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate, and strengthen payroll processes across the region
- Support payroll transformation, system enhancements, implementations, country transitions, and process improvement initiatives
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in HR, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of relevant payroll experience, preferably within a multinational organisation or complex shared-services environment
- Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end payroll activities
- Strong Excel and data-analysis skills
- Experience working with external payroll vendors or outsourced payroll providers
- Strong understanding of payroll controls, reconciliations, and compliance
Skills
Experience
5+ years of relevant payroll experience, preferably within a multinational organisation or complex shared-services environment. Demonstrated competency in managing end-to-end payroll activities, working with external payroll vendors, and maintaining robust payroll controls and reconciliations. Multi-country MEA payroll experience and regional HR Operations or Shared Services background are highly desirable.
Education
Bachelor's degree in HR, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline. Payroll certification or professional HR/payroll qualification is desirable.
Workplace
This position is based in Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
Culture
Kering fosters a dynamic, purpose-driven culture where creativity, entrepreneurship, and collaboration support the distinct identities of its luxury Houses. As an employer, the Group places strong emphasis on sustainability, diversity, and talent development, encouraging people to innovate responsibly while contributing to the future of modern luxury.
About Cerulean
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