Payroll Specialist

About the role

Boeing Turkey Aviation and Trade is hiring a Payroll Specialist for its Teknopark, Pendik office in Istanbul. The specialist executes and supports payroll for Turkey and smaller regional payrolls (Kenya, Morocco, Ethiopia, South Africa, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan), working with local payroll vendors, external providers and cross-functional teams. The position is an international, locally hired role; benefits and pay are set at local level under Turkish law, and relocation assistance is not offered.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end payroll runs, ensure accuracy and timeliness, and support or validate payrolls in the assigned countries
• Manage pre-payroll validations, data cleansing and exception handling to reduce rework
• Reconcile payroll outputs, investigate post-payroll discrepancies, run root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions
• Coordinate with local and global payroll vendors (e.g. CloudPay, TCS, PwC) and platform owners (Workday, ServiceNow) on integration issues, configuration and incidents
• Maintain country-specific payroll process documentation and transaction-level work instructions
• Support testing and deployment of payroll system changes, patches and enhancements, and document results
• Produce regular payroll reports, track KPIs and escalate trends, risks and compliance issues to the manager
• Support onboarding and training of vendor payroll teams and act as a subject-matter resource for payroll queries
• Ensure compliance with local payroll regulations, tax rules and statutory reporting, and contribute to continuous improvement and automation opportunities

Required profile

• 5+ years of hands-on payroll experience supporting Turkish and other regional payrolls
• 3+ years of practical experience with at least one global payroll platform and vendor-managed environments (CloudPay, PwC, Workday, ServiceNow)
• 3+ years of exposure to payroll reconciliations, statutory compliance and payroll reporting
• Strong knowledge of Turkish payroll legislation, social security, taxes and statutory filings
• Fluency in both English and Turkish is required

Required skills

• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, HR, Business or a related field
• Preferred: familiarity with other regional payrolls (Kenya, Morocco, Ethiopia, South Africa, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan)
• Preferred: gross-to-net calculations, benefits, deductions, off-cycle payments and corrective payroll actions
• Preferred: post-payroll reconciliation, troubleshooting and analytical root-cause techniques
• Preferred: understanding of upstream HR data flows (time and attendance, benefits, HRIS) and downstream integrations to finance and statutory reporting
• Preferred: strong spreadsheet skills and data extraction, manipulation and presentation