Site Name: Costa Rica - Cartago - Tres Rios Posted Date: Aug 12 2025 Are you passionate about payroll management and compliance? Join GSK as a Payroll Specialist, where you will play a pivotal role in managing end-to-end payroll processes for our Central American markets. This position provides an exciting opportunity to ensure accurate and timely payroll operations while driving continuous improvement and maintaining high standards of compliance. Your Responsibilities: This role gives YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, including: Process and review employee payroll, ensuring timely and accurate payments, maintaining precise records, and ensuring compliance with local tax laws. Prepare and submit essential payroll reports, including tax filings and year-end documentation, while safeguarding payroll data and adhering to retention policies. Reconcile payroll accounts, resolve discrepancies, and provide timely responses to employee inquiries regarding payroll matters. Stay informed of evolving laws and regulations, ensuring compliance, supporting external audits, and participating in process improvement initiatives. Run payroll system interfaces with ERP systems and generate manual journal entries and accruals related to payroll. Why You? We are looking for professionals with the following characteristics to help us achieve our goals: Bachelor's degree or advanced student in Accounting or Finance. 2-4 years of experience in payroll processing and payroll tax accounting. Expertise in payroll processes and tax regulations across Central American countries, Knowledge of IFRS standards is preferred. Proficiency in payroll systems and ERP platforms such as SAP. Intermediate to advanced English language skills. Strong Microsoft Excel skills for data analysis, forecasting, and reconciliation. Why GSK? Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology). Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together. Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. Our inclusive workplace makes our employees feel engaged by the contribution they make, by affording them equal treatment regardless of actual or perceived characteristics. As so, when you apply for a job at GSK, it is not necessary to include on your resume information such as: race, color, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, origin, photographs or any other personal characteristics. Find out what life at GSK is really like www.gsk.com.