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Payroll Administrator

Milan, Italy

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job ID 151466BR

Job Status Employee - Permanent

Category Finance

Date posted February 24, 2026

Payroll Administrator

Role: Payroll Administrator
Reports to: Payroll Manager - Italy
Location: Milan

Come and join our large, friendly team that produces Italy Payrolls for Primark

What the successful candidate will be doing:
  • Preparation and checking of high volume payrolls to help ensure that employees are paid accurately and on time.
  • Working flexibly to set deadlines.
  • Following detailed payroll checking procedures across all areas such as report production, payroll checking and correction, sickness processing, etc.
  • Maintaining an allocation of stores by processing information received from People and Culture teams and providing an excellent service to all our customers.
  • Learning and applying Revenue legislation and Primark rules on calculating and entering company & statutory payments.
  • Administration of new starters and leavers including processing starter declarations.
  • Dealing with correspondence enquiries in a timely and efficient manner from stores, tax agency and other third parties.
  • Processing tasks related to garments and payments of pension funds
  • Calculating and administering holiday pay entitlement.
  • Administering deductions and assisting with correspondence and queries on fiscal personnel matters from stores.
  • Learning to calculate small numbers of manual payments and repayments.
  • Administration tasks such as filing and post-sorting of important information from legal mail (PEC).
  • Writing and producing reports using a reporting system and using Excel to carry out some day to day duties.
  • Learning new tasks associated with payroll processing and systems with a view to role development.
  • In due course taking on additional responsibility for other tasks performed by the team.

What Primark is looking for in a candidate:
  • previous experience in payroll possibly from big company or consultancy sector
  • Be accurate and flexible and be comfortable working in a busy environment.
  • Knowledge of English
  • Degree in economic subjects or similar, minimum knowledge of basic accountancy.
  • Knowledge of CCNL Commerce
  • Experience in Retail context


The ideal individual will be:
  • A competent team player with a positive attitude.
  • Organised with good attention to detail.
  • Motivated by ensuring high standards of performance and quality of work achieved.
  • Able to work in a fast paced environment whilst maintaining accuracy
  • Curious, creative and innovative, with personal initiative and Passionate about numbers
  • With inclination to lateral thinking
  • communication skills
  • ability to analyze the data
  • good ability to work in teams
  • desire to learn

This is a unique opportunity to work for a dynamic, fast growing company that invests in
people development and to work on a team with a focus on teamwork and excellence
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