Payroll Controller

We are seeking a highly skilled Payroll Controller to join our team at Wilhelmsen Ship Management. As a Payroll Controller, you will be responsible for ensuring accurate and timely wage payments to seafarers, handling taxation matters, and social cases for all seafarers on Norwegian terms and conditions.

The Payroll Controller will be responsible for:

• Arranging monthly payroll for seafarers
• Tax and governmental reporting for Norwegian and non-Norwegian personnel
• Familiarization with relevant rules and regulations regarding employee tax reporting, and implementation of same
• Update tariff wages (NOR/NIS), and updating of the accounting payroll system (OCS)
• Reconciliation of monthly leave days
• Reconciliation OCS/SAP, OCS/Altinn
• Prepare/follow up income overview for crew on seismic vessels in operation on foreign continental shelves for taxation purpose
• Travel expenses
• Cost control/reasonable test for all vessels after payroll
• Closed cooperation with crewing department, manning offices, payroll office in Asia, vessels, crewing agencies and authorities

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Education and/or experience from accounting, preferably from the maritime/offshore industry
• Experience from payroll, preferably from seafarers
• Experience with account reconciliations, annual reporting, and project payroll concepts
• Extensive experience of Norwegian and international tax law
• Some experience and knowledge about Norwegian social security exposure for European residents working on Norwegian flagged vessels
• Ability to inform Marine HR leaders about risks and benefits on actual payroll costs, and advise on possible strategic changes that affect payroll costs
• Experience with the various pension schemes and connected laws (MPK, OTP)
• Ability to work on own initiative and in a team
• Systematic, self-driven, proactive, problem solver
• Good command of written and spoken Norwegian and English language
• Good communicative and co-operative skills
• Ability to identify improvement potentials
• Good IT/Computer knowledge and skills

By joining Wilhelmsen Ship Management, you will be part of an organization with a truly global footprint and be part of an international environment striving for the success of our customers. You will be working with continuously new challenges and be the front runner of finding new and efficient ways of working.

The company offers a wide range of sport and social activities, and also has several cabins that are available to rent.