The challenge ahead

At BHP Chile, you will play a key role in delivering an accurate, timely, and compliant payroll experience for employees across South America. You will contribute to strengthening payroll governance, maintaining robust controls, and identifying opportunities to improve processes and employee experience.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with global payroll teams and HR Payroll teams to enhance payroll execution, support process standardization, and help embed best practices. Your expertise will contribute to operational excellence while ensuring payroll activities meet regulatory requirements and organizational standards.

Safety, integrity, collaboration, and continuous improvement will be at the center of everything you do, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on both employees and the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute payroll validation activities, including review of payroll variances, exceptions, reconciliations, and high-risk transactions, to ensure accurate, compliant, and timely payroll outcomes.
• Coordinate payroll corrections and issue resolution with payroll operations teams, maintaining accurate records and providing reporting to support payroll approval and decision-making.
• Investigate payroll incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions to reduce recurrence.
• Maintain payroll governance, controls, and compliance with legislative requirements, collective agreements, company policies, Tax Year-End activities, and regulatory reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance payroll accuracy, efficiency, controls, and employee experience.
• Provide payroll subject matter expertise, stakeholder support, and training to HR, Payroll, and business teams.

What we expect from you

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
• 7+ years of payroll experience, including payroll taxation, social security, benefits, and payroll reconciliations.
• Strong knowledge of Chilean labor legislation and payroll regulatory requirements.
• Experience managing high-volume payrolls in multinational organizations and collaborating with global payroll teams.
• Proven experience in payroll governance, compliance, controls, and stakeholder management.
• Advanced Excel skills and hands-on experience with SAP HCM.
• Advanced  English, both written and spoken.
• Knowledge of Power BI, SuccessFactors/Employee Central, South American payrolls, Payroll/Labor Law specialization, and mining industry experience are desirable.

Location: Santiago

Hybrid work model: 2 days working from home and 3 days at the office.