Finance & Payroll Consultant – Portuguese Market

Hello!

At Factorial were looking for a Finance & Payroll Consultant for the Portuguese Market (based in Barcelona or Madrid with focus on Portugal) to ensure our clients get a world-class optimisation experience across both our Compensation and Finance Management solutions.

Ready to be part of the challenge

About the Role

You will support clients in Portugal throughout their implementation and adoption of Factorials Payroll and Finance modules. Your mission is to deeply understand their processes ensure a smooth transition to our tools and help them achieve maximum efficiency in payroll operations expense management and finance workflows.

Youll join a growing multicultural consulting team across Payroll Finance and Talenthelping us scale the Portuguese market and shaping service packages that drive real long-term value.

As a key subject-matter expert you will provide strategic support to internal teams implementation partners and clients. One of your greatest challenges will be to ensure our product fully adapts to each customers needs. Youll become an expert in Portuguese payroll and finance processes identify inefficiencies detect product improvement opportunities and act as a trusted advisor to clients.

What Will You Be Doing

Payroll Consulting & Enablement

• Support new clients in Portugal in implementing our payroll product via video calls and email until Factorial is fully set up in their organisation.
• Guide clients through payroll configuration: working time management integrations employee master data contract types (contratos de trabalho) and compliance workflows.
• Ensure correct setup aligned with Segurança Social IRS (retenção na fonte) and other statutory requirements.
• Take a consultative approach to tailor payroll setup to each organisations needs.
• Detect edge cases propose solutions or workarounds and escalate when necessary.

Finance Consulting & Enablement

Help clients implement and optimise Factorials Finance Management solutions across:

• Expense management (gestão de despesas)
• Approval workflows & internal finance policies
• Procurement / Accounts Payable (compras / contas a pagar)
• Financial reporting and workspace insights
• Train finance teams share best practices and support process automation.
• Design scalable finance & payroll service packagesfrom discovery to training to advisory.

Product Collaboration

• Act as a bridge between clients and the Product team.
• Share insights on Portuguese payroll requirements including legal obligations reporting needs and recurring customer pain points.
• Participate in testing feedback and feature validation for both Payroll and Finance domains.

Customer Partnership

• Understand each clients challenges and provide actionable recommendations.
• Support clients in remaining compliant with Portuguese labour law (Código do Trabalho) tax requirements and internal finance policies.
• Help ensure readiness for audits and reporting obligations (e.g. submissions related to Segurança Social and tax authorities).
• Work cross-functionally with Sales Customer Success and Support to ensure a smooth and aligned client journey.

Your Profile

Must-Have

• Strong knowledge of Portuguese payroll processes including:

  • Segurança Social contributions
  • IRS withholding (retenção na fonte)
  • Contract types and employee lifecycle
  • Collective agreements (contratos coletivos de trabalho)

• Professional experience in finance operations or finance consulting (expenses procurement reporting or similar).

• Languages: Native-level Portuguese fluent English.

• Experience supporting clients implementing software (SaaS/ERP) or consulting.

• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate business processes into system configuration.

• Fast learner: able to quickly master Factorials tools and adapt to product evolution.

• Proactive structured and comfortable taking ownership end-to-end.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with Portuguese payroll tools (Primavera PHC Sage etc.).
• Experience with finance software or integrations (Business Central Sage Power BI).
• Background in HRIS payroll finance digitalisation or process automation.
• Experience designing or delivering scalable service packages.

About us

At Factorial were building the leading business management software for companies of all sizes. Our platform centralizes key workflows across HR finance and operations freeing teams from manual processes so they can focus on what really matters: leading growing and taking care of their over 1200 employees across 7 markets we serve 700000 users and are one of Europes fastest-growing SaaS companies backed by top-tier investors and proudly headquartered in believe in bold goals radical ownership and inclusive collaboration. If youre excited to shape the future of business management technology wed love to meet you.

Our Values

• We own it: We take responsibility for every project. We make decisions not excuses.
• We learn and teach: Were dedicated to learning something new every day and above all share it.
• We partner: Every decision is a team decision. We trust each other.
• We grow fast: We act fast. We think that the worst mistake is not learning from them.
• We believe in diverse talent: We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strongly encourage people of diverse experiences and identities to apply.
• We believe in inclusion: We are committed to equal opportunities and actively promote workplace inclusion of people with disabilities. If you would like to learn more about our inclusive recruitment processes you are welcome to indicate so optionally and we will share additional information with you.

Wanna learn more about us Check our website !

Perks of being part of our team We care about people and we also offer a lot of benefits for employees:

• High growth multicultural and friendly environment
• Alan as private health insurance
• Healthy life with Wellhub (Gyms pools outdoor classes)
• Save expenses with Cobee
• Language classes
• Breakfast in the office and organic fruit
• Nora discounts
• Free caffeine and theine
• Pet Friendly