Manager Payroll Germany

Your responsibilities:

• Functional and disciplinary leadership of direct reports.
• Responsible for all activities performed by the team members, including accurate and timely Time Management and Payroll run, Payroll Reporting, pre and post payroll run activities.
• Responsible for the Time Management and Payroll systems in use.
• Initiate, manage, drive and own improvements to processes and systems.
• Project lead for technical and functional payroll projects, such as payroll system implementation or process harmonization.
• Support the Global HR & Payroll management.
• Function as the first level of escalation for functional and disciplinary issues.
• Identifying and initiating continuous improvements to services and processes in coordination with the responsible manager.
• Ensuring the quality of team performance and initiating quality improvement measures.
• Assessment of risks in own area of responsibility and implementation or recommendation of suitable countermeasures.
• Representation of the organization when talking to cross-functional stakeholders, business partners and external groups.
• Responsible for processes in a highly complex environment including complex systems.
• Advising managers and HR staff on questions relating to the area of responsibility.
• Correspondence with employees, external bodies and authorities.
• Project work with relevant topic.

Our requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Business, Accounting, or Finance is required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in German payroll, preferably without a vendor.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in team management (team of min. 5 people).
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in project management, process management, risk management, quality management & compliance, data protection & IT security.
• Experience with German tariff agreements.
• Experience with various Time Management and PY systems.
• Experience with Workday (HCM) preferred.
• Process and solution-oriented thinking and acting.
• Able to analyze and evaluate issues with regard to legal and internal company processes.
• Personality with the necessary sensitivity for dealing with other cultures.
• Thorough and meticulous with a good feel for facts and numbers.
• Proactive and independent way of working.
• Reliability, ability to work in a team, high level of commitment and flexibility and well versed in dealing with customers and employees.
• Good communication with various departments.
• Knowledge and experience in people management.
• Substantial knowledge of the German tax and social security law.
• Good understanding of the tariff system and local shop agreements in Germany.
• Good understanding of the dependencies and cooperation of payroll, finance and controlling
• PC skills (Word, Excel, Power Point etc.).
• German – fluent
• English – fluent