Payroll Administrator

Payroll Administrator (m-f-d)

Responsibilities:

• Processing the organisations payroll in a timely and accurate manner
• Responsible for the publishing and enforcement of deadlines and cutoffs as required for the running of the payroll process
• Accurately creating and maintaining employee payroll data and records by gathering calculating, inputting and safeguarding data as necessary
• Maintaining the ticketing system which holds request and issues logged by employees
• Adheres to company policies and procedures and complies with relevant laws.
• Highlighting opportunities to deliver improvements to process, procedures to ensure compliance at all times
• Ensuring data is kept in accordance with Sox specified rules and where examples are required for Sox audits these are supplied as requested.
• Responding to payroll related queries from employees, outsourced payroll provider and third party suppliers in a professional, timely and competent manner
• Verifying data for payroll by checking carefully the information received
• Maintaining filing of employee payroll data as required
• Creating reports and distributing as and when required
• Other ad-hoc jobs and actions which are applicable to the payroll function

Skills Required:

• Good written and spoken communication skills in German and English
• Great organisational skills as well as time management skills
• Excellent numeracy and literacy skills
• The ability to work with sensitive matters professionally and confidentially
• The ability to work on own initiative and to tight deadlines
• IT literacy: proficiency in the basic functions of MS Word and experience of using MS Excel at an intermediate level
• Confident when dealing with various software packages, including payroll systems/HR systems/3rd party data systems
• Good team working skills within own team as well as when cross functional working
• 5-8 years’ experience in HR/payroll environment
• A good understanding of local legislation affecting payroll
• Possessing strong payroll skills to enable the full end to end processing of payroll including knowledge of making tax and social security calculations.
• Experience of working with ADP/external payroll service provider preferred.