[Hiring] Senior Payroll Specialist @Strada Global

Role Description

The primary focus of the Senior HR & Payroll Specialist will be to support the activities for the German payroll life cycle accurately and timely. You will have a key role in the support of all payroll activities in addition to providing support to the payroll team. As the Senior Specialist, you will be expected to upskill and develop colleagues through training delivery and coaching to enable them to fulfill their role while performing champion responsibilities for innovation.

• Supporting German payroll and the payroll team from end to end according to the defined standards and client requirements including all associated payroll tasks and transactions.
• Undertaking, supporting and managing a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) when an issue occurs resulting in a client escalation ensuring that mitigating actions are implemented.
• Pro-actively identifying upsell opportunities and supporting the Change Request process when deviations from the contractually defined standard scope of service are identified. This may include, but is not limited to, estimating and implementing changes.
• Understand standard and client specific payroll reports including statutory year end reporting needs as required by the customer contract and scope of service.
• Maintaining current knowledge of legislation requirements; system updates, changes and overall payroll procedures while managing the payroll legislation road map.
• Answering payroll related questions and requests from the team and from clients; supporting the Operations Manager with client engagement activities.
• Ability to recognize and deal appropriately with sensitive and confidential information.
• Ability to resolve and support technical and functional issues escalated from other team members and clients.
• Supporting and maintaining the client solution workbook and provision functional support as needed.
• Supporting and guiding project implementations and go-lives.
• Participating in projects and activities as needed and assigned.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years relevant experience administering Payroll in an HR consulting, HR Outsourcing or Corporate environment.
• Fluent English skills; German skills would be an asset.
• Ability to collaborate and work in a team environment, as well as independently while adhering to processes and procedures.
• Ability to identify and mitigate risks.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office tools such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Flexibility to support a global and fast paced environment.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Self-motivated and a willingness to learn.

Benefits

• Remote work.
• Language Allowance.
• Private medical care.
• Possibility for development within a multinational organization.
• Attractive benefits package.