Payroll Specialist, HR Payroll Specialist
Columbus McKinnon
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Künzelsau • 🇩🇪 Germany
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JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Independently and responsibly process payroll for a defined area, ensuring compliance with current social security, wage tax, and collective bargaining/tariff law requirements and guidelines
- Maintain employee master data and time-recording systems from onboarding to offboarding
- Serve as a knowledgeable point of contact for employees and managers on wage tax, social security, and collective bargaining/tariff law matters
- Prepare all payroll-relevant data on time, including month-end and year-end closing activities, taking SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) requirements into account
- Support the preparation of reports and assist during audits and inspections
- Correspond with authorities, health insurance funds, insurers, and other agencies
- Produce statistics, analyses, and certification documents
- Maintain personnel files
Requirements
- Completed commercial or tax-related vocational training, ideally supplemented by further qualification as a payroll accountant or HR clerk
- Proven professional experience in payroll accounting and the ability to independently clarify and process payroll-related issues
- Comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge of wage tax, social security, and employment law; ideally initial experience with the ERA collective agreement (metal and electrical industry)
- Experience with common payroll software and with time-recording systems
- Ideally experience with SAP SuccessFactors and ADP/LOGA
- High self-motivation, commitment, and the ability to think cross-functionally, combined with reliability and trustworthiness
- Enjoys working in a team and exchanging information with colleagues
- Very good German and English skills, both written and spoken
- Confident user of MS Office products, particularly MS Excel
Benefits
- Permanent position
- A varied and challenging role in an international, future-oriented company where you can contribute your expertise and continue to learn
- Open and friendly working atmosphere
- A supportive and motivated team
- Attractive compensation including social benefits in accordance with the collective agreement of the metal and electrical industry (Tarifvertrag Metall- und Elektroindustrie)
- Comprehensive onboarding and colleagues available to support you with questions
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
payroll accountingwage taxsocial securityemployment lawtime-recording systemsmonth-end closingyear-end closingSOX compliancestatistical analysiscertification documents
Soft skills
self-motivationcommitmentcross-functional thinkingreliabilitytrustworthinessteamworkcommunication
Certifications
commercial vocational trainingtax-related vocational trainingpayroll accountant qualificationHR clerk qualification