Payroll Specialist, Payroll Accounting
Ruf Lebensmittelwerk KG
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Quakenbrück • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Independently perform payroll processing, including all related pre- and post-processing tasks for a defined group of employees
- Carry out correction runs
- Handle all administrative duties related to payroll accounting, including issuing certificates, maintaining personnel files, correspondence, and preparing statistics and reports
- Support industrial/technical employees in all personnel-related matters
- Maintain master data and record and manage absences
- Manage all formalities related to the onboarding and offboarding of interns
- Perform month-end and year-end closing tasks
- Administer the company pension scheme for all employees
Requirements
- Successfully completed commercial apprenticeship or comparable qualification — ideally with a focus on human resources
- Solid, several years of experience in payroll processing and comprehensive knowledge of German tax law, labor law, and social security law
- Confident user of MS Office and an affinity for digital tools and HR systems (e.g., Hansalog)
- Careful, reliable, and structured way of working
- Open, service-oriented personality with enjoyment of teamwork and interaction with employees and external partners
- High degree of discretion and a good sense for handling confidential information
Benefits
- 30 days of annual leave, and company holiday on December 24 and December 31
- 38-hour workweek and a flexible working time account
- Attractive compensation package: annual special payments, company pension plan, capital-forming benefits (employer contributions), employee discounts, and company bike leasing
- Numerous discounts via the Corporate Benefits platform
- Comprehensive onboarding and a challenging, varied role in a forward-looking company with an open corporate culture
- Regular professional development and training
- A collaborative working atmosphere and a great team that looks forward to welcoming you
- Opportunity to actively contribute your ideas and vision and grow together
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
payroll processingcorrection runsadministrative dutiesmonth-end closingyear-end closingmaster data managementabsence managementonboardingoffboardingGerman tax law
Soft skills
carefulreliablestructuredservice-orientedteamworkinteractiondiscretionconfidentiality
Certifications
commercial apprenticeshiphuman resources qualification