Senior HR & Payroll Specialist with German

Senior HR & Payroll Specialist with German

The primary focus of the Senior 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.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting payroll and the payroll team from end to end according to the defined standards and client requirements including all associated payroll tasks and transaction
• 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
• Ensuring compliant use of all systems
• Participating and championing innovation activities to drive continuous improvement
• Supporting and guiding project implementations and go-lives
• Participating in projects and activities as needed and assigned

Requirements:

• Very good German and English skills (B2 minimum)
• 3-4 years relevant experience administering Payroll in an HR consulting, HR Outsourcing or Corporate environment
• 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
• Ability to collaborate and work in a team environment, as well as independently while adhering to processes and procedures

We offer:

• Remote work
• Interesting career development opportunities within company
• Language courses bailout and language allowances
• Private medical care in Lux Med
• Access to MyBenefit platform (including MultiSport card)
• Group life insurance

Important:

Your candidacy is currently being considered for a requisition for an Alight Inc group company. As you may be aware, Alight has announced intent to divest its Payroll & Professional Services business to HIG Capital. After the transaction closes, this position will be aligned to the new Payroll & Professional Services owned by HIG Capital ('Divested Group'). By applying for this position which will be with the Divested Group company, you understand and agree to the information you submitted for your application with Alight being shared with the Divested Group company. In addition, if you are made an offer of employment, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with the Divested Group company employment policies.

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate's experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight_Benefits

DISCLAIMER:

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
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