Payroll Specialist handling payroll processes and managing client inquiries for LOHNunion in Kiel, Germany. Collaborating with team members and ensuring compliance with regulations in payroll management.
About the role
- Lead Payroll Specialist handling complex payrolls and supporting a team in Langen. Ensuring compliance with regulations and maintaining high quality in payroll processes for client satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- As Lead Payroll Specialist you are the central subject-matter authority for payroll at the Langen location.
- Your focus is on independently executing complex payroll calculations and on the technical direction and support of the payroll team.
- You support a team of currently 10 Payroll Specialists as the technical point of contact, mentor and sparring partner.
- You ensure compliance with statutory requirements and drive the continuous improvement of processes.
- In addition to your technical leadership role, you personally manage a selected portfolio of clients and carry out their payrolls independently.
- In technically demanding situations and escalations, you apply your expertise purposefully and support both the team and clients with solution-oriented advice.
Requirements
- Excellent knowledge of tax and social security law
- Strong user-level experience with a payroll system, ideally PROVIA
- Experience in a technical leadership role (e.g., Senior, Expert, Mentor)
- Strong communication and advisory skills with both team and clients
- Structured, solution-oriented and quality-conscious approach to work
- Several years of solid experience in payroll processing
Benefits
- Technical responsibility: Independently conducting complex payroll processing for selected clients
- Technical management and quality assurance of payroll processes at the location
- Point of contact (m/f/d) for complex payroll, tax and social security questions
- Support for the team in special cases, audits, and escalations
- Analysis and continuous optimization of payroll and service processes
- Ensuring a consistent professional quality level
- Technical guidance, coaching and knowledge transfer within the payroll team
- Support in the technical onboarding of new employees
- Cross-site exchange with other Senior Payroll Specialists to promote knowledge transfer
- Close collaboration with the Head of Customer Service as a technical sparring partner
- Participation in employee discussions, feedback and development meetings in coordination with the Head of Customer Service
- Technical input on personnel decisions without sole disciplinary responsibility
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