Newcastle accounting / finance / banking

German Speaker for payroll

Date posted: Thursday 7th August
Location: Newcastle

German Permanent & Temporary Payroll Service Owners
Salary from £16350 to £18500

As a member of a country payroll team within the EMEA Service Centre, the prime responsibility of the payroll administrator is for the accurate and timely payment of employee salaries. However, the expectation is that the incumbent will also really embrace the desire
to review and change business processes to make payroll services more
efficient and effective.

The role therefore comprises:-

• Ensuring employee master data is correct
• Ensuring all payments and deductions are correct and in line with company policy and country tax legislation
• Owning specific work processes, being the payroll expert in these, and continually assessing to ensure maximum efficiency, and re-engineering if necessary
• Participate in / lead a wide variety of projects that impact payroll
• Continually strive to deliver excellence in Customer Service
• Maintain accurate controls.


All administrators are expected to be skilled in all aspects of their country payroll, enabling them to be able to cover any role. They will also be expected to attain a high level of technical proficiency in the use of SAP payroll, and understand the linkages with other areas of SAP notably Data Management


Skills/Experience

SAP Payroll:
• Acquire technical mastery on SAP payroll, with the ability to identify and offer solutions for basic issues / problems, and to run ad-hoc reports as and when required.


Desirable Skills/Experience
• Highly developed customer service skills and orientation, e.g. communication, empathising, interpersonal skills.
• Creative problem solving.
• Willingness to take the initiative.
• Attention to detail and ability to work with numbers.
• Ability to manage tasks, prioritise activities and achieve deadlines.
• Strong team player.
• IT literacy
• Innovative -continually looking to analyse and improve work processes.
• Solutions - ability to deal with complex issues, identify solutions and implement


Please send your CV in a word doc format to Margaret Dominick
Email dominicm@uk.ibm.com 07smitha@uk.ibm.com Or call 07771503993

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