ROLE

Reporting to the Payroll Supervisor. Being responsible for the payroll of up to 150 staff and liaising with the Outsourced Partner within Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH).
Full responsibility for the input to ADP for monthly payroll of salaried and hourly paid employees.
Ensuring that interfaces from Merlin and Time & Attendance systems have processed correctly and that any failures of the files are corrected and resubmitted.
Manual upload of employee personal tax and social insurance information to the ADP system.
Receipt of documentation from German & Swiss employees and filing and maintenance of same for payroll records and for audit purposes.
Fully responsible for checking of trial and final payroll outputs.
Gross to net reports.
Weekly and monthly costing and deduction reports plus the reconciliation of same.
Month end reporting and posting of payroll to SAP general ledger.
Dealing with queries from employees, Hr, Supervisors, managers and the local government offices.
Recording and reporting of clocking hours and holiday balances.
Implementing and maintaining controls over all documentation and processes in line with SOX requirements.
Tax year end experience.
Covering for other payroll functions where necessary.

REQUIREMENTS

Fluency in German.
Experience of German and/or Swiss Payroll processes desirable.
Qualified accountant.
Must be capable of dealing with high volume and regular changes in volume.
Good Organisation Skills.
Excellent Communicator.
Ability to meet tight deadlines.
Excellent team player.