Senior Associate Payroll: Germany (m/f/d)

Senior Associate Payroll: Germany (m/f/d)

Field of Work:  Human Resources
Location: 

Berlin, BE, DE

Legal Entity:  KWS Berlin GmbH (0017)
Contract Type:  Regular
Is Full Time?:  Yes
Onsite/ Remote:  Hybrid Working Within Country
Job ID:  15426

For KWS Berlin GmbH, we are looking for an Senior Associate Admin & Payroll (m/f/d) for our Berlin office in order to support our business units in Germany. If you are interested in working independently and service-oriented, and if you have already demonstrated that you are self-motivated, a team player, and flexible, we look forward to getting to know you soon. This job is full-time and unlimited.

 

Your tasks:

  • Responsible for preparing and processing on-cycle and off-cycle payrolls, managing follow-ups with SAP-HCM, supporting standard payroll tasks (e.g. data maintenance), and acting as backup during absences
  • Key User SAP-HCM (PA/PY): identifies needs, creates change requests, aligns implementation with IT, external providers and process testing
  • Serves as the key contact for HR reporting in Germany, developing and delivering a standard reporting catalogue while handling ad-hoc requests, providing Finance with input for closings, audits, and account reconciliation, and overseeing regular compensation processes such as bonuses payments and tariff changes
  • Interface to social security organizations, benefit provider and ELStAM
  • Works daily with different vendors to ensure close collaboration and quality of the services provided
  • Executes payroll related internal controls
  • Manages confidential information and provides tax and social insurance data to government authorities
  • Collaborates with Business Partners by providing support regarding workers council, unions and other official documentation
  • Coordinates projects within the team

 

Your profile:

  • You already have experience in Payroll and in SAP-HCM. If you have already worked in a shared service environment, even better!
  • For you, teamwork means supporting each other, solving problems together and learning together
  • You are not satisfied with the status quo and you are looking for opportunities to accomplish your tasks better and more efficiently
  • Your "customers" are your colleagues at KWS and it is therefore important to you that they can trust their requests are completed on time, problems are solved fast, and questions are answered quickly
  • You are fluent in German and English, additional languages will be an advantage
     

Your benefits:

  • We are an international team of open-minded people with diverse and cross-functional experience
  • Interesting and challenging tasks and projects
  • As a family business, we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, vision and independence; this culture is lived in practice and ensures an open and friendly working atmosphere from day one
  • The best of both worlds: KWS Berlin combines the security of a large, stable company with the passion of a start-up
  • Our location in the heart of Berlin-Schöneberg is very modern; directly opposite the underground station Bülowstraße and with secured car & bicycle parking spaces
  • We offer 30d holidays, flexible working hours, holiday and Christmas bonuses, company pension scheme, JobRad and/or Jobticket
  • True to our motto "Make yourself grow", we support the professional and personal development of our employees
     

Seed your career by submitting your application today! We are looking forward to your application using our online application system.

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About KWS
KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Nearly 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development. For more information: www.kws.com/career. Follow us on LinkedIn® at https://linkedin.com/company/kwsgroup/.

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