Payroll Administrator / Lohnbuchhalter

activpayroll; Frankfurt; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payroll management company is seeking a professional to manage payroll processing for a diverse client portfolio based in Frankfurt, Germany. The role includes providing exceptional service, ensuring compliance with regulations, and serving as a key contact for clients and authorities. Ideal candidates should have practical experience in German payroll processing, excellent IT skills, and strong English language proficiency. This position offers hybrid working options and opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Practical experience in German payroll processing.
• Knowledge of wage tax and social security.
• Self-motivated with a passion for payroll.

Responsibilities

• Processing German payroll accounting for various clients.
• Providing excellent customer service for payroll queries.
• Acting as contact for health insurance companies.

Skills

German payroll processing

Regulatory requirements knowledge

Very good IT skills (DATEV, SAP)

Professional English language skills

Commercial or tax-related training

Education

Completed commercial or tax-related training

Tools

DATEV

SAP

Job description

Overview

Description This role forms part of our committed and driven German operational team, who thrive on the excitement of managing a diverse workload, interacting with colleagues and clients and delivering a best in class service. You’ll be responsible for your own client portfolio, which given that we provide our services to a host of some of the world’s most recognisable brands globally, will be varied and full of its own challenges and opportunities to learn. You’ll manage the end to end payroll processing cycle across the portfolio, building great relationships with your clients, understanding their individual needs and working collaboratively to make sure that their people get paid on time, every time.

Department: Operations

Location: Germany

We have an office base in Frankfurt, and offer hybrid working for those who are in this region. We are also open to discussions with candidates in other areas of Germany who may be able to deliver this role remotely.

On a typical day, it looks like this...

• Processing of German payroll accounting for a diverse range of clients of various headcounts and industry types
• Providing excellent customer service to our clients, being proactive to support them with queries and being a specialist resource for German payroll queries
• Acting as the contact person for health insurance companies, regulatory authorities, certification and reporting
• Continuous further development of processes and participation in specialist projects

Does this sound like you?

• Practical experience in German payroll processing and great knowledge of regulatory requirements within payroll, ideally in a bureau environment
• Knowledge of wage tax and social security
• Very good IT skills (DATEV, SAP, LODAS, SBS or similar)
• Strong professional English language skills, both written and verbal, to support our global customer base
• Completed commercial or tax-related training, ideally with additional qualifications in human resources management (e.g. HR specialist)
• Self-motivated with a passion for payroll and service delivery
• Ready to take on a diverse and varied workload, challenging yourself to deliver great service and ensure that keep ourselves and our clients compliant
• Willingness to learn and develop, take on new challenges and be active in supporting our company growth
• A professional attitude with high values of integrity and ethics
• Independent and structured way of working, ability to work in a team, flexibility, high level of commitment and resilience