Hr Payroll Specialist (F/M/D) Limited Contract For 18 Months

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Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. Apply now!

What You'll Do: 
As an HR Payroll Specialist (f/m/d), you will be responsible for the timely and accurate payroll processing for all entities in Germany. You play a crucial role in global and local projects to improve our services, processes, and systems. Your duties will include:

• Performing technical Payroll tasks, such as, but not limited to, tax, social security, maternity, paternity, and others.
• Providing expert advice and support to customers, peers, stakeholders, and managers, particularly on country-specific topics, policies, and local laws.
• Serving as an escalation point for non-standard cases and processes.
• Producing evaluations and generating reports to ensure legal compliance and for conducting internal and external audits.
• Liaising with third parties and external authorities.
• Monitoring defined audit points of payroll transaction services to ensure legal requirements are met.
• Assisting in the implementation of payroll relevant project activities.

What You Bring: 

As an ideal candidate, you possess the following qualifications and skills:

• A minimum of 2 years of working experience in payroll administration.
• Profound knowledge of German Payroll law, practices, and processes.
• Expertise in technical Payroll processing, including all legally required subsequent activities.
• Extensive SAP payroll system knowledge (HCM).
• Fluency in both written and spoken English and German.
• Experience working within an HR customer-oriented environment.
• Advanced skills in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• A university degree or comparable education/experience in Payroll Accounting, Business, or Human Resources Administration.

Meet Your Team:

As a member of the Payroll Germany team, you'll work collaboratively with 19 professional, supportive, and inclusive colleagues who are committed to achieving excellence. Our team consists of both full-time and part-time members and is primarily based in Walldorf. Together, we are responsible for the process of payroll and all supporting tasks for all SAP employees in Germany across various entities. Our goal is to ensure compliant and efficient payroll operations in an open, collaborative work environment.

Additional information: the role is limited as a team member is on maternity/parental leave. We are open for part-time work with at least 75% / 30 working hours per week. 

We build breakthroughs together

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Requisition ID: 386569  | Work Area: Human Resources  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Limited Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid