International Payroll Lead/Analyst, Toku

• The successful candidate needs to be able to deliver on setting up processes, entities and best practices, whilst balancing the needs of the BAU processes, with minimal supervision
• Strong German payroll experience with a minimum of three years
• Solid functional knowledge of payroll processing and best practices
• Excellent attention to detail and highly numerate
• Capable of working independently whilst using own initiative, as well as a member of the team and in partnership with external vendors
• Strong organisational and time management skills and the ability to work in an agile environment whilst remaining flexible and adaptable to change
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and fluency in German and English
• Uses initiative to solve problems
• Critical thinking: questions the why and the how, thinks about impact for the future
• Strong knowledge of Excel and Google sheets

Desirable

• Toku is looking for an experienced payroller to assist our Payroll team in all BAU aspects of payroll as well as key projects and initiatives
• They will be the lead on all German payrolls and be point of contact for additional
• Liaise with internal stakeholders to verify, collect and organise payroll data before submitting to payroll providers/processing payroll with localised software
• Prepare data for submission to the suppliers via various methods across multiple countries
• Liaise with payroll providers on submissions and deal with any related queries
• Review and reconcile payroll data within agreed upon timeframes ensuring employees and third parties, get paid accurately, compliantly and in a timely fashion
• First line contact for queries from internal employees, external contributors, internal partners and vendors
• Address inquiries from various internal teams, such as HR, finance, etc
• Ensure up to date records, processes and procedures
• Ensure implementation new country payrolls compliantly and efficiently
• Ensure smooth transitions of current providers to new providers
• Able to troubleshoot, take ownership and resolve issues from start to end
• Provide cover support as and when required