Payroll Implementation Country Lead
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GermanyFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementSAPMicrosoft ExcelGoogle Sheets
Requirements
- Extensive experience in payroll operations, payroll implementation, or payroll consulting environments.
- Strong expertise in country-specific payroll legislation and compliance requirements, particularly within Italy payroll environments.
- Hands-on experience implementing payroll systems such as Zucchetti Paghe Infinity, including configuration, migrations, validation, and go-live activities.
- Deep understanding of payroll foundations including accruals, year-to-date handling, tax structures, social contributions, and payroll reconciliation processes.
- Experience managing complex onboarding projects, mid-year transitions, and parallel payroll runs.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, timelines, and priorities in remote environments.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail and process improvement mindset.
- Proficiency with payroll and reporting tools such as SAP, Excel, and Google Sheets.
- Ability to communicate complex payroll and technical information clearly to both internal teams and customers.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and operations.
- Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken.
- Comfortable working in asynchronous, international, and fast-paced remote environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end payroll implementation projects, including discovery, requirements gathering, system configuration, data migration, testing, parallel runs, and go-live support.
- Conduct in-depth due diligence on customer payroll structures, ensuring accurate setup of payroll rules, accruals, tax and social security requirements, allowances, and country-specific regulations.
- Manage payroll data migration activities, including mapping, validation, reconciliation, and loading of historical payroll information.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for customers throughout the implementation lifecycle, communicating complex payroll concepts in a clear and structured manner.
- Collaborate closely with operations, product, engineering, and implementation teams to improve tools, templates, automation processes, and operational efficiency.
- Plan and execute payroll testing cycles, ensuring successful validation and reconciliation before production launch.
- Create and maintain detailed project plans, documentation, and standard operating procedures to ensure smooth transitions into payroll operations.
- Support implementation specialists and broader payroll teams through mentoring, knowledge sharing, and process guidance.
- Monitor KPIs, SLAs, and implementation quality metrics to ensure successful and timely project delivery.
- Participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) activities and contribute to platform improvements and product enhancements.
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