Associate Admin & Payroll (m/f/d)

Field of Work: Human Resources,
Location: Berlin 
Legal Entity: KWS Berlin GmbH 
Contract Type: Regular
Is Full Time: Yes
Job ID: 16475

For KWS Berlin GmbH, we are looking for a Senior Payroll Specialist (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 incl. data maintenance in SAP-HCM


• Prepares and controls figures regarding mass salary increases, individual increases, benefit changes, absences, leaves, and other relevant data


• Manages confidential information and provides tax and social insurance data to government authorities


• Creates, generates and distributes reports and dashboards (regular and ad-hoc)


• Collaborates closely with Finance, Controlling (e.g., for reconciliation of payroll accounting data)


• Supports employees in time data recording, maintenance, and monitoring


• Implements all pension schemes and other benefits in the payroll process


• Works daily with different vendors to ensure close collaboration and quality of the services provided


• Executes processes in accordance with local legislation and company policies


• Collaborates with BPs by providing support regarding workers council, unions and other official documentation


• Safeguards employee privacy where appropriate, including confidentiality and protection of sensitive information

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

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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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