Senior Payroll Specialist (Part - Time)

HR Advisor / Payroll Specialist

Grow with us! We are currently looking for a colleague to join our Human Resources Team.

Responsibilities

• HR Operations Execution: Manage day-to-day HR administrative and operational processes across the employee lifecycle (onboarding, changes, terminations, documentation).
• Payroll Oversight: Manage and control the end-to-end payroll process incl. approving monthly payroll, and collaboration with the external payroll provider to ensure timely and accurate salary processing and accruals and annual and tax audit processes.
• Team Supervision: Lead and support a team of 3 HR Generalists, providing clear responsibilities, guidance, feedback, and workload prioritization.
• Compliance & Policies: Ensure all HR processes comply with German labour law, internal policies, and data protection (GDPR).
• HR Systems & Data: Maintain and update our HR system Workday, ensuring high data quality and supporting HR reporting and analytics (we have an HR Data Analyst in the global team).
• Employee Support: Act as a trusted point of contact for employees and managers on HR operational matters, benefits, and procedures.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for efficiency by simplifying and standardizing HR processes; support HR digitization or automation initiatives to be efficient and scalable in future.
• Collaboration & Projects: Work closely with regional and group HR leadership team and stakeholder on cross-functional initiatives, projects and annual audits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or relevant work experience.
• Minimum 4–6 years of HR experience, including hands‑on HR Operations and payroll coordination in a corporate environment.
• Previous experience in coordinating or supervising HR team members.
• Solid understanding of German payroll processes, labour law, and obligations best in financial services industry.
• Experience with HRIS Workday and MS Office.
• Fluent German and English (spoken and written).
• Customer‑oriented approach, good organizational and communication skills, and ability to handle confidential information with integrity.
• Proactive, reliable, motivating, ensure psychological safety in the team and creating an atmosphere for high performance with a smile.

Benefits

• An exciting working environment and challenging tasks.
• Extensive insight into the European fund industry.
• Friendly, international and goal‑oriented working environment.
• High degree of independent work.
• Corporate benefits and other attractive discounts.
• Free job ticket.
• Home office possibility and time flexibility.

Please note: this is a part‑time 50% position.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Part‑time

Job function

• Human Resources and Finance

Location: Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany