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German Payroll Team Leader
  • Kraków
German Payroll Team Leader
Kraków, Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Polska
Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
23. 3. 2026
Informacje o stanowisku

German Payroll Team Leader

Miejsce pracy: Kraków

Your 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 a 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.

Our requirements

  • 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

What we offer

  • Private health care and travel insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Cafeteria Platform and sports package
  • Company Pension Benefits – Employee Savings Plan
  • Attractive Employee Referral Bonus Program
  • Additional day off for charity
  • Holiday subsidy („wczasy pod gruszą”)
  • Possibility of working from home

Benefits

  • private medical care
  • life insurance
  • remote work opportunities
  • flexible working time
  • saving & investment scheme
  • corporate library
  • coffee / tea
  • parking space for employees
  • holiday funds
  • employee referral program
  • charity initiatives
  • free German language classes

Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung

Grow with us! Universal Investment is on its way to becoming Europes leading fund services platform and Super ManCo. We have provided innovative fund solutions for asset managers and institutional investors since 1968. We are also well established in Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland and Poland. From here and from our offices in Frankfurt, Krakow, Luxembourg, Dublin, Paris and Stockholm, we continue to expand internationally. We are currently looking for entrepreneurial people who want to grow and share in the profits of our success

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