EMEA Payroll Supervisor - German Speaking

<h2>Overview</h2> <p>The EMEA Payroll Supervisor position is a leadership opportunity focused on supporting management and elevating our regional payroll processing in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. The EMEA Payroll Supervisor is a role that supports EMEA Scope of countries. The position will also play a key role in supporting the end-to-end payroll process outsourced to our 3rd party vendors to ensure payroll accuracy and compliance in multiple countries. The EMEA Payroll Supervisor will be a part of the Global Finance Shared Services organization.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>How You’ll make an impact:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Participate in ongoing internal process improvements.</li> </ul> <p>Ensure <strong>accurate and timely processing</strong> of the Company’s payroll in EMEA countries:</p> <ul> <li>Payroll issues are escalated and resolved with root cause analysis and corrective action for all levels of employees and management, with a focus on ensuring a positive and seamless employee experience in partnership with HR Shared Services. Responsible for day-to-day oversight for issues and positive seamless </li> <li>Oversee the timely preparation, processing, maintenance and appropriate distribution of payroll information, payroll reports, all tax year end reports, payroll manuals and related payroll working instructions</li> <li>Establish partnerships with third party vendors to ensure effective service delivery</li> <li>Be a back up for the payroll team (end to finish payroll process)</li> <li>Ensure payroll services are processed in accordance with established global policies and procedures along with all legislative <strong>compliance</strong> requirements (including tax and labor laws)</li> <li>Directs and audits payroll procedures to include earnings, garnishments, tax withholding, and absence processing and ensure compliance with organizational procedures</li> <li>Work closely with Legal, Compliance, and Benefits teams to identify, resolve, and avoid payroll compliance issues</li> <li>Identify and drive <strong>continuous performance improvement</strong> projects to improve payroll accuracy, compliance, productivity and / or employee satisfaction within EMEA</li> <li>Ensure end-to-end processes are well-thought through to address customer and regulatory requirements</li> <li>Develop and implement best practices, key performance indicators and SLA metrics for department</li> <li><strong>Support payroll manager with team’s development</strong> to optimize operational excellence and create a deeper bench of experienced talent</li> <li>Manage projects across multi-disciplinary functions of Payroll within allotted timeframes and budgets</li> <li>Maintains confidentiality of any payroll, private employee information and any proprietary information and ensures payroll information is secure</li> </ul> <p><strong>Decision Making:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Assigns daily work to employees across functional area</li> <li>Address performance issues</li> <li>Approves vacation requests</li> <li>Determines initial and on-going training requirements to run an efficient operation</li> </ul> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>What You’ll bring:  </strong></p> <ul> <li>BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience &amp; CIPP certification </li> <li>Additional degrees/certifications such as: MBA, Six Sigma, etc. enhance candidacy</li> <li>7 -10 years of relevant experience in payroll in a diverse, complex global enterprise, 2-3 years of experience in managing a small team (1-3 direct reports)</li> <li>Fluent (both orally and in writing) in <strong>English and German</strong></li> <li>Experience with German speaking countries</li> <li>Experience in managing third-party payroll services providers</li> <li>Experience working in systems such as SAP, SuccessFactors, ADP Celergo &amp; ADP Global View, ADP E-Time and Microsoft Office Suite</li> <li>Experience in payroll system implementation – data validation and data analysis, implementation of Payroll Internal Controls and Procedures</li> <li>Knowledge and experience with stock, travel and time and attendance programs</li> <li>Proactive, motivated, results oriented individual capable of partnering with diverse perspectives and backgrounds to negotiate positive outcomes that impact the work of internal, external and cross-functional partners</li> <li>Demonstrated focus on providing an excellent employee experience</li> <li>Comfortable in a fast-paced, complex, and highly matrixed environment</li> <li>Strong process redesign and/or efficiency</li> <li>Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to confidently present complex information to all levels of the organization is required</li> <li>Strong leadership skills</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Who We Are:</strong> For 70 years, Bio-Rad has focused on advancing the discovery process and transforming the fields of science and healthcare. As one of the top five life science companies, we are a glo