Amazon seeks a Payroll Leader to coordinate Payroll for Amazon employees in Europe. We are looking for a strong operational leader with excellent communication skills.

The role is a fantastic opportunity for a leader who wants to innovate, to move away from traditional payroll solutions, to raise the bar for the payroll team, and to set the team up for success.

This role is part of the EMEA Payroll Management Team in Munich.

It is critical to Amazon's ongoing success that we provide the highest service to our employees. Our mission statement is “Pay Employees accurately and on time with the highest level of controllership and compliance, at the lowest cost to Amazon”.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Munich, BY, DEU

Job ID: 2561887 | Amazon Deutschland Services GmbH - A11

You will have the opportunity to build the team and make a difference. You will lead and develop the team, including hiring, training and employee career development; you will have the accountability to establish priorities, to ensure adherence to existing policies and procedures, to achieve or exceed annual performance targets; and above all to create a great environment to work in.

Key job responsibilities

• To build, inspire and motivate the team to raise the bar
• To develop a professional payroll function which is scalable & flexible to meet the company needs
• To manage a team of payroll team leaders, senior analysts, analysts and payroll vendors
• To liaise with key business partners and senior management (including directors and vice presidents) in order to align priorities and define best in class processes to serve Amazon's employees
• Accountable to meet or exceed SLAs and KPIs for the Europe region
• Accountable to ensure efficiency and efficacy of the internal controls over input and output data of the Payroll systems
• Accountable to anticipate employee needs and implement necessary procedures to reduce Amazon's employees effort to receive payroll services.

Other areas of responsibility:

• Strategic planning, Stakeholder management (HR, HR Services, Treasury, Accounting, Mobility, Recruitment), Monthly business reviews, in country expansions and M&A ownership for Europe, Leading continuous improvement projects (not an exhaustive list).

• Experience managing a payroll team for Germany for an in-house model
• Experience with working in a remote environment
• Build, inspire and motivate the teams to raise the bar
• Able to implement and execute the defined payroll strategy
• German and English language on advanced level
• Any other European language is an advantage
• Strong communication skills
• Able to meet tight deadlines
• Strong analytical and statistical skills
• Deep controllership / statutory compliance knowledge (tax, labour code, social security, garnishments, pension, benefits, terminations)
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and competing objectives in a fast-paced environment
• Proficient in obtaining, organizing, and analyzing data to make fact-based decisions and drive

Preferred qualifications

• MS Office knowledge - especially advanced MS Access and MS Excel Office (VBA, macros)
• Familiar with SAP, Peoplesoft, Workday, ADP software
• Other language skill is advantage
• Able to work in a mixed collective bargaining agreement environment
• Experience working with SOX compliance
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations