Germany Payroll Professional

About the Role

Manage, prepare, document, and disburse payroll checks, payroll taxes, and employee benefit payments for Germany. Partner closely with Trimble’s People eXperience (human resources) and Corporate Finance teams to ensure compliance with statutory accounting. Responsible for creating reports illustrating payroll expenditures, including tax payments and benefit plan disbursements.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing for Germany.
• Partner with Trimble’s payroll vendor to ensure correct monthly payroll results and timely compliance/reporting with government authorities.
• Take ownership of the completion of payroll-related accruals and prepayments.
• Ensure data integrity from Trimble’s HRIS (Workday) to Cloudpay through integration reports.
• Act as the main point of contact for employees regarding payroll.
• Act as backup for the rest of the team, using the Cloudpay calendar for payroll processes worldwide.
• Partner with the broader Finance team to complete monthly payroll-related balance sheet reconciliations.
• Analyze ad hoc improvements/practices that may impact payroll in France, Spain, & Italy and work with internal and external stakeholders to arrive at the best payroll solution for Trimble.
• Gather manual input, including appropriate approvals, for upload in Cloudpay (TOP, commissions, ESPP, RSU).

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Payroll processing
• Payroll taxes
• Employee benefit payments
• Statutory accounting
• HRIS (specifically Workday)
• Cloudpay
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Experience with payroll in France, Spain, & Italy is a plus for analysis purposes.