HR and Payroll Specialist

About a role: 

Proper and transparent implementation of payroll and administration tasks. Ensuring accurate monthly payroll and travel expense accounting. Audit-compliant maintenance of payroll records.

Responsibilities:

• Perform all personnel-related tasks, including the preparation and execution of ongoing payroll accounting for an assigned group of employees.
• Enter and maintain payroll-relevant data in SAP using manual entries, batch processing, and interface procedures.
• Review payroll results based on payroll run logs, individual payroll results, and accounting outputs.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of legal and operational payroll regulations.
• Implement and document changes to operational rules, particularly in time management.
• Advise employees and managers on payroll-related matters, legal regulations, social security, taxation, and employment law.
• Process specialized personnel topics such as garnishments, DEÜV notifications, certifications, age-related matters, travel expenses, and similar topics.
• Prepare statistics, reports, and evaluations.
• Participate in projects and cross-functional initiatives.
• Perform special and ad hoc tasks as required.
• Ensure proper documentation and filing in compliance with internal policies and operational regulations.
• Maintain audit-proof records and ensure correct archiving of personnel and payroll documents.
• Train decentralized time data administrators and logbook keepers in accordance with operational regulations and time management documentation.
• Provide ongoing support related to time data and payroll processes.
• Maintain personnel master data, time data, vacation quotas, and absences.
• Process payroll runs, corrections, transfers, and terminations.
• Handle incorrect billing cases and reconcile payroll accounts.
• Implement personnel measures, tariff increases, and statutory reporting obligations in SAP.
• Process requests from authorities and respond to internal and external inquiries.
• Collaborate on special payroll and HR-related tasks and temporary project teams.

Requirements:

• University or technical college degree, completed commercial training, or equivalent professional qualification.
• Proven professional experience in payroll accounting, HR administration, or personnel services.
• Payroll certification (e.g. ALGA) is an advantage.
• Practical experience with SAP payroll and HR modules is required.
• Very good command of SAP and PC-based office applications.
• Solid knowledge of:
  • Payroll and archive regulations
  • Collective agreements (MTV) and tariff regulations
  • Income tax tables and social security contribution tables
  • Personnel files, forms, receipts, statistics, and SAP documentation
• Fluent in German and English (C1 level)

Behavioral Competencies:

• Strong result orientation with a clear focus on achieving objectives.
• High sense of responsibility and ownership.
• Team-oriented mindset with strong customer and stakeholder focus.
• Independent, decisive, and solution-oriented working style.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work accurately and with strong attention to detail.
• Stress resilience and adaptability in a dynamic working environment.
• Well-structured approach with strong planning and organizational skills.

ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel and mining company, with a presence in 60 countries and primary steelmaking facilities in 15 countries. Our material is part of the fabric of life. What we produce makes a difference – to individuals, communities, businesses and society. At ArcelorMittal, the safety, health, and wellbeing of our employees are our top priorities. We believe that every accident is avoidable, and it is essential for every employee, from the shop floor to the management committee, to hold this belief. 
Our purpose is to produce ever smarter steels that have a positive benefit for people and planet. Steels made using innovative processes which use less energy, emit significantly less carbon and reduce costs. Steels that are cleaner, stronger and reusable. Steels for electric vehicles and renewable energy infrastructure that will support societies as they transform through this century. With steel at our core, our inventive people and an entrepreneurial culture at heart, we will support the world in making that change. This is what we believe it takes to be the steel company of the future.