Payroll Specialist (m/f/d) 80 -100%

About the job

Working at BDO

Unique. Versatile. Ambitious. With over 40 locations in Switzerland, we offer you a working environment characterised by local connection and international professionalism. Together we create sustainable growth, promote diversity and take responsibility. A strong team culture, attractive benefits and predictable flexibility foster our joint development and enable you to realise your full potential.

Your next career step at BDO

Payroll is more than just numbers and processes to you? You work precisely, think holistically and want to apply your expertise in an environment based on trust, reliability and respectful interaction? Then you are exactly right with us. In this versatile role, you ensure professional payroll together with the team and actively develop our processes and systems.

Payroll Specialist (m/f/d) 80 -100%

Your responsibilities

• You independently carry out the monthly payroll processing for around 1800 employees in Abacus and ensure correct and timely payroll accounting
• You perform periodic closing tasks, controls and reconciliations and work closely with Finance, Controlling, HR Business Partners and HR Administration
• You support employees subject to withholding tax and handle cross-border payroll matters including withholding tax processing
• You conduct time recording checks in SAP and Abacus and ensure high data quality in the HR and payroll systems
• You support system adjustments and releases, conduct payroll tests and document the results comprehensibly
• You contribute to managing the organisational structure in Abacus and SAP HCM as well as to the correct implementation of legal and organisational changes
• You advise employees and managers competently and service-oriented on payroll-related issues
• You support HR Business Partners and HR Administration and also handle complex enquiries regarding salary, social security and withholding tax
• You ensure compliance with labour, social security and tax law requirements and support internal and external audits
• You participate in HR and payroll projects and support digitalisation, automation as well as the introduction and optimisation of systems

Your profile

• You have a commercial basic education or an equivalent qualification.
  Further training in payroll, social security or human resources, such as Payroll Expert or HR certificate, is an advantage
• You bring several years of professional experience in payroll, ideally from a larger and complex organisation
• You have very good knowledge of the Swiss salary and social security system as well as good knowledge of labour and withholding tax law
• You have experience working with authorities, insurance companies and auditors
• You work confidently with HR and payroll systems, especially SAP HCM and Abacus, and have a high IT affinity as well as very good Excel skills
• You think analytically, work independently, structured and precisely and convince with a strong affinity for numbers and pronounced problem-solving skills
• You are trustworthy and discreet, communicative, service-oriented and a team player. You work reliably and meet deadlines even under high workload
• You communicate very well in German. French skills are an advantage.

What we offer

Versatile activities

• Comprehensive insight into many companies
• Early assumption of responsibility possible
• Interdisciplinary work with specialists

Personal development

• Support for external training
• Wide range of internal seminars
• Leadership development programme
• Opportunities for stays abroad (secondment)

Individual support

• Annual working hours with flexible working times
• Compensation of overtime
• Home office / location-independent working possible
• Possibility of unpaid leave (sabbatical)
• Work-life balance - with us not an empty phrase but lived everyday reality

Become part of BDO

Leonie Rossatti
HR Recruiting Partner
+41 44 444 59 06
www.bdo.ch/careers