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Our payroll team looks after the payroll needs of all Cisco countries across our EMEAR region. Payroll Team manages or directly runs the accurate and timely payments for over 13,000 employees in over 60 countries. This gives professionals in the team a chance to gain significant exposure to the payroll practices in many different countries.

What You'll Do

Responsible for End to End payroll process for one/several markets/countries in EMEAR Central Region in an in-house payroll processing or outsourced to local vendor
● Reviewing and controlling payroll files
● Employee Support
● Preparing payroll input, gathering information required for processing
● Point of contact for the business partners (i.e. - HR and Finance)
● Supporting other Team members with different payroll activities

Minimum Qualifications

● Requires Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Finance/Accounting field

● Professional written and verbal communication skills in English (German, Dutch advantageous)
● Intermediate to advanced level Excel skills including the ability to manipulate data accurately and the ability to create meaningful reports
● Experience at turning raw data into meaningful reports for different audiences
● Hands-on experience of data entry and data validation with an ability to carry such tasks out with a high level of discipline and accuracy

● Excellent organizational and time management skills

● Attention to detail

● Must possess critical thinking skills and enjoy problem solving
● A comfort level with change, the ability to adapt to change and the ability to recover quickly from adversity

● Be a self-starter who can prioritize tasks and manage deadlines
● Positive/can do attitude

● Proactiveness and teamwork disposition
● Good judgment and confidentiality

Desired Skills
● Payroll experience with multi country support or equivalent experience in the areas of customer service, human resources, benefits administration, financial institution, application support or other relevant work experience

● Experience with ADP GV (SAP payroll), Workday, Oracle
● Experience in a multinational remuneration environment

● Some experience in payroll for Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Switzerland

● Experience in accounting on basic to intermediate level
● Partnering skills - with the payroll stakeholders such as HR or Finance
● Sense of urgency and ownership; self-motivation to take on new challenges

● Eager to learn new processes and be part of the improvement projects