Senior Payroll Support Specialist

**The Role**:
At Personio, Customer Experience is more than one specific role. It is rather an integral part of our company culture and defines how our customer-facing teams work. Customer Experience follows the mission to maximize customer value in our everyday business. As part of this team, you enable our customers to understand the product, give feedback, encourage their growth, and make their people processes more successful. Join and become part of our exciting journey

As a **Senior Payroll Support Specialist**, you provide a best-in class service for all Personio customers. Your efforts drive customer satisfaction, continuous improvement of our end-to-end customer journey and payroll processes, which directly translates into a high customer lifetime value and active Personio promoters.

In case of technical and product issues, you collaborate with our 2nd Level team within Product & Engineering to identify gaps in Personio and support to improve them. Your feedback to product teams directly contributes to further product automation and a great user experience.

As a **Senior Payroll Support Specialist,** you directly report to the Lead Payroll Operations. In addition to bi-weekly meetings to discuss ongoing topics, semi-annual feedback and development meetings are held between the two.

**Your tasks and responsibilities will include**:

- You are building a solid relationship with our customers, discovering their specific payroll needs, communication approaches and solving payroll-related queries and problems.
- You are helping customers to embed & run payroll solutions and processes within their Personio account to ensure an ease of use and smooth experience.
- You are acting as the go-to expert for our customers (e.g. general payroll matters, possible issues, pitfalls, data inconsistencies or conflicts that impact the payroll processing and best practices to resolve).
- You collaborate with our internal 2nd Level product team to solve technical challenges and complex payroll issues of our customers.
- You identify & communicate improvement potentials for all internal payroll support processes and our payroll offering.
- You support junior team members to excel in their job, by coaching them in regards to payroll knowledge and processes as well as customer management and communication.
- You constantly expand your payroll process knowledge as well as the Personio product and keep up to date on any changes intertwined with our internal Academy.
- After becoming an expert in Personio, you support projects with the objective of sustainably increasing quality, efficiency and flexibility in the Payroll Operations team.

**What you need to succeed**:

- You have at least 5 years of operational experience in end-to-end payroll processing (focus Germany, other EU/EEA/CH countries would be an advantage) by supporting a payroll tool, process or services and experience with customer communication
- Ideally, you have a good understanding of web technologies, a basic understanding of APIs and the willingness to become more tech-savvy.
- You are a team player, empathetic and move mountains to ensure the satisfaction of your customers.
- You have the highest standards for quality and diligence in your work.
- You have very strong German and good English communication skills (C2 level).

**Why Personio**:
Aside from our people, culture, and mission, there are a variety of additional benefits that help make Personio a great place to work Work with us and receive:

- Competitive compensation package that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
- 28 days of paid vacation, plus another additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation)
- 2 Impact Days you can use to have an impact on the environment and society - one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative #SocialResponsibility
- Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex We offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework to suit your needs
- Annual personal development budget of €1,500 for conferences, courses, books, career coach, etc.
- Regular company and team events like Oktoberfest, ski trips, Christmas parties, and more (COVID permitting)
- High-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
- Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares
- Save money with corporate discounts across brands like Adidas, LG, Bosch, Apple, and more
- Invest in your retirement via the Personio Pension Scheme, including a Personio contribution
- Choose between green mobility options, including a JobRad® bike or monthly public transportation ticket
- Access multiple fitness studios and sports facilities across Germany for €22 per month with a subsidized Qualitrain membership
- A beautiful, spacious office in the heart of Munich, complete