Location: Aachen | Hybrid (4 days on-site / 1 day remote)
Working Hours: Full-time (40 hours/week)
Salary Range: €40,000 – €48,000 gross per year (depending on relevant experience and qualifications)
Start Date: As soon as possible
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Payroll: Independently manage the monthly payroll process for our employees in Germany, ensuring accuracy and timely execution.
- Employee Lifecycle: Support and manage all payroll-related processes throughout the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, contract changes, reporting, and certification requirements
- Advisory: Serve as a point of contact for employees, managers, and external stakeholders on payroll, tax, and social security matters.
- International Environment: Coordinate our international payroll processes and collaborate with external payroll providers and tax consultants.
- Data & Systems: Maintain employee master data and ensure high data quality across our HR and payroll systems.
- Continuous Improvement: Prepare reports and analyses while actively contributing to the enhancement of HR and payroll processes.
- Compliance: Monitor legislative changes and support their implementation in payroll-related processes.
- People Operations: Contribute to administrative HR topics and exciting People Operations projects.
YOUR PROFILE
- Professional Background: Completed commercial training, further qualification in payroll administration, or a degree in Human Resources, Tax, Finance, or a comparable field.
- Payroll Experience: Practical experience in payroll administration and the ability to manage the monthly payroll cycle independently.
- Expertise: Solid knowledge of payroll tax and social security regulations; knowledge of employment law is a plus.
- Systems: Experience working with payroll and HR software such as DATEV, Personio, or comparable systems.
- Working Style: Structured, detail-oriented, and reliable, with a high level of accuracy.
- Ownership: A strong sense of responsibility and a solution-oriented, service-minded approach.
- Continuous Improvement Mindset: Interested in challenging existing processes and driving improvements.
- Languages: Fluent German and good English communication skills, both written and spoken.
WHAT YOU GET AT MODULEWORKS
This isn’t feel-good marketing. These are benefits that genuinely make your everyday work and life better.
- Flexibility: Trust-based working hours, flexible office schedules, and various remote work models.
- A Great Workplace: Height-adjustable desks, at least two monitors, ergonomic equipment, and fast, pragmatic IT support.
- Energy: Free drinks, free lunch in our Aachen office cafeteria, ice cream in the summer, and yes, we also have the famous fruit basket.
- Health & Well-being: Yoga and back-health classes, free vaccinations, showers and changing rooms, company runs, and internal movement challenges.
- Growth & Development: Annual feedback and development discussions, workshops, training courses, coaching, external supervision for teams, free language courses, and opportunities to participate in research projects (depending on your role).
- Community: International teams representing more than 25 nationalities, an informal culture, no dress code, annual team-building budgets, and events such as Hackathons, Summer Jams, Christmas parties, and Pizza & Afterwork gatherings.
- Mobility: Bike leasing, subsidized Germany ticket, excellent public transport connections, on-site parking spaces, and bicycle parking facilities.
READY TO MOVE FORWARD ON YOUR CAREER PATH? LET’S GO!
Send your application to careers@moduleworks.com.
Please include your CV (cover letter optional) and relevant certificates/references as PDFs. Helpful for us: earliest possible start date and salary expectations (so we can move quickly).
