Team Lead - Payroll (f/m/x)
Job ID:R0392041
Full/Part-Time: Full-time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Listed: 2025-06-17
Location: Bucharest
Position Overview
Team Lead - Payroll (f/m/x)
DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Since its set-up in 2013, Bucharest Technology Centre (BEX) has constantly proven its capacity to deliver global technology products and services, playing a dynamic role in the Bank’s technology transformation.
We have a robust, hands-on engineering culture dedicated to continuous learning, knowledge-sharing, technical skill development and networking. We are an essential part of the Bank’s technology platform and develop applications for many important business areas.
If you want to be part of a motivated HR team and to assume an active role in bringing our HR Ambition to life, then check out this opportunity!
We want to share with you our core values: flexibility and adaptability in an agile environment, trust, love working with people and learning new things, the team is your support.
Responsibilities
- leading the team of specialists, motivating and developing them, offering support in the daily activities. Manages the performance of the team; regularly provides feedback and addresses key points.
- preparing payroll activities for the allocated countries/businesses, liaising with vendors, internal teams and other stakeholders.
- creating action plans for process transitions, embedding key requirements; work together with the project team to obtain the needed inputs and to validate them as per planning.
- ensuring deliverables are completed within deadlines or workaround is in place.
- keeping stakeholders informed of relevant progress or challenges, highlighting risks proactively to relevant stakeholders.
- acts as Subject Matter Expert for the transitioned processes and Continuous Improvement:
- gain the understanding of the end-to-end process and particularities, supporting tools and technologies, requirements for team members performing the processes.
- preparing training material and delivering process/tools trainings to the Operational Team
- verifying and giving the internal sign-off on the allocated processes.
- acting as process expert for the HR Services Team and anyone else in the business for any process clarifications/system issue.
- Driving process excellence and continues improvements (efficiency, consistency and automation) in all processes and domain expertise to enhance internal customer satisfaction and efficiency.
- Defining, reporting and analyzing KPIs and SLAs, root cause analysis of issues. Monitor and implement SLAs.
- Working on US/ New York time zone during transition/ followed by Romania hrs, after go-live.
Skills
- 6 -9 years’ relevant working experience in a BPO/SSC, preferably in process transitions (payroll, HR admin).
- Previous SME experience in HR processes, preferably Payroll and HR Operations (eg. Hiring, on-boarding, terminations, position changes).
- Experience in leading team of specialists, coordinating and motivating them so that they achieve the best results.
- Knowledge of US payroll and understanding of the HR concepts/ internationnaly.
- Great PowerPoint/Excel/Visio/SAP or a process flow tool knowledge is a must.
- Workday application knowledge is preferred.
- Change management skills and knowledge.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Dealing with ambiguity, adaptability, problem solving.
Well-being & Benefits
Emotionally and mentally balanced: we support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health
- Empowering managers who value your ideas and decisions. Show your positive attitude, determination, and open-mindedness.
- A professional, passionate, and fun workplace with flexible Work from Home options.
- A modern office with fun and relaxing areas to boost creativity.
- Continuous learning culture with coaching and support from team experts.
Physically thriving we support you managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive
- Private healthcare and life insurance with premium benefits for you and discounts for your loved ones.
Socially connected: we strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and wellbeing.
- Kids@TheOffice - support for unexpected events requiring you to care for your kids during work hours.
- Enjoy retailer discounts, cultural and CSR activities, employee sport clubs, workshops, and more.
Financially secure: : we support you to meet personal financial goals during your active career and for the future
- Competitive income, performance-based promotions, and a sense of purpose.
- 24 days holiday, loyalty days, and bank holidays (including weekdays for weekend bank holidays).
As part of the Payroll Strategy presented to Patrick and Rebecca. These transition roles are to support the hubbing of Payroll employees in regional hubs to reduce operational costs, mitigate people dependencies and enhance operational resilience. This Job Rec represents one of five payroll roles that will move to Bucharest from the US to provide an opportunity to generate cost and efficiency gains via location footprint optimization and offshoring of location-agnostic task to low-cost regions
Payroll Officer Specialist (f/m/x)
DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Since its set-up in 2013, Bucharest Technology Centre (BEX) has constantly proven its capacity to deliver global technology products and services, playing a dynamic role in the Bank’s technology transformation.
We have a robust, hands-on engineering culture dedicated to continuous learning, knowledge-sharing, technical skill development and networking. We are an essential part of the Bank’s technology platform and develop applications for many important business areas.
If you want to be part of a motivated HR team and to assume an active role in bringing our HR Ambition to life, then check out this opportunity!
We want to share with you our core values: flexibility and adaptability in an agile environment, trust, love working with people and learning new things, the team is your support.
Responsibilities
- Ensures timely processing of multi-state semi-monthly payrolls in accordance with labor regulations and standard accounting principles via Dayforce payroll system.
- Execute time and attendance processing and interface with payroll.
- Processes wage garnishments, pay levies and other involuntary court-ordered payments in a timely manner, including reporting to the necessary State office or jurisdiction and Manual Payments.
- Assists employees and staff with general questions related to payroll, leave accruals, wage deductions, fringe benefits and other pay related issues.
- Works with Benefits to coordinate leaves of absence, Medical or other unpaid leaves
- Conduct regular audits on payroll procedures and records
- Handle unemployment claims and verifications forms as needed.
- Monitor, audit, adjust and reconcile payroll data.
- Ensure deliverables are completed within deadlines or workaround is in place.
- Keep stakeholders informed of relevant progress or challenges, highlighting risks proactively to relevant stakeholders.
- Gain the understanding of the end-to-end process and particularities, supporting tools and technologies, requirements for performing the processes.
- Stay up to date on state and federal payroll and tax laws
- Report and analyze KPIs and SLAs, root cause analysis of issues. Monitor and implement SLAs.
Requirements:
- 6 years’ relevant working experience in a BPO/SSC, preferably in process transitions (payroll, HR admin), with payroll experience (specifically processing and running payroll)
- International Payroll, specifically US.
- Previous SME experience in HR processes, preferably Payroll and HR Operations (eg. Hiring, on-boarding, terminations, position changes).
- Demonstrate high attention to detail with the ability to multi-task
- The ability to work under tight deadlines and strong sense of urgency in meeting customer needs
- Very strong personal communication skills – must be outgoing and have the ability to work well with all levels within the organization
- Dealing well with ambiguity, adaptability, problem solving.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word
- Working knowledge of Workday HCM and Time Tracking, Dayforce payroll system preferably
- Working on US/ New York time zone during transition/ followed by Romania hrs, after go-live.
Well-being & Benefits
Emotionally and mentally balanced: we support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health
- Empowering managers who value your ideas and decisions. Show your positive attitude, determination, and open-mindedness.
- A professional, passionate, and fun workplace with flexible Work from Home options.
- A modern office with fun and relaxing areas to boost creativity.
- Continuous learning culture with coaching and support from team experts.
Physically thriving we support you managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive
- Private healthcare and life insurance with premium benefits for you and discounts for your loved ones.
Socially connected: we strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and wellbeing.
- Kids@TheOffice - support for unexpected events requiring you to care for your kids during work hours.
- Enjoy retailer discounts, cultural and CSR activities, employee sport clubs, workshops, and more.
Financially secure: : we support you to meet personal financial goals during your active career and for the future
- Competitive income, performance-based promotions, and a sense of purpose.
- 24 days holiday, loyalty days, and bank holidays (including weekdays for weekend bank holidays).
We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.
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