Required skills
- HR Operations
- Payroll Management
- HRIS
- Workday
- Team Leadership
- Project Management
- Compliance
- Audit Management
- Recruiting
- Onboarding
- Employee Lifecycle
- Interim Management
Nice to have:SAP
Languages: German
Job description
Seeking an Interim Manager for HR Operations & Payroll for a 6-month contract, responsible for leading the HR Operations and Payroll team, ensuring compliant payroll processing, optimizing HR administrative processes, and driving HRIS digitalization.
Project overview
Tasks & Responsibilities
HR Leadership & Team Management
Payroll Management
HR Operations & Administration
HRIS & Digitalization
Recruiting & Onboarding
Project Management
Priorities at Mandate Start
Professional Requirements
Framework Conditions
If interested, please send CV in Word format and information on daily onsite and remote rates.
- Professional and disciplinary leadership and further development of the HR Operations and Payroll team.
- Promotion of a performance-oriented, service-oriented team culture.
- Overall responsibility for timely and legally compliant payroll processing.
- Ensuring compliance with tax, social security, and labor law regulations.
- Optimization and standardization of payroll processes.
- Responsibility for all administrative HR processes along the employee lifecycle.
- Increasing efficiency and continuous optimization of existing HR workflows.
- Ensuring data quality in the HR system (especially Workday).
- Further development and digitalization of HR processes and systems.
- Ensuring efficient recruiting and onboarding processes.
- Management and implementation of HR projects and further development of the HR strategy.
- Review and redesign of the payroll process, including the four-eyes principle and control mechanisms.
- Definition of SLAs and implementation of a steering model for the external payroll service provider.
- Support for internal and external audits and compliance checks.
- Stabilization and optimization of all HR administration processes.
- Completed business administration degree or comparable qualification.
- Several years of experience in HR management and in leading HR Operations and Payroll teams.
- Very good knowledge of payroll tax, social security, and labor law.
- Experience with HRIS systems, ideally Workday.
- Experience in managing external payroll service providers and in audit management.
- Willingness to travel between Hamburg and Düsseldorf (at least once a month).
- Location: Hamburg or Düsseldorf
- Start: 15.11.2026 or 01.12.2026
- Duration: 3–6 months
- Workload: Full-time
- Work Model: 4 days onsite, 1 day remote
Project details
- Start: ab sofort
- Duration: 6 Monate
- Remote: hybrid
- Location: Düsseldorf, Deutschland, DE
- Languages: German
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