Join a team where your payroll expertise helps deliver a great employee experience and strengthens trust across the firm. You’ll play a key role in ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll outcomes while partnering closely with colleagues and vendors. If you enjoy solving complex problems, working with data, and continuously improving processes, this is an opportunity to grow your impact.
As a Payroll Specialist at JPMorganChase within the German Payroll team in Frankfurt, you’ll help execute end-to-end payroll operations, support compliance with tax and employment requirements, and use data to identify and resolve issues. You’ll collaborate across functions, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and help improve the quality and efficiency of payroll processes. We offer fixed-term contract for 12 months.
Job responsibilities
- Execute in-house end-to-end payroll processing activities in line with established controls and timelines
- Review, validate, and reconcile payroll inputs/outputs to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Apply German payroll tax and employment law knowledge to help ensure compliant processing and decision-making
- Investigate payroll exceptions and employee inquiries, providing clear, timely, customer-focused responses
- Prepare analysis and reporting using Excel; communicate insights and recommendations to stakeholders
- Support payroll accounting activities, including reconciliations and issue resolution
- Partner with internal teams and external providers to resolve operational items and improve service delivery
- Contribute to continuous improvement of payroll procedures, documentation, controls, and automation
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of in-house end-to-end payroll processes using SAP, payroll tax and employment laws, and payroll accounting
- Experience supporting payroll operations for Germany in a multi-country environment
- Apply advanced Excel skills to analyze and reconcile multiple data points and clearly present findings
- Communicate fluently in German and English, with a strong customer focus and ability to explain complex payroll processes or decisions to varied audiences
- Advanced Excel skills and solid command of Microsoft Office
- Organize and prioritize deliverables effectively for yourself and the team
- Maintain high attention to detail and perform effectively under pressure and tight deadlines
- Build strong partnerships with colleagues across the firm and external partners
- Adapt quickly to changes in procedures, processes, and systems
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with end‑to‑end German payroll, including statutory reporting using SAP
Experience in payroll audits and controls
Skills Required
- Strong knowledge of in-house end-to-end payroll processes using SAP, payroll tax and employment laws, and payroll accounting
- Experience supporting payroll operations for Germany in a multi-country environment
- Advanced Excel skills to analyze and reconcile multiple data points and present findings
- Fluent communication in German and English with strong customer focus
- Solid command of Microsoft Office
- Ability to organize and prioritize deliverables effectively for self and team
- High attention to detail and ability to perform under pressure and tight deadlines
- Ability to build strong partnerships with colleagues and external partners
- Adaptability to changes in procedures, processes, and systems
- Experience with end-to-end German payroll, including statutory reporting using SAP
- Experience in payroll audits and controls
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
-
Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
-
Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
-
Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
JPMorganChase Insights
What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
Why Work With Us
Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
Gallery
