HRO(Payroll Specialist (Austria)-MT

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If you thrive in a fast-moving, tech-driven environment, love solving real-world problems, and want to be part of a team that’s shaping the future, this is your moment. 
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Inviting applications for the role of management Trainee - Payroll Specialist (Austria) (Medium-High Complexity | Execution + Validation + Compliance Support)
Role Purpose
This role is essential in executing and validate complex payroll activities, ensure compliance accuracy, and support reporting, controls, and stakeholder coordination.
Responsibilities
1. Payroll Processing & Validation
•    Oversee payroll activities, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations.
•    Address and resolve complex payroll issues or escalations.
•    Execute and validate monthly closing activities
•    Create Payroll control reports
•    Final settlements & deregistration
•    Ensure correctness of Tax deductions & Social insurance contributions
•    Validate time and attendance data and escalate missing or anomalous entries before payroll cut off.
•    Ensure statutory reporting readiness for monthly contributions and prepare deregistration submissions when required.
•    Enforce data minimization and retention per GDPR and DPA guidance for payroll artifacts.

2. Complex Payroll Calculations
•    Handle driver allowances, Travel expenses & Anniversary payments, Disabled employee subsidies etc.
•    Lead payroll validation for complex pays elements and ensure interface integrity between HR‑Systems.
•    Prepare provision inputs for overtime, annual leave and assignment accruals using provision tools and Excel reconciliations.
•    Validate actuarial data for long‑term benefits, early retirement and statutory severance provision calculations prior to submission to actuaries.

3. Compliance Execution
•    Support reporting and validation of provision reporting
•    Ensure alignment with Austrian tax and labour law.
•    Manage compliance checks for payroll processes, including tax reconciliations, contributions and municipal taxes.
•    Lead remediation for data protection assessments and support privacy incident investigations.

•    Systems Used
Preferred to have\: - ServiceNow, Workday, BMD; HR‑Suite; Assignment Management Tool (AMT); Global Advantage; SAP Concur; ARIBA; Docusign; TMI; Excel; Power BI / Tableau; Outlook MS Teams; SharePoint.

Qualifications we seek in you!
Minimum Qualifications
•    Bachelor’s degree in HR, Payroll, or a related field.
•    Strong in processing + compliance + reporting
•    Advanced proficiency in payroll software (Workday/ADP, SAP/ Oracle HCM Cloud) and reporting tools.
•    Five Days working from Office

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills
•    Certification in payroll management or HR operations.
•    Familiarity with Human Resource Management System platforms, Ticketing tools 
(ServiceNow, Zendesk) and European statutory payroll requirements
•    Experience in process improvement and automation.
•    Preference of an understanding of HRMS Payroll module

Key Skills and Attributes:
•    Leadership and team management skills.
•    Analytical mindset with attention to detail.
•    Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Why join Genpact? 
•    Be a transformation leader – Work at the cutting edge of AI, automation, and digital innovation 
•    Make an impact – Drive change for global enterprises and solve business challenges that matter 
•    Accelerate your career – Get hands-on experience, mentorship, and continuous learning opportunities 
•    Work with the best – Join 140,000+ bold thinkers and problem-solvers who push boundaries every day 
•    Thrive in a values-driven culture – Our courage, curiosity, and incisiveness - built on a foundation of integrity and inclusion - allow your ideas to fuel progress 
Come join the tech shapers and growth makers at Genpact and take your career in the only direction that matters\: Up. 
Let’s build tomorrow together. 

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