Key User Payroll (m/f/d) - temporary until 31.08.2028 - #2644296

Key User Payroll (m/f/d) - temporary until 31.08.2028

Together, we move the world—we’ve been doing it for over 100 years. At MAHLE, as a leading international development partner and systems supplier to the automotive industry, we pursue the objective of making mobility more efficient, more environmentally friendly, more convenient, and more economical. As part of our dual strategy, we are working both on the intelligent combustion engine for the use of hydrogen and other nonfossil fuels and on technologies for fuel cells and e-mobility.

MAHLE generated sales of €11.3 billion in 2025. Employing just under 65,000 people at 127 production locations and 11 technology centers, the company is represented in 28 countries. (as at: 12/31/2025). Join our MAHLE team! #weshapefuturemobility

Your Contribution

As a Key User Payroll (m/f/d) - temporary until 31.08.2028, you are responsible for the analysis, payroll tax evaluation, and implementation of payroll-related and time management matters. In this role, you ensure the legally compliant mapping of operational, collective bargaining, and statutory changes within payroll processes.

• Coordinating the implementation of new requirements in SAP HCM
• Performing monthly and annual closing activities
• Providing expert support for system and process changes, as well as analyzing complex issues and special cases
• Handling special topics and contributing to projects, particularly within the scope of digitalization initiatives
• Ensuring compliance with legal requirements and internal policies in payroll tax matters, in close coordination with Compliance and Legal departments
• Collaborating with internal departments, production sites, and external collection agencies
• Creating specific reports and statistics
• Coordinating testing activities and ensuring proper documentation
• Supporting and accompanying tax and social security audits

Your Experience and Qualifications

• Successfully completed commercial training with additional qualifications, training as a tax clerk, or a dual study program with a focus on HR or tax law
• Solid and several years of experience in payroll accounting
• Ideally, knowledge of collective bargaining agreements in the metal and electrical industry
• Sound knowledge of reporting procedures, as well as comprehensive and up-to-date expertise in social security and payroll tax law
• Strong SAP and key user expertise in payroll and time management
• Proficiency in common MS Office applications
• Good command of English; business fluent English is an advantage

#TeamMAHLE is diverse and we see that as a great advantage! We welcome applications with diverse experiences, backgrounds and identities.

Depending on the job profile and personal situation of the employees, MAHLE offers the possibility of flexible working, for example through home office. This is how we support our employees in balancing their professional and private lives.

Closing date for applications

Don't waste any time, apply while the position is online.

Your future at MAHLE

As a team player and someone who thinks ahead, you can deploy all your skills with us. In cooperation with colleagues from different countries and areas, you contribute in designing the mobility of the future. When selecting MAHLE, you choose trend-setting technologies and strategies. Are you interested in working with us and developing efficient and environmentally-friendly solutions, optimising existing products, and turning innovative ideas into reality? Then MAHLE is the right address for you.

Shape the future with us.