Role Summary

As part of our HR Services - Employee Life Cycle Management team, we are seeking a German Language Expert to support payroll operations across the employee life cycle from onboarding data and organizational structure changes through to ongoing pay administration and offboarding-related processing.

This role combines strong German language skills with payroll domain knowledge to ensure accurate, compliant, and timely service delivery for German-speaking clients and employees.You will act as a language and communication bridge between German stakeholders and internal process teams, ensuring accurate documentation, effective query resolution, and a consistently high-quality employee experience throughout each stage of the life cycle hire, change, pay, and leave.

Your Responsibilities
- Support end-to-end Employee Life Cycle Management mandates, including EDM (Employee Data Management), payroll, and travel processing requests
- Process payroll accurately and in compliance with relevant standards, ensuring employee life cycle events (current hires, transfers, terminations,



changes) are reflected correctly
- Work closely with German-speaking customers and employees, resolving queries and delivering solutions within agreed SLAs
- Support internal process experts by bridging German language requirements, helping the team achieve shared service delivery targets
- Translate documents from German to English and English to German, ensuring accuracy across HR, payroll, and life cycle documentation
- Maintain and update organizational structure data to reflect life cycle changes accurately
- Prepare and deliver operational and management reports
- Train and guide team members on German language usage and payroll/life cycle process nuances
- Perform additional tasks aligned with the scope of employee life cycle and payroll operations as required

Your Experience and Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Translation, Interpreting, HR, or a related field
- 2–3 years of relevant

📌 HR Services Partner (Chennai)
🏢 zalaris
📍 Chennai