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 (new 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 experience (payroll, HR services, or language/translation experience) is an advantage
• Proficiency in German (B2–C1 level)
• SAP experience is an advantage
• Strong client communication skills and enjoyment of stakeholder engagement
• Digital affinity and openness to learning new tools and processes

What we offer
• Multicultural working environment
• Friendly and supportive colleagues
• Flat organizational structure
• Growth and development opportunities
• Versatile working conditionsCompetitive compensation and benefits package

📌 HR Services Partner (Chennai)
🏢 zalaris
📍 Chennai