Payroll Administrator

We offer competitive opportunities for professional growth and development. Our company, Damen Naval, is a leading manufacturer of advanced naval vessels. We are seeking a skilled Payroll Assistant to join our team on a project basis in Vlissingen.

About the Role
The successful candidate will play a crucial part in managing and maintaining the time registration system for all employees, ensuring that work hours, vacation time, sick leave, and other time-related data are accurately processed. This role is essential to payroll accuracy and employee attendance records.

Key Responsibilities
As Payroll Assistant, your key responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining the time registration system to ensure all worked hours are approved and processed.
• Verifying and processing time registrations, ensuring payroll data aligns with approved hours and leave requests.
• Handling employee hire forms, information updates, temporary staff data, and contract terminations in the time registration system.
• Ensuring all statutory and regulatory requirements, such as holiday calculations and overtime hours, are met and accurately processed.
• Verifying and processing requests for allowances, such as Cost-Of-Living, travel, and mobility allowances.
• Educating staff on time registration tools and assisting managers, supervisors, and secretaries with system issues.
• Identifying opportunities for process optimization and tool improvements within the time registration system.
• Assisting Payroll Administrators with complex issues or special requests related to time and attendance.
• Contributing to the transfer and retention of knowledge within the department while continuously improving departmental processes.

Requirements
To excel in this role, you should possess:

• Secondary Vocational Education (MBO-4) in Business Administration or a related field.
• At least three years of relevant experience working with time registration systems and personnel manuals.
• Solid knowledge of time registration and payroll systems, along with intermediate Excel skills and proficiency in MS Office.
• Good command of both Dutch and English, both written and verbal.
• Key competencies: strong customer orientation, teamwork, results-driven, flexible, detail-oriented, and capable of planning and organizing effectively.
• Excellent references and a pre-employment security screening.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport.

What We Offer
At Damen Naval, we value our interim team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As an interim professional on secondment basis or as a freelancer, we offer:

• An attractive rate, ensuring at least equal pay to permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work partially from home.
• Challenging and innovative projects.