Payroll Specialist (m/f/d)

The Role

Imperial Brands is a leading global FMCG company with more than 25,000 employees worldwide, operating across highly complex international supply chains and business models. As part of our ongoing global transformation, our central functions play a critical role in enabling a compliant, efficient, and employee-focused organisation.

We are looking for an experienced Payroll Specialist to join our team in Hamburg. This newly created, permanent, full-time position will strengthen our eight-person payroll team and support the continuity of our payroll operations as knowledge and responsibilities transition within the team. The role offers a 50% hybrid working arrangement: you can work from home for 50% of your working time each quarter, with the remainder spent at our Hamburg office.

You’ll bring practical experience processing payroll in SAP HCM, work closely with your colleagues and receive support as you learn our specific processes and any additional systems.

Principle Accountabilities

• Process payroll accurately and on time, following the required procedures and deadlines.
• Use SAP HCM to carry out payroll activities and support reliable day-to-day operations.
• Review payroll information carefully and follow up on discrepancies or missing details.
• Work collaboratively with the payroll team to manage day-to-day priorities and maintain continuity as responsibilities evolve.
• Contribute your practical payroll knowledge and help ensure important experience is retained within the team.
• Take part in a structured onboarding process, with on-the-job training provided by your colleagues.

Skills and Experience Required

• Practical experience working in payroll, including personally carrying out payroll processing.
• A strong grounding in payroll, ideally built through hands-on experience from the ground up.
• Previous experience processing payroll in SAP HCM. This is essential for the role.
• Good English skills, with the ability to speak, understand and write in English.
• A careful and dependable approach to payroll work, along with the ability to collaborate closely with colleagues.
• A genuine interest in building your experience within a payroll team over the long term.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.