Main Objective of this postioin：
The Global Consutlation Hub Asia is responsible for all assignments to and from China as well as assignments from South East Asian Daimler Entities – in total around 600 assignments.
We are part of the integrated Global Assignment Management (GAM) function of the Mercedes-Benz Group responsible for around 2,000 assignees in more than 150 Daimler companies and in more than 50 countries across the world. As part of the transition period of the company split of Mercedes-Benz Group and Daimler Truck Group, we have the mandat for assignment management for Daimler Trucks in China.
The Global Consultation Hub Asia is looking for professionals to support the Daimler Truck services with experience in payroll, tax and social security management in HR/Financial background, analytical thinking and eye for details. If you would like to join us to make sure our assignees’ compensation is taken accurately, paid on time and make a difference by driving and participating in challenging projects, we definitely want to hear from you!
You will be responsible for operating the payroll, tax and social security processes as well as relevant compensation topics for around 80 assignees from various countries coming to China. You ensure monthly compliant, on-time and accurate pay out together with our external tax/social security partners, banks and internal counterparts like F&C etc.. You will drive continuous improvement of processes to provide better support to our assignees and to solve their complex queries.
Besides, this position also has partial responsibility of managing the vendors who provide services to the organization. To ensure their performance and get them paid.
In this position you will never stop to learn through many opportunities like joining different learning event offered by our external partners the 4 big, this will also refresh you with the newest compensation information in the market.
You will never be bored!

Main tasks:
Host Salary Payroll
- Monitor monthly host payroll process for approximately 80 assignees from different home countries to China. Through sevral levels of preparation (such as preparing job & personal data and sharing it with OS HRS and E&Y, instructing assignees’ bank information in ESS system, sample checking host pay instructions, raising funding requests) and control points (e.g. DBDI online verification & authorization, application for Funds Transfers), the monthly host payroll process is running accurately.
- Prepare host payroll related cost center reports to help cost center managers to understand & plan their assignment related costs better, as well as helping accounting to allocate the costs to certain cost centers.
- Collect and send bank slips to respective departments for documentation purpose. Coonidate among all parties (GPM, EY, OS HRS, controlling and accounting etc.) related to host payroll topic. Clarifiy and update new information in order to make sure payroll process running smoothly.
- Identify the payable items and follow subsequent payment processes. Checking cost centers and home bank account information.
Annual Bonus Payout
- According to variable bonus payout timeline and overseas payment restrictions of China, sharing the timeline with all the related parties and assignees. Preparing the necessary supporting documents for payroll and individual bank remittance, paying all level active assignees’ bonus successfully with the necessary communication mails.
- Reveive bonus splitting report from E&Y month, conduct control points to check the quality of the bonus splitting reports prepared by E&Y.
- Distribute the consolidate reports to responsible accountants for booking purpose. Answer questions mostly come from account for booking purpose
Monthly Individual Income Tax
- Monitor monthly expatriate IIT payment process, coordinate and implement IIT taxation process for all China inbounds; Provide correct and timely data transmission to tax service provider, check to ensure all entities and cost center information up-to-date. Collaborate with all Daimler majority entities including treasury, tax, accounting, local HR departments, and joint venture F&C departments, ensure compliant monthly IIT payment process. Coordinate between tax service provider and local HR/tax department for monthly IIT exemption process. Maintain all relevant process instructions and checklist always up-to-date.
Tax Compliance/Tax Audit
- Coordinate with local tax service provider and HRD/G Tax department on assignment related tax issues. Familiar with the service content of Global tax service provider, feedback China specific requirement and process to Global tax service provider management ensure global regular IIT service fits China local requirements. Regular communication with global payroll management team and local tax service provider.
PPSP (Performance Phantom Share Plan) Taxation
- Coordinate with respective local HR, HQ, AOP center and E&Y for the PPSP Asian countries entitled executives. Check and ensure the payout information delivered on time to responsible payroll team. Be repsonbible for PPSP tax registration for all entities supported by EY. Maintain file and share relevant documents safely. Regular communication with HQ PPSP team for any necessary information exchange.
Social Security
- Lead social security process to ensure the social security payments are done accurately and effectively, including quality check of the vendor, tracking CoCs and refunding social security fees from Bank of Beijing.
- Regulare contact with HQ GPM team and Social Security service provider for knowledge exchange
- Monitor insurance contribitin process ensure all fund are return to China eneties with full compliance
- Supervise the service provider on-site staff, give service quality feedback timely.
Benefit Reporting
- Support GPM to collect assignee’s benefit reporting information and clean the data
- Upload file process for non-monetary benefit reporting for China inbounds.
Labor Union Fee
- According monthly paid salary, IIT and cross charge data, prepare and provide assignees’ Labor Union Fee data by entities and cost centers accurately. Submit data on quarterly basis and raise payment vouchers according to business units requests.
Cross Charging
- Monthly invoice filling for cross charging for different countries and consulant accounting/LHRs with cross charging process in China. Prepare documents and contact accounting, Bank of China to do the payout which lasts around half year. Supporting new cross charging entities setup.
Accrual lists, Parameter Report and Data Maintance
- Prepare accrual list monthly and distribute to all majority eneity contolling departments.
- Accrual list inclues benefit has to be initiated and the estimated monthly salary, salary IIT, bonus, bonus IIT, labor union fee and social security costs have to be sent to accounting department for accrual purpose.
- Update assignee actual numbers ensure the accrual amounts are close to actual cost.
Housing Issues
- Rental payments: will be done via manual payment voucher. Precondition is the availability of the rental fapiao’s. Fapiao’s need to be collected, tracking lists checked and payment vouchers prepared. Rental payments need to be properly tracked and the payment status monitored. Payments that can not be done in the actual month need to be accruled. Rental payments need to be done for 10 Daimler entities.
- Guarnatees: in case Company or Bank Guarantee is given to the landlord, the application process needs to be handled and monitored. If cash deposit is given to the landlord the payment needs to be arranged and refund must be tracked at the end of the lease contract.
- Rental contracts: need to be properly tracked and filed, contract updates need to be aligned with legal department.
- New vendor creation: new vendors need to be set up in the Daimler system. The task will be to collect signatures and provide the vendor application form to accounting.
Vendor Payment
- Vendor Service fee: Ensure monthly service fee paid on time and correctly to the tax and social security vendors.
- TCN insurance: enrolment & consultation & payments.
- Household goods moving: ensure timely payout.