Zalaris

Board/Management Information • Apr 28, 2021

Telefónica Deutschland / O2 awards Zalaris agreement for payroll outsourcing services

Telefónica Deutschland / O2 awards Zalaris agreement for payroll outsourcing services

Zalaris ASA has been awarded a five-year agreement to provide outsourced payroll

services to Telefónica's 8,200 employees in Germany.

As part of the agreement Zalaris will consolidate Telefónica Deutschland / O2's

two SAP payroll solutions to Zalaris' SAP powered PeopleHub concept with the

goal of maximising quality and efficiency through automation and digital

workflows. The solution will be integrated with Telefónica Deutschland / O2's

SAP SuccessFactors based global HR system with a production start date in

January 2022.

Telefónica's employees and managers will receive a comprehensive suite of

payroll outsourcing services from Zalaris' Leipzig based service center.

Reuse of trusted SAP Payroll/Time on-premise solutions with Mobile App enabled

processes and automation technologies in the Zalaris Cloud.

Zalaris' cloud based transformational Payroll and HR approach supports customers

consolidating multiple solutions into one cloud-based system in a timely and

cost-effective manner. The services are perfect for companies that want to

future proof their investments in SAP Payroll and Time through moving these to

the Zalaris Cloud platform located in Europe.  Including responsibility for the

maintenance and future upgrades, mobile app supported processes, analytics and

extensive automation delivered back as Business Process as a Service (BPaas).

Integration between global HR and Payroll is key for quality and efficiency

"Fully integrated with global HR solutions as SAP SuccessFactors, Workday or

Oracle and combined with our full-service payroll outsourcing offering allows

customers as Telefonica Deutschland to rapidly reap the benefits while leaving

all the complexity of implementation and maintenance with us," says Hans-Petter

Mellerud, Zalaris CEO and founder.

"Together with people focused and digitally literate Telefónica Deutschland we

have high ambitions in terms of digitalisationof processes. We already

appreciate working together and are confident that our platform-based solutions

will deliver on promise" - says Marianne Gause, Vice President Managed Services

Germany.

Contact:

Hans-Petter Mellerud, CEO and founder

Mobile: +47 928 97 276

E-mail: hans-petter.mellerud@zalaris.com

Marianne Gause, Vice President Managed Services, Germany

Mobile: +49 151 14860215

Email: Marianne.gause@zalaris.com

About Zalaris

Zalaris simplify HR and payroll administration, and empower you with useful

information so that you can invest more in people. We are a leading service

provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions across Europe, serving more

than 1.5 million employees monthly with an annual revenue of 78 million Euros

(2020). We hold #1 or #2 positions in most of our markets. Our consultants have

more than 21 years of experience in transforming HR with our clients. Simplify

work life. Achieve more. For more information about us, go to zalaris.com.

About Telefónica Deutschland / O2

Telefónica Deutschland / O2 offers telecommunications services for private and

business customers, as well as innovative digital products and services in the

fields of the Internet of Things and data analytics. The company is one of the

leading integrated telecommunications providers in Germany. In the mobile

segment alone, Telefónica Deutschland / O2 is responsible for more than 42,9

million connections excluding M2M (as of 31 Dec 2020) - no other domestic

network operator connects more people. Through its core brand O2 and various

secondary and partner brands, the company sells postpaid and prepaid mobile

telecommunications products including innovative mobile data services. The basis

for this is a mobile service network based on a highly reliable GSM, UMTS and

LTE infrastructure. At the same time, the company is setting up an energy

-efficient high-performance 5G network. Telefónica Deutschland also provides

telephony and high-speed internet products on the basis of various technologies.

Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG has been listed in the Prime Standard on the

Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX) since 2012. In the 2020 financial year, the

company generated revenue of EUR 7.5 billion with almost 8,200 employees. The

company is majority owned by the Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica

S.A., headquartered in Madrid. With operations in 12 countries and a customer

base of base of approximately 345 million connections, the group is one of the

world's biggest telecommunications providers.