Payroll and C&B Operations Lead (2-year fixed-term contract)

Purpose:

Part of Syngenta’s HR Operations team you will coordinate critical payroll and Comp and Ben related activities across the region, provide expert advise to in-country teams on global policies, processes and good practices and manage change requests and incidents. You will lead process improvement and automation initiatives and perform administrative processes. To be successful we believe you will have a strong payroll and HR delivery background and have recent experience in improvement and automation.

You will partner with key stakeholders across the Europe region and on global projects therefore strong relationship and influencing skills is important as well as the ability to manage multiple tasks. This is an autonomous role and will suit an individual who demonstrates the skills above along with experience of working in a culturally diverse environment.

We all have a critical role to play and add value. Here is how this role will help:

• Coordinate the annual compensation cycle across Europe
• Coordinate ad hoc and recurring payroll activities across Europe (disaster recovery plans, yearly calendars, bonus payments, data reconciliation, audit processes)
• Identify opportunities for introducing new approaches, improvement and automation in the field of payroll across Europe and potentially worldwide and coordinate implementation
• Coordinate payroll and compensation & benefits related change requests
• Provide expert advise in the field of payroll, annual compensation cycle and related processes
• Contribute to capability building across HR teams in the Region
• Act as a regional point of escalation for payroll incidents
• Contribute to strategic initiatives and projects
• Manage administration like vendor invoices, monitoring of fees, PO creation, access to payroll systems, regular access audits, DL lists, sharepoints