Job Description Summary
Job Description
Summary
As a P&B Specialist, you will be participating in Payroll processes where you will be handling Employee / HR queries, reporting and reconciliation activities and being involved in projects of improving/simplifying your respective process responsibilities. You will work closely with respective HR business partners and accountants and cooperating with Senior experts / owners of Payroll processes and also partnering and supporting an external payroll vendor
Essential Responsibilities
- Execute Payroll & Benefits processes, ensuring high standards of accuracy and quality are maintained based on compliance with relevant legal and GE Vernova policy requirements.
- Advise on questions/requests from employees, managers and the HR community concerning payments, allowances, and tax treatments in a professional, courteous & timely manner
- Review payroll entries and the files to ensure they meet the necessary quality & compliance requirements
- Understand payroll GL and payroll accounting
- Prepare reports, reconciliations and associated statistics related to payroll and benefit activities such as pension, benefits, company shares.
- Participate in internal & external payroll audits
- Deal with operational issues and process failures, identifying and implementing appropriate solutions.
- Develop action plan to mitigate operational risks or resolve escalated issues
- Proactively seek customer feedback to identify areas for simplification, standardization and productivity within assigned process.
- Build and share knowledge of area of expertise by continuously keeping up to date with internal and external updates and changes
- Ensure that high standards of accuracy and quality are maintained with appropriate controls in place, taking accountability for compliance with relevant legal and GE Vernova policy requirements
- Develop a strong working relationship with the GE HR community through proactive facilitation & improvement of HR processes, ensuring effective communication and early identification of requirements & any issues
- Identify frequent customers / process issues and be able to suggest process, procedure and training improvement opportunities
- Cooperate with payroll provider to have an efficient process
- Create respective documents that support the regulations of the country-specific legal environment
- Be proactive in handling process gaps and find a solutions and participate in process improvements (we are keen advocate of Lean methodology when changing our processes for the better)
Qualifications/ Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related Business degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent experience/ knowledge
- Minimum 2 years of relevant professional work experience with demonstrated achievement in Service-oriented environment.
- Strong computer skills, highly proficient in Microsoft Excel
- Comprehensive understanding of and ability to assimilate regulatory and compliance.
- Ability to work in a complex and rapidly changing work environment across multiple stakeholder groups, with comfort and efficiency
- Ability to communicate effective through written and verbal communication and consistently deliver high quality customer service in a professional manner
- Demonstrated effectiveness to prioritize between tasks with different deadlines, complexity
Desired Characteristics
- Strong problem-solving skills to quickly identify and present the creative/collaborative solutions
- Ability to make decisions and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, multi-task and highly matrixed environment, and connect effectively with employees
- Previous experience working with payroll / finance
- Proficiency in Payroll & Benefits systems (ex. Workday) and technologies
- Cultural awareness & sensitivity: ability to flex style to suit differing cultural norms
- Ability to anticipate and resolve challenges
- Ability to drive process improvements
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
