Payroll & Benefits Specialist - UK/Ireland

at  GE Vernova

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a P&B Specialist you will be participating in Payroll and/or Benefit 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&Benefits processes and also partnering and supporting an external payroll vendor and country-based benefit providers.
There may be multiple positions associated with this role.

QUALIFICATIONS/ REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related Business degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent knowledge or experience
• Fully professional English language knowledge both verbal and written
• Proven relevant professional work experience with demonstrated achievement in Service-oriented environment.
• Significant prior professional work experience with demonstrated achievement in Service-oriented environment.
• 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

• 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
• Cooperating with 3td party provider when necessary
• Creating respective documents that support the regulations of the country-specific legal environment
• Being proactive in handling process gaps that you face and being involved to find a solution and participating in process improvements (we are keen advocate of Lean methodology when changing our processes for the better)