Senior Payroll Specialist - Italian Speaking

• Location: Budapest – Sanofi Business Operations, Váci Greens
• Remote working: 60% home 40 % office
• Job type: Full time, Permanent

About the job

At Sanofi CHC, we have one shared mission– we work passionately, every day, to ‘serve healthier, fuller lives’ now and for the generations to come. Everything we do is centred around people – our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees – across the world.

We are on an exciting journey as we have created a fully standalone CHC Business Unit (separating the Business Unit from our Pharma company heritage, processes etc), to create an agile, consumer-centric and responsive organization to deliver our ambition: to become the best Fast Moving Consumer Health (FMCH) company In & For the world.

In October 2020, Global Business Services (GBS) was established as a new transversal, multi-disciplinary function. GBS is managing global end-to-end (E2E) processes, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness by using innovative solutions while simplifying and harmonizing the E2E process delivery.

In 2022, Sanofi board confirmed the need of establishing an autonomous GBS organization by extending to a new Service Line: PEOPLES SERVICES (PPL).

Therefore, GBS PEOPLES SERVICES Regional Head is looking for an Italian speeaking Senior Payroll Specialist.

For PEOPLES SERVICES, GBS will be covering the following areas of the process:

• Handle day to day benefits, time and payroll payroll activities
• Manage Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) vendor(s) when relevant
• Address operational issues with stakeholders
• Support employees queries
• Transversal: reporting, compliance, continuous improvement

Main responsibilities

During the first months of the PPL team creation, the Senior Payroll Specialist will support the knowledge transfer and system testing activities from Sanofi teams. This will include documentation and work shadowing.

Once live for a given country/region, the following details activities will be the main activities of the role, but special projects can be added regularly based upon the evolving priorities of GBS:

• Benefits activities: Based on local benefits policy, manage activities related to health and life insurance, company card or car, loans, sport or cultural support, shares…
• Time activities: control time off & time tracking data and share with payroll, prepare local reporting, ensure compliance
• Payroll activities: gather all payroll input (some are interfaced, some needs to be collected), control payroll calculation results, get payroll approval from manager, store evidences, prepare post payroll reports, manage statutory bodies, manage internal and external audit, work closely with accounting and treasury departments. In case the payroll is partially outsourced, coordinate the payroll activities with the vendor. 
• Employee Queries: assist employees on any questions related to benefits, time and payroll. You will also provide certificates, support terminated employees if needed…

Transversal

You will:

• Work closely with Employee and External Life Cycle Specialists
• Actively contribute to a great Employee Experience: assist candidates and employees with all the available self-services, assist managers and HR partners in their day-to-day administrative tasks
• Contribute to our Continuous Improvement process by providing feedback on known issues, propose ideas, take initiatives, share best practices

The HR Services team is also impacted by business initiatives such as new merger or acquisition, divestiture, new technology, outsourcing projects…

About you

Experience:

• Proven experience in payroll within a multicultural shared service environment

Soft skills:

• Self-organization skills, prioritizes effectively
• Strong communication and customer-oriented mindset
• Capable of handling difficult situations by demonstrating professionalism and confidentiality
• Ability to work with a team to create effective strategies and meet team goals

Technical skills:

• General knowledge of Human Resources policies and procedures
• Previous experience with Workday or similar Global HR systems is a plus
• Experience with SAP is a plus

Education:

• BA/ BSc or Equivalent in HR or related discipline

Languages:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Italian

When joining our team, you will experience:

• An international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team
• An attractive, market-oriented salary and cafeteria benefits
• Flexible home office policy, with a possibility to work up to 60% of time from home / where you can easily schedule your office days
• Work from an "Office of the Year 2020" finalist office
• Collective life and accident insurance
• Yearly medical check-up
• An individual and well-structured introduction and training of new employees and we will dedicate a Buddy for you to better navigate in your first weeks
• Your own career path within Sanofi. Your professional and personal development will be supported purposefully
• Practice your language skills within our "Language Club"
• Join a great community & special events (Monthly Board Game Nights, Summer Events, Well-Being Lectures & Sport Clubs)

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability, gender identity or Veteran status.

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