Payroll & Benefits Specialist - Middle East

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)

• 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

• 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)