Job Description Summary
Job Description
This role involves all aspects of payroll processes within People Operations ensuring accuracy and compliance with local regulations where as a P&B Specialist you will be participating in Payroll and/or Benefit, Pension and Time&Attendance related 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 for multiple Legal entities within GE Vernova and its sub businesses. You will work closely with GE Vernova HR business partners and accountants and cooperating with Senior experts as owners of Payroll&Benefits, Time and attendance, Pension (PPK, PPE) processes and also partnering and supporting an external payroll vendor, country-based benefit providers, and an external partner of People Ops processes.
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Essential Responsibilities:
- Advise on questions/requests from employees, managers and the HR community from GE Vernova business concerning payments, allowances, and tax treatments in a professional, courteous & timely manner
- Review payroll entries and the files for multiple GE Vernova legal entities to ensure they meet the necessary quality & compliance requirements
- Understand payroll GL and payroll accounting
- Handling Time&Attendance processes for multiple GE Vernova legal entities
- Prepare reports, reconciliations and associated statistics related to payroll and benefit activities such as benefits, company shares, pension (PPK, PPE) and associated administrative tasks.
- Participate in and supports internal & external payroll audits
- Collaborate with external providers to address and resolve employee queries effectively
- Act as a local expert/advisor on activities performed by external partner (e.g. TIER1, data change, etc)
- Train the new external provider and continuously help to improve the processes
- Mentor and coach team members in daily operational questions - provide support, training
- Handle escalations and influence necessary parties
- Organize and facilitate team meetings/ huddles
- Deal with operational issues and process failures, identifying and implementing appropriate solutions.
- Maintain and update workflows and systems which are used for the operation
- 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 and support standardization of local processes to be align with the global standards
- 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)
Qualifications/ Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related Business degree from an accredited university or college is advantage / equivalent knowledge or experience
- Fully professional Polish and fluent, upper intermediate level of English language knowledge both verbal and written
- Relevant experience in People Operation/payroll with demonstrated achievements
- In-depth knowledge of local payroll regulations and compliance requirements
- 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
- Experience working with Workday, SAP and ticketing system
- Suggests opportunities & root cause issues proactively, highlights them to operations teams. Initiates and drives change/ improvement own his/her own, managing projects with tracked record
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
- Strong computer skills, highly proficient in Microsoft Excel
- Good presentation / facilitation skills