Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $30 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or growing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of over 80,000 colleagues offers an outstanding combination of brand-new technologies, convenient purchasing options, and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.
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We are seeking qualified candidates to join our team as a Payroll Manager. As a world-class leader in the field of life sciences, we are dedicated to enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. This exciting opportunity will allow you to play a crucial role in ensuring flawless payroll processes and compliance with audit, SOX controls, and regulatory requirements.
Position Summary
Collaborate with HR, Finance, IT, Audit, Government Authorities, and Payroll Vendors to ensure accurate and timely payroll execution and meet statutory responsibilities.
The Payroll Manager ensures optimal payroll operations by managing team and vendor performance. They work closely with the HR Operations team, payroll team leaders across APAC and global locations. They analyze trends, provide training, and monitor performance to meet SLA's. Establishing a stable, standardized, and professional operating environment is essential for exceeding customer and leadership expectations.
The position reports directly to the Payroll Director.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage regional payroll operations for various APAC countries.
- Establish compliant processes and conduct audits to ensure compliance to established payroll operational controls.
- Oversee the day-to-day activities and hands on leadership if needed, to ensure timely and accurate delivery of all payrolls whilst ensuring compliance to applicable local legislation.
- Monitors case management activity levels to ensure SLA's are being met
- Build in-depth payroll knowledge within the team supporting with development, career-paths and succession planning.
- Payroll Metrics review and reporting
- Engaging with Collaborators within the organization
- Managing Issues
- Change Management
- Compliance management and audit management
- Vendor Management (including contracts review and renewal)
- Support process improvement initiatives and build a culture of continuous improvement.
- Research, propose, and implement standard methodologies and consistently question the current approach to identify more efficient ways to manage regional payroll.
- Participate in business/functional projects as required.
- Any other duties as required to ensure the delivery of a world-class payroll service to our colleagues.
Qualifications:
- Prior experience of at least 3-5 years' experience in leading payroll operations within a large multi-national or Shared Service Center environment.
- Regional APAC payroll experience including comprehensive understanding of country level legislation and regulation across Asia Pacific is required.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with various internal and external collaborators.
- Ability to interpret and communicate policies, procedures, and statutory changes.
- Ability to develop, lead, empower and supervise payroll teams across various countries.
- Able to demonstrate problem solving and decision-making skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills needed with the ability to communicate well in a diverse work environment.
- Ability to maintain a positive attitude and meet deadlines whilst managing a number of priorities.
- Individual should have high energy with the ability to organize/prioritize workload
- Workday, ServiceNow and ADP Globalview experience preferred.
- Payroll implementation/project experience preferred.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 80,000 outstanding minds have a unique story to tell.
Join us and contribute to our remarkable mission-enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.