Senior Payroll Specialist

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Position Summary:

Support the organization’s payroll and time and attendance to ensure accurate, efficient, and timely delivery of assigned payroll service to our internal customers. To be compliant with the organization and legal requirements, manage vendor relationships at specialist level and respond to the payroll and time and attendance operations queries.

The BMS HR Service Delivery Model is a shared services model and this role will interface with Business Partners, Total Rewards COEs, Financial Shared Services General Accounting, as well as outsourced payroll providers.

The position is also responsible for end-to-end payroll processing including employee queries, vendor management, preparation and the upload of assigned country payrolls related data into the required payroll vendor tools, downloading, controlling and validating of the payroll outputs, and distribution to the relevant individuals or teams within the BMS business, as per the payroll BPMs.

Key Responsibilities and Major Duties:

• Ensure to process timely and accurately the assigned country payrolls.
• Implement process improvements related to payroll delivery.
• Provide Tier 2 support to all country payroll queries, ensuring to deal with responses in a timely manner.  Where required, follow up with vendors or escalate to direct manager or up on People Services hierarchical chain.
• Use global payroll tools and prepare appropriate payroll calculations to ensure proper payroll processing.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for time and attendance.
• Facilitate and participate in governance process used for analysis and approval of allocated country payrolls work requests and projects.
• Collaborate with People Services Total Rewards to understand the savings and benefits calculations and leave of absences and the impact these have on payroll calculation and declarations.  Ensure clear understanding of end to end processes to ensure accurate payroll processing.
• Collaborate on regular basis with the Service Provider regarding implementing and testing the BMS requirements, programs and processes related to payroll and time and attendance.
• Work with the BMS People Services to ensure payroll deadlines are achieved.
• Work with the payroll vendor to assess the delivery impact of HR management policy changes, regulatory or compliance changes may have on the service provider and BMS Payroll operations.
• Contribute in the implementation of payroll system solutions for acquisitions.
• Proactively develop and maintain technical knowledge in payrolls remaining up-to-date on current trends and best practices.
• Interface with payroll and benefits vendors, as needed, to ensure compliance with established procedures.
• Maintain and report a scorecard to communicate vendor SLA and performance to regional leads and to global process leaders.
• Follow the People Services processes in executing the job responsibilities: Global BPMs and the Localized Work Instructions (LWIs) for allocated countries. To maintain the LWIs content updated and in line with People Services requirements as well as country local legal and regulatory aspects.

Qualification and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, major in accounting or finance is preferred; advanced degree a plus.
• Minimum of 5~7 years Payroll relevant business experience
• Comprehensive knowledge of Payroll, Payroll Tax, and Payroll Accounting and related end to end processes.
• The candidate must have ability to manage multiple tasks, be well organized, and have a proven track record of meeting or exceeding deadlines.
• Strong, oral, written and interpersonal communication skills are vital.
• The successful candidate must be a self starter, highly motivated, and work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to analyze and diagnose situations and create innovative solutions to ensure organization effectiveness.
• Ability to influence the actions of others through collaborative working relationships. Desire to work in a fast paced, change oriented, complex environment.

​Ideal Candidates Would Also Have: 

• Knowledge and experience of using Workday HCM

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

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On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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