Payroll Specialist

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**Position Summary**

Ensure accurate and timely delivery of assigned country payroll services (France) to ensure compliant with the organization and legal requirements; manage vendor relationships; respond to the payroll operations queries. The BMS HR Service Delivery Model is a shared service outsourced model, and this role will interface with business partners, Compensation, Savings Plan & Benefits, Financial Shared Services General Accounting, as well as our outsourced payroll providers. The position is also responsible for the upload of payroll related data onto the required payroll vendor online tools, downloading of the payroll outputs, and distribution to the relevant individuals or teams within the BMS business. The position holder will be a SME for the chosen Payroll country and will be a first level escalation point for any issues.

**Key Business Partners**

Payroll Analysts

HR Business Partners, HR COE Leads, Global HR Services Team Members

**Detailed Position Responsibilities**

**Additional Responsibilities**
- Ensure all payroll operations are processed timely and accurately
- Implement processes improvements related to payroll delivery
- Provide payroll query support by ensuring responses are dealt with in a timely manner. Where required. follow up with vendors or escalate to Regional Payroll Lead
- Use global payroll tools and prepare appropriate payroll calculations to ensure proper payroll processing
- Facilitate and participate in governance process used for analysis and approval of payroll work requests and projects
- Collaborate with Total Rewards to understand the savings and benefits calculations and the impact on payroll calculation
- Coordinate with Outsourced Service Provider regarding all policies, programs and processes related to payroll
- Work with the BMS HR Service Delivery Team to ensure service provider is achieving SLA’s
- Manage employee queries via the company’s CRM, whilst adhering to KPI’s and delivering high quality customer service
- Assess the delivery impact of any HR management policy changes, regulatory or compliance changes may have on the service provider and BMS Payroll operations
- Aid in overseeing the implementation of payroll system solutions for acquisitions
- Interface with Total Rewards COE to identify and address any administrative needs related to global compensation and benefit programs. Leverage expertise to produce solutions that enable global consistency and standardization and facilitate exceptional performance
- 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
- Validation and sign off of the chosen country payroll on a monthly basis and any additional cycles that may be required
- SME for Technical queries in relation to the Payroll platform
- 1st level escalation point for market queries
- Cover for Payroll Supervisor during absence
- Support ad hoc research at global level to support data analysis and insight
- Review existing business practices and support the identification and updating of outdated business processes in collaboration with HRIT partners and Vendor

**Desired Experience**

**Must have requirements**:

- Excellent written and oral communication skills - English & French
- Degree preferred in Business Administration, Accounting or Finance or equivalent
- Experience with end-to -end payroll processing including time management, leave administration, registration, pay processing, payroll taxes, reporting, and experience dealing with payroll queries and issues from employees
- Must be customer-focused and comfortable working with a diverse group of people
- Knowledgeable of MS Office suite, particularly Excel
- Experience working in a Shared Services environment
- Comprehensive knowledge Payroll, Payroll Tax, and Payroll Accounting and related end to end processes

**Preferred requirements**:

- Workday, ADP and SAP end-user experience
- Strong interpersonal communication skills
- Desire to work in a fast paced, change oriented, complex environment

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.