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GE Vernova Payroll & Benefits Specialist - Spain in Madrid, Spain

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Job Description

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:

  • 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)

Qualifications/ Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related Business degree from an accredited university or college / equivalent knowledge or experience

  • Fully professional Spanishand  English language knowledge both verbal and written

  • Some relevant professional work experience with demonstrated achievement in Service-oriented environment.

  • Significant prior professional work experience with demonstrated achievement in Service-oriented environment.

  • Strong computer skills, highly proficient in Microsoft Excel

  • 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

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

  • Previous experience working with Workday

If contracted in Spain:

Non-national candidates are responsible to know the minimum documentation requirements to be able to be contracted in country: EU Work Permit, NIE- Social Security Affiliation Number in Spain (NAF) and Bank Account in Spain. They must be in possession of them at the time of start hiring. GE will not sponsor this requirement.

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