Mid-Level/Senior Payroll & Benefits Operations Specialist with French or Italian- Talent Pipeline

Are you passionate about standardizing payroll and benefits operations as well as process transitions across EMEA? Do you thrive in an international working environment? Would you like to shape the future of payroll and benefits operations in Novo Nordisk and support our colleagues to serve patients with chronic diseases even more? If yes, you may consider joining our Payroll and Benefits Operations team that we are expanding in Warsaw.

Apply today and join us for a life-changing career.

You are applying to be a part of a Novo Nordisk Talent Pool (Pipeline), not a currently open position. Joining our pipeline means that you will be considered as a potential match for current and upcoming positions to ensure you don’t miss out on a life-changing career. When an opportunity arises, we will reach out and invite you for an interview. We will keep your application for six months ensuring the best opportunities to provide a solid match for open positions. If you would like to be considered for Payroll and Benefits Specialist with French or Italian, please submit your CV. We are looking forward to receiving your application! 

The position

As a Mid-Level/Senior Payroll & Benefits Operations (PBO) Specialist with French or Italian, you will provide professional payroll and benefits services to Line of Business (LoB) in EMEA region. In particular you will be responsible for supporting and coordinating the end-to-end payroll process (EMEA countries) while ensuring accurate and timely delivery of remuneration to Novo Nordisk employees.

Key Accountabilities:

• Coordinate the end-to-end payroll processes for assigned countries.
• Cooperate closely with internal and external stakeholders (including payroll provider).
• Respond to payroll queries escalated from HR and/or employees.
• Provide administration of local benefits if applicable.
• Optimise payroll operational processes in accordance with the PBO Team goals.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you need to have knowledge and savviness regarding cultural differences. Strong communication and change management capabilities as well as excellent stakeholder management skills in an international environment are also crucial in this role. Customer-centred mindset and solid business understanding as well as focus on operational excellence and delivering on KPIs are also necessary. It is also important in this role to be reliable, accurate and aware of the level of sensitivity of the data processed daily which has a direct impact on the company’s employees’ lives.

We expect you to have:

• Minimum 4 years’ experience in payroll processing in one or more large scale organisation.
• Preferably experience from working in a shared service centre.
• Experience with French/Italian speaking countries Payroll, but we also value familiarity with payroll practices, regulations from other EMEA countries.
• Experience in working with third-party payroll solution provider.
• Proficiency with HRIS such as SAP, Employee Central, as well as a strong command of MS Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work accurately and to deadlines.
• Proficiency in English and French/Italian, both written and verbal.
• A high degree of integrity, a collaborative team mindset, a willingness to travel, and the ability to effectively plan and prioritize tasks.

On a personal level you should have strong analytical skills to drive process standardization, optimisation and continuous improvements.

About the department

EMEA Regional Service Centre (RSC EMEA) is co-located with the Business Area office for Europe East, the Polish affiliate, DD&IT department and Clinical Development Center (CDC). With annual budgeted sales level of over 700 million DKK the company ambition is to continuously improve quality of patients’ life and bring innovation into the markets.

The RSC EMEA is formed by two departments – AskHR (HR administration and employee support) and Payroll, Development & Operations (PBO, project and systems management). The payroll department (PBO) delivers payroll and benefits support to countries like France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Ireland and UK.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

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We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.