Payroll & Benefit Operations Specialist (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 Senior/Mid-Level Payroll and Benefits Specialist with French or Italian, please submit your CV. We are looking forward to receiving your application!
The position
As Senior/Mid-level Payroll & Benefit Operations Specialist with French or Italian you will provide professional support to payroll and benefits services to Line of Business (LoB) in EMEA region. You will support our growth journey and be involved in business integrations, as well as support the end-to-end payroll process while ensuring accurate and timely delivery of remuneration to Novo Nordisk employees.
Your main responsibilities for Payroll & Benefits Specialist will be to:

• Supporting 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.
• Optimize payroll operational processes in accordance with the PBO Team goals.
• Supporting our integration projects.

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-centered mindset and solid business understanding as well as focus on operational excellence and delivering on KPIs are also necessary. It is also important to be reliable, accurate, and aware of the 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 organization for senior position and 2 years' experience for mid-level position.
• Proficiency in Italian and/or French, both written and verbal, along with proficiency in English
• Preferably experience from working in a shared service centre
• Experience with payroll practices and regulations from 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
• 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, optimization, and continuous improvements.
About the department
EMEA Regional Service Centre (RSC EMEA) is co-located with the Business Area office for Europe East and the Polish affiliate. With annual budgeted sales level of over 700 million DKK and with 130 employees in the Polish affiliate the company ambition is to continuously improve quality of patients' life and bring innovation into the markets.
The RSC EMEA is formed by three departments - AskHR (HR administration and employee support), Transition (project and systems management) and Payroll and Benefits Operations (PBO) department, which delivers payroll and benefits support to countries like France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, UK and Ireland.
Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That's why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 63,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing.
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.