Payroll and C&B Operations Lead (2-year fixed-term contract)

Syngenta Group is one of the world’s biggest agricultural technology companies, with roots going back more than 250 years. With more than 59,000 employees, operating in more than 100 countries, the company strives to transform food production through Regenerative Agriculture- a science-driven, technology-enabled approach to improve soil, deliver high productivity and high-quality food, help fight climate change and restore lost biodiversity.

As part of Syngenta’s HR Operations team, you will coordinate critical payroll and Comp and Ben related activities across the region, provide expert advice to in-country teams on global policies, processes and good practices, and manage change requests and incidents. You will lead process improvement and automation initiatives and perform administrative processes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Coordinate the annual compensation cycle across Europe
• Coordinate ad hoc and recurring payroll activities across Europe
• Identify opportunities for introducing new approaches, improvement and automation in the field of payroll across Europe and potentially worldwide and coordinate implementation
• Coordinate payroll and compensation & benefits related change requests
• Provide expert advice in the field of payroll, annual compensation cycle and related processes
• Contribute to capability building across HR teams in the Region
• Act as a regional point of escalation for payroll incidents
• Contribute to strategic initiatives and projects
• Manage administration like vendor invoices, monitoring of fees, PO creation, access to payroll systems, regular access audits, DL lists, sharepoints

Qualifications:

• Excellent operational or SME experience in the payroll and HR domain with a proven track record in actively being a part of implementing payroll improvements and automation through to delivery
• Experience working with large regional teams in a matrixed environment
• Experience collaborating across geographies and cultures
• Strong payroll and C&B operations expertise, change management experience and capabilities
• Experience working with payroll vendors and with an in-house payroll setting
• Strong technical knowledge with HR systems (Workday, SAP), integrations, automation
• You will have the ability to analyse information to reach an answer or conclusion, challenge status quo, effective problem solving, think end-to-end across data, technology, processes and teams
• High level of effective communication with ability to adapt style and language to the audience
• Ability to deliver administrative activities accurately and on time
• Lean/Six Sigma certification

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.