Global Payroll

At Astellas, we believe that nurturing exceptional relationships with our employees delivers exceptional business results.

Everyone at Astellas has a responsibility for creating a brighter future for patients around the world. From the first moment, Astellas will inspire you to put this ethos into practice - with a positive, agile company culture and with well-defined ethical principles, values, and systems.

Everything we do is led by our company values of integrity, being patient centric, taking ownership, delivering results, and communicating openly. These values are essential to Astellas’ relationship with its employees and now is an exciting time to join us as we continue to evolve as a cutting-edge, value driven life sciences innovator.

**Responsibilities
**Key Accountabilities:
- Managing and working with third party providers to ensure timely and accurate processing of multiple country payrolls
- Monitoring and managing issues, escalating as necessary ensuring timely and accurate communications are being delivered to stakeholders
- Where necessary reviewing and processing of annual tax
- Auditing of multi country bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payrolls

**Key Deliverables:
- Ensure the accurate and timely processing of global payrolls by working with third party vendors (in line with agreed service level agreements and internal performance measures)
- Ability to transform payroll files from third-party vendors into the global template in Excel.
- Work closely with peers and HR global Service Delivery and Global Payroll Team Lead to escalate and raise risks and themes that may need to be discussed or remedied at a Leadership level
- Work with third party providers to ensure that all HR and employee questions are dealt with in line with the agreed SLA’s and drive a highly positive experience for all HR customers
- Ensure data is recorded accurately and pay queries are resolved in a timely manner
- Work with internal and external J-Sox compliance team. Understand and follow strictly all J-Sox policy to ensure 100% compliance during audits.
- Plan and manage global payroll auditing and calendar management.

**Ways of Working:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with third parties, line managers, HR teams and employees whilst providing them with the highest level of service.
- Collaborate and build robust relationships with other business areas/external providers to ensure that the HR global Service Delivery and payroll team is proactively included in planning activities that affect service or resource requirements.
- Takes ownership of assigned payroll, works autonomously and within the team to execute tasks and activities
- Work in partnership with the Continuous Improvement team in order to drive and deliver best practice at all levels.
- Ability to run reports out of HR systems
- Ability to utilize excel and access to automate the checking of payroll and reporting

**Mandatory Compliance requirements: CATEGORY 1: Core
- Clarify and seek guidance as required, and raise any concerns, in a timely manner, with relevant manager; which may include reference to the Ethics and Compliance Team and/or Ethics and Compliance Helpdesk.
- Undertake and comply with relevant mandatory Ethics and Compliance training and updates to maintain personal appreciation of requirements; all training to be undertaken in a timely manner.
- Comply with the Company Way and Competences, in terms of expected values and behaviours, in addition to Company HR policies, procedures and guidelines

**Requirements
- 5-8 years of Global Payroll & Reward Service Delivery experiences.
- Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline.
- Experience of multi-country payroll in a complex organisation of similar scale.
- Strong analytical and problem
- solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and act accordingly.
- Experience of working with an outsourced and in-house HR Service Delivery model is preferable.
- Expertise in MS Office (especially Excel, Access).
- Proven ability to influence diverse senior stakeholders.
- Collaborative style with the ability to persuade, influence and negotiate at all levels.
- Fluent in written and verbal business English
- Global exposure.