Payroll Operations Consultant

Overview:
**About the job**:
Conduct Payroll administration and detailed support on Payroll Operations to all internal customers for a specified country or countries.

Provide advice and support to internal and external customers based on strong knowledge of country payroll compliance and understanding of SITA's processes, procedures, and policies related to payroll. Participate in Payroll Operations projects and roll out of programs.

**What You Will Do**

**Payroll Management**
- Prepare and input data for salary payments accurately and on time.
- Support annual Reward Plan activities
- Work closely with internal HR stakeholders, outsourced payroll vendors and internal Finance to ensure the smooth workflow of all payroll related matters.
- Receive and respond to, everyday enquiries from internal and external customers. Providing a timely and effective service to others.

**Benefits Administration**
- Work closely with benefits providers and any legal authorities to ensure the smooth workflow of all benefit administration
- Support the administration of employee benefit programs including medical, life, disability, and health plans; administration of employees’ savings plans including pensions and other benefits including global leave policies, vouchers/allowances
- Manage Purchase to Pay (P2P) process relating to benefits activities in a timely and accurate manner and collaborate with Finance to ensure invoices are paid in accordance with contractual terms and working together with them to investigate and resolve any delays or issues that may arise
- Manage new provider set ups for benefits activities and assist in contract processing as required
- Advise and inform employees, in collaboration with the People Country Manager, of changes and developments related to benefits including eligibility, coverage and provisions
- Investigate and resolve employee benefit enquires and escalations
- Review, enhance and document processes and procedures related to your activities and communicate them to relevant stakeholders
- Build and maintain an extensive data repository for all benefit information including suppliers and consultants including collecting and monitoring contracts

**Governance and Compliance**
- Prepare documents, presentations, and other materials, as requested for internal and external audit requests.
- Follows company ordering procedures, process purchase orders and invoices for payment and resolve any cost centre queries.
- Monitor changes in legislation that impact payroll and escalate details to the Payroll Manager/People Country Manager.

**Business Support**
- Provide administrative support as required for internal communication. This includes support for local and corporate news briefings, statutory reporting requirements.
- Support GEO People with any data requirement requests needed to support Business Cases such as mergers & acquisitions, transfer of undertakings, outsourcing and large deals.
- Work in partnership with GL finance team to ensure correct submitting of payroll data to finance team

**Who You Are**
- Minimum 3+ years of experience working with HR process or HR Operations.
- Experience with HRIM system, preferably PeopleSoft.
- Fluent in English.
- Knowledge of key aspects of employment law.
- Understanding of Data Protection laws and policies and how this applies to their activities.

**Knowledge And Skills**
- Working knowledge of country employment regulations related to payroll compliance and calculation
- Have an understanding of Data Protection and how this applies to their activities.
- Have an understanding of Equal Opportunities and Ethics practices and how this applies to their activities.

**What We Offer**

SITA’s workplace is all about diversity many different countries and cultures are represented in our workforce, and colleagues who’ve been working here for decades collaborate with those just out of college and early in their careers. SITA is a place of change and constant improvement, where we're always pushing ourselves to find better ways of doing things smarter, quicker, easier, for us and our customers and for their customers too.

And we offer all the good stuff you’d expect like holidays, bonus, flexible benefits, medical policy, pension plan and access to world class learning.

**Welcome to SITA**

We design, build, and support technology solutions all with one vision to create easy air travel every step of the way. As an organization, we cover 95% of all international air travel destinations and work with over 2,800 air transport and government customers in every corner of the globe. Are you ready to explore the opportunities?