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Payroll and Reward Specialist

Employer
Roche Diagnostics
Location
​Burgess Hill
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
20 May 2019

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Sector
Engineering & Manufacturing, Healthcare
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Type
Payroll

Job Details

Payroll and Reward Specialist - UK and Ireland
Burgess Hill

Are you an experienced Payroll professional looking to broaden your expertise into the Reward field in a world leading company in biotech and medical diagnostics, with Fortune 500 ranking?

Does it excite you to work with diverse internal and external stakeholders to ‘do now what patients need next’?

If your answer is yes to both these questions, we welcome you to apply for a Payroll & Reward Specialist opportunity at Roche Diagnostics UK & Ireland, based in Burgess Hill, West Sussex.

About the organisation

Roche Diagnostics UK & Ireland is in an exciting phase of growth, where the business is channelling its energy, focus, functions and processes towards enhancing customer and patient experience in the countries it operates in. As the medical diagnostics market-leader in UK & Ireland, the organisation recognises its responsibility to the healthcare system and will continue to remain agile in developing new ways of working, with a growth mind set.

About the role

We are looking for an in-house Payroll and Reward Specialist to support our successful business which continues to grow at pace. Our healthcare organisation has a passion for providing the best employee experience and is looking for a like-minded candidate to put their people at the heart of what they do, by delivering an expert and professional payroll and reward service, acting as the subject matter expert for statutory (regulatory) and procedural matters.

You will have autonomy to manage the UK & Irish payroll service for c.600 employees -  including reviewing the payroll input, performing the validation of monthly data changes, obtaining sign-off and providing confirmation to our payroll service providers. You will additionally be part of the UK Reward team whose mission is to design and deliver the UK Reward Strategy across all Roche affiliates in the UK/Ireland. The role will involve responsibility for the integrity of our local UK and Ireland Job Catalogue. 

Your role will involve attending meetings at our UK site in Hertfordshire, as well as occasional visits to see external vendors elsewhere in the UK & Ireland.

Your main responsibilities & accountabilities will include:
From a payroll perspective:

  • Management of the UK & Irish payroll reconciliation process
  • Preparation of monthly payrolls, including processing all payroll changes including back pay
  • PAYE & NI reconciliation (including annual activities such as P11s submission process
  • Identify and implement continuous improvement across the payroll and reward as we recently moved to Workday
  • Prepare analytics and insightful reports to the HR Leadership Team and Business as required
  • Respond and resolve payroll and tax related queries
  • Manage the work flow between Workday and our third party Payroll Providers (Resource Link in the UK and Jefferson in the Republic of Ireland)

From a reward perspective:

  • Support the annual merit review cycle and conduct all the activities in collaboration with the UK Reward and HR Business Partners Teams
  • Review the external salary benchmarking data to advise on job evaluations and provide advice to local HR and business teams
  • Support with recognition and incentive schemes
  • Interrogate data and provide management reporting
  • Ensure integrity of the distribution of pay reference points and grade levels across all job families of the UK and Ireland
  • Represents the Diagnostics perspective in the planning process for communicating key Reward messages, including the coordination with external partners

About you
This is a busy role and you will need to use your previous payroll specialist expertise and show initiative in order to fully carve out your contribution and drive key improvement initiatives. You should have previous experience and strong interest in rewarding people topics. You should be extremely organised and used to working at a fast pace. You must have high attention to detail, able to be a quick study whilst working independently and as part of a wider team of HR professionals.

Qualifications Required

  • Degree educated or equivalent in Human Resources or related business field.
  • First successful experience in Payroll and Reward.

Desired qualification

  • CIPD/CIPP Level 3 qualified, part qualified or equivalent is desired.

Experience Required

  • Significant payroll management experience with a proven track record in a similar role (ideally gained in the healthcare industry)
  • Track record of confidently using HR and payroll administrative systems and processes (i.e. Workday, SAP, ADP etc.)
  • Experience of management of payroll via a 3rd party payroll bureau
  • A track record of continuous improvement projects from conception to completion
  • Experience in management of salary sacrifice arrangements
  • Preparation of all tax documentation, e.g. P60’s & P11D’s etc

Skills/knowledge

  • Advanced Excel skills with all round strong Microsoft Office
  • Strong analytical and numeracy skills to draw insightful reports – with high attention to detail
  • Knowledge of HMRC regulations of PAYE and NI
  • Passion for driving continuous improvement, optimization and innovation to redefine best practices in payroll and reward management
  • Ability to deal sensitively with confidential material
  • Strong interpersonal (verbal and written) communication skills
  • Ability to communicate with various levels of management
  • A quick study with strong problem solving, organisational and prioritising skills
  • Able to operate independently and as part of a close knit team of HR professionals located locally and remotely

If this sounds like you and you wish to join an organisation that prides themselves on long lasting experiences and is doing what patients need next, please click on the Apply button now!

Investing in you

Roche is a company that not only invests in its business – over £6.5 billion in R&D worldwide, including £460 million in the UK last year – but equally importantly in its people.
What this means for you is, not only a competitive salary and benefits package, but also a recognised product training programme and continuous support to build on your knowledge, skills and potential, helping you prepare for the exciting opportunities for further career development. All of which has gained Roche 2019 Top Employer status in the UK and Europe and The 2019 Sunday Times’ Award as one of the 100 best companies to work for.

Application closing date: 20th May 2019

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.

Company

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Roche  

 

About Roche

 

Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, virology, inflammation, metabolism and CNS. Roche is also the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics, tissue-based cancer diagnostics and a pioneer in diabetes management.

 

Roche’s personalised healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostic tools that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients. In 2010, Roche had over 80,000 employees worldwide and invested over 9 billion Swiss francs in R&D. The Group posted sales of 47.5 billion Swiss francs.

 

Genentech, United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche has a majority stake in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan.

 

For more information, go to www.roche.com.

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

A global leader with deep roots in Switzerland

 

Innovation and tradition have made Roche what it is today: one of the world’s biggest biotech companies and a leading supplier of in-vitro diagnostics and medicines for cancer and transplantation.

 

Increasingly, our innovative diagnostic systems and medicines enable the early detection and targeted treatment of disease. Our goals: to support effective preventive care, enable accurate diagnosis, relieve suffering and help people live longer, healthier lives.

 

Roche has been headquartered in Basel since the company’s founding 115 years ago. The international success story that began very early in the company’s history was launched here. Today Roche employs roughly 11,700 people at six sites in Switzerland and a total of over 80,000 people in 150 countries worldwide — all of them working to improve patients’ lives.

 

 

 

Basel: the Group’s strategic hub
Basel is home to Roche’s Corporate Executive Committee and most Group functions. The Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics Divisions both have their headquarters here, with major Pharma research and development, manufacturing, marketing and administration organisations also located on site.

 

Roughly 9,200 people work at the Basel site. Northwest Switzerland is an ideal location for a healthcare company. The city of Basel and the surrounding region are Europe ’s strongest, most important centre for the life sciences. Competition is a spur to excellence. Today Roche is one of the three largest research organisations in Switzerland. Roche Basel includes the Kaiseraugst site (15 km from the main campus), where the Roche Group operates its largest, most modern packaging and logistics centre.

 

 

 

 

 

Rotkreuz: a pivotal Diagnostics site
The second largest Roche site in Switzerland is Rotkreuz, on Lake Zug. Rotkreuz is home to the marketing and sales company Roche Diagnostics (Schweiz) AG and several major global Diagnostics organisations, including Roche Professional Diagnostics, which supplies diagnostic systems and workflow solutions for laboratories, hospitals and doctors’ offices. The site is also a global centre for developing molecular diagnostic reagents and test systems and business headquarters for the EMEA/LATAM region, comprising Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

 

The Burgdorf site (Roche Diabetes Care AG) is a pioneer in developing blood glucose monitoring devices and one of the world’s leading suppliers of comprehensive diabetes management systems and services.

 

At the Schlieren site (Roche Glycart AG), near Zurich, virtually all the employees are research scientists working in the fields of molecular biology, cell and protein engineering, process biochemistry, cell biological assays, histology, preclinical in-vivo pharmacology and tumour immunology.

 

The Reinach site (Pharma (Schweiz) AG) is responsible for marketing and sales, clinical research activities and regulatory affairs issues throughout Switzerland.

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Make your mark. Improve lives.

As a research-based company, Roche needs people with the curiosity and courage to pursue unconventional ideas. We offer our employees an attractive working environment with outstanding development opportunities and benefits — as the following facts and figures attest:

 

  • Expansion: Over the last three years Roche has created more jobs in Switzerland than any other company. Capital projects currently underway at Roche sites in Switzerland represent a total investment greatly exceeding 1 billion Swiss francs.

  • Diversity: People from over 80 nations work for Roche in Switzerland; 40% of them are women, and 53% have a degree from a university or other institution of higher learning.

  • Investing in young people: Roche operates apprenticeship programmes for a total of 350 apprentices in 18 trades and each year offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate internships.

  • Employee development and talent management: In 2010 employees at Roche Basel completed 150,000 hours of course work in 490 training and continuing education courses with a total enrolment of 16,000.

  • Benefits: Roche offers its employees working arrangements designed to help them balance career advancement with personal goals and family obligations. Sites have a wide range of specific plans and programmes in place to promote a healthy work–life balance, including flexible working hours and sports programmes and other leisure activities.

  • Recognition: Roche has had employee profit-sharing schemes for 40 years.

  • Become part of the Roche success story at  www.jobs.roche.ch

     

     

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