HR Operations Team Lead Payroll, Compensation & Benefits (80-100%)

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Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will lead a team of experienced HR Operations Specialists in the fields of Payroll, Compensation, Benefits (including Social Security), and Time & Attendance. In these HR fields, you are responsible to ensure a smooth HR service delivery for ABB Switzerland and the Group's Headquarters. You will take full accountability for delivering daily end-to-end operations, ensuring efficient, high-quality services, and enhancing the overall customer experience for both customers and the Business. You will be responsible for meeting globally set standards for HR Operations while ensuring strict adherence to legal and regulatory requirements in all processes across Switzerland. As Team Lead, you will drive operational excellence across all activities and processes in your scope, while fostering collaboration with key HR partners and stakeholders. You will manage your team in ensuring accurate and compliant payroll and process execution, while also advancing process improvements and supporting strategic initiatives.

The work model for the role is hybrid. #LI-Hybrid

This role is contributing to the HR Services department in Baden, Switzerland.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Managing payroll for approximately 4'000 ABB employees, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency while supervising a team of experienced HR specialists

• Overseeing daily operations, including data maintenance, monthly payroll runs, compensation andbenefits administration, time and absence management

• Taking ownership of delivering annual processes around bonuses, salary revisions, and fringe benefits, as well as time and absence

• Ensuring compliance with laws and regulations such as tax, social security, and insurance regulations, while driving risk and control measures, including SOX requirements and audit readiness

• Being in charge of and contributing to projects and process improvements of varying size and complexity

• Acting as a partner in M&A activities by providing expert guidance and service delivery in regards to payroll, compensation, benefits, and time & absence

• Collaborating with internal HR teams and stakeholders as well as external parties (such as service providers or authorities)

Qualifications for the role

• Solid educational background in commercial/business, HR, or a related field, complemented by an HR and/or social security certification

• 2+ years of experience in a similar role with a complex, international organization, including leadership responsibilities

• Expertise in SAP HCM and MS Office, Workday experience is a plus * In-depth knowledge of Swiss laws and regulations, including source tax, social security, and employee insurances

• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in numbers, data reporting, payroll tools, and process improvement/project 1 | HR Operations Team Lead for Payroll, Compensation & Benefits (80-100%) management

• A structured and solution-oriented mindset, with the ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment

• Fluency in German and English is required, French and/or Italian is a plus

More about us

In ABB HR our mission is to help ABB stand out when it comes to our people - from leadership, performance and talent management to rewards and career growth. Our goal is to be an employer of choice and deliver excellent experiences throughout the employee lifecycle.

The recruitment process is led by Julia Farin, Talent Partner, ABB Switzerland Ltd.

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