Payroll Project Specialist (Fixed-term)
Employer · Roche
Payroll clerk
HR specialist
HR assistantTemporaryFull-timeBudapest
As a Payroll Project Specialist within our People Support Solutions (PSS) team, you will execute HR system data maintenance, project implementation tasks, data validation, and parallel payroll runs. This assignment offers a prime opportunity to build high-impact enterprise project experience with top-tier HR systems across a diverse international scope.
Tasks
- Actively drive assigned payroll project milestones, leading operational payroll cutover, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Parallel Payroll Runs (PPR), and operational hypercare across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Georgia.
- Execute accurate data administration across payroll, tax, social insurance, time, and benefits, managing mass upload files while monitoring Workday-to-vendor data flows and resolving integration defect logs.
- Provide expert customer advisory and inquiry resolution on pay, time, and benefits during project implementation and hypercare, partnering with managers to confirm employee time and absence data.
- Ensure strict regulatory compliance with country-specific laws and customer regulations, while driving continuous improvement and capturing process knowledge into Standard Work Instructions (SWIs) and Knowledge Articles (KAs).
- Provide guidance to first-level P&C support teams and collaborate with regional and global PSS peers and P&C Chapters to ensure consistent, end-to-end service delivery aligned with defined KPIs.
Conditions & benefits
Development opportunitiesRoche is rich in learning resources. We provide constant development opportunities, free language courses & training, the possibility of international assignments, internal position changes and the chance to shape your own career.Excellent benefitsCompetitive salary and cafeteria package, annual bonus, Private Medical Services, Employee Assistance Program, All You Can Move Sportpass, coaching / mentoring opportunity, buddy program, team buildings, holiday party.FlexibilityWe also support flexibility to help you find your balance. Home office is commonly available (typically 2 office days/week on average).
Requirements
- You are a customer-centric HR operations professional with strong analytical skills who thrives in an ambiguous, multicultural, and matrixed environment.
- 2 years of experience in payroll services and benefits administration (shared service center preferred), with exposure to payroll implementations, testing, or migrations.
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end payroll cycles, tax, social insurance, and time processes.
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP) and strong data reconciliation capabilities.
- Proven track record of managing project deadlines and competing priorities independently.
- Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.