Payroll Specialist with FRENCH

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Education & Experience:
Degree or Equivalent: Bachelor's Degree;
Major Area of Concentration: IT / Business / Accounting.

Work Experience:
Payroll Specialist 3-5 years.

People Management:
Team oriented/Team Player;
Customer Service Skills, Client focus;
Interpersonal and Communication Skills, written, listening and verbal, in country of servicing and English.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

Language Skills:
Fluent in French and English language ( min B2 for both ).

Technical skills:
Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, ....)

Skills and Abilities:
Payroll industry, process, and France-specific knowledge and expertise;
Ability to use ADP systems and processes accurately and consistently;
SAP, HR/Payroll expertise;
Troubleshooting/problem resolution skills;
Ability to organize, prioritize and multitask;
Ability to work under pressure while maintaining deadlines;
Analytical ability;
Attention to detail;
Possesses a continuous improvement mind-set and is receptive to change;
Must be able to demonstrate competencies as detailed in the Leadership Expectations for Individual Contributors;
Can do attitude, developed team work approach.

Responsibilities:
Produce timely and accurate payroll- includes all interface and payroll processing activities;
Ensure quality controls in the payroll process and update documentation, includes reconciliation of results and audit checks;
Extract monthly and annual reports (YE activities) and act as a backup for SME;
Act as day-to-day liaison with client designated contacts for payroll-related processing;
Respond to client inquiries and take appropriate action ensuring timely review and resolution of issues;
Work effectively across ADP France to resolve client issues;
Maintain client payroll procedure manuals and business process documents;
Highlight and escalate relevant matters that may impact the running of client payrolls;
Process relevant tax forms for employees;
Conduct timely and accurate processing of cyclical events including month-end, qrtr-end, and year-end activities;
Constantly and actively contribute to the Standardization and Improvement process;
Create or adapt existing training material depending on new instructions received from stake holders/ functional leaders, in cooperation with the SME when the case;
Act as a Trainer/ Mentor/Buddy to the new comers, ensuring process knowledge is well absorbed, job shadowing;
Work closely with the Team Leader and contribute to creation of refresher training sessions for the team whenever the need is detected/ at supervisor's request or other ADP functions' suggestion;
Uses expertise to enhance activities that drive positive change;
Effectively manages the knowledge and tools within the team in order to impact delivery capabilities;
Readily takes advantage of opportunities to suggest or promote new ideas;
Recognises the ups and downs of project delivery and has the strength of character to provide support through difficult periods.;
Works close with the SME to optimize the knowledge level;
Extract monthly and annual reports (YE activities) and act as a backup for SME

Job Summary:
The role of the Payroll Specialist is to produce the payroll for clients, acting as their liaison for payroll-related processing. In addition, this role will participate in system testing as needed, provide consultation to clients and others, and as needed.