Payroll Time & Benefits Senior Specialist

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The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

That’s what makes us Roche.

The Pay, Time & Benefits Team focuses on payroll, benefits and absence management support and provides customer service and advisory support to employees, People & Culture and business partners ensuring end-to-end process completion in line with customer focused principles to ensure the Roche People Practices work for the business.

Please note that this is a fixed-term role, ending on the 31st December 2026.

The Opportunity

As a Pay, Time & Benefits Senior Specialist, you support the Polaris Project in driving simplification and harmonization of payroll time & benefits (PTB) processes and practices in the EMEA region, participate in the transformation for to-be processes in the PTB area, support global/regional alignment on process definition, quality standards and data ownership and the application of global aligned approach of PTB operating model in the region. This is coupled with strong customer focus, communication skills, and solution orientation.

• Collaborate with PTB Process Leads and Polaris team to standardize, harmonize, and implement a new vendor solution.

• Guide and support in-country PTB colleagues through the Polaris implementation process.

• Perform payroll, time, and benefits administrative tasks such as data quality checks, payroll reconciliation, and consolidation of payroll inputs.

• Serve as a point of contact for payroll vendors and handle payroll, time, and benefits inquiries, interpreting People & Culture policies as needed.

• Manage and reconcile mass upload files, ensuring accurate and timely processing, and support inquiry resolution within service level agreements.

• Proactively identify and troubleshoot issues, performing analysis and controls for payroll processes, and considering ICFR controls in the accounting scope.

• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives, update documentation, and lead or support project initiatives as required.

Who you are:

In this role, you will work within the Payroll Time & Benefits team focusing on our customers needs and collaborating with teams across various functions and levels within the organization.

• Over 5 years of experience in Payroll services with end-to-end process experience in a shared service center supporting multiple countries.

• High learning agility with different country practices and ability to provide remote support in payroll, time, and benefits administration operations promptly.

• Excellent attention to detail and strong analytical abilities, with advanced Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, v-lookup).

• Proven ability to deliver in a matrix organization and work independently in a fast-paced, changing environment while handling multiple priorities.

• Strong English communication skills, both written and spoken, with additional language capabilities being a plus (e.g., French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Polish).

In exchange we provide you with

• Development opportunities: Roche 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 benefits & flexibility: competitive 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. We also ensure flexibility, to help you find your balance: home office is a common practice (2 office day/week on average, and we provide fully remote working conditions within Hungary). We create the opportunity for freedom in working, where your corporate and private life coexist in harmony.

• A global diverse community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we cooperate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. Our leadership is very focused on people, creating a strong, inclusive culture, so you always have the chance to share your opinion.

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Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

The Roche Services & Solutions as well as People Support Solutions organisations located in Budapest provide end-to-end business solutions for Finance, Procurement, IT, Communications, People & Culture (Human Resources) and beyond to our Roche colleagues across the EMEA region. Today Roche employs altogether around 2000 employees in Hungary.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.