Senior Payroll Analyst

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

About AbbVie

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com.

Our culture

Being one of the leaders in biopharma space comes with a huge deal of responsibility towards our patients and employees, Our Principles are embedded in our company culture that has been recognized by our employees through Great Places to Work certification, awarded to AbbVie in 2022.

Your role:

This Senior Payroll Analyst is responsible for processing and correcting payroll transactions for specific countries as assigned (generally larger, more complex countries), supporting pre-payroll activities, year-end payroll activities, reviewing and verifying files generated internally or by global payroll vendors (GPV), enforcing key payroll deadlines, as well as answering employee/manager queries.

Your tasks:

• Partnering with internal stakeholders and with Global Payroll Vendor (GPV) to process payroll and resolve payroll transactions that are in error


• Review and validate payroll files (eg. Payroll Reconciliation File, Bank File) and reports generated internally or by the GPV and approve for processing.


• Support pre-payroll activities (eg. finalize data entry, review master data file quality, and confirm time/payroll data completeness).


• Assist in resolving input errors (and other errors) from the third party vendors or internal AbbVie stakeholders.


• Assist in resolving Bank Errors (with AbbVie Treasury’s support).


• Support Year-End Payroll processing activities (eg. develop and provide payroll calendar, review year-end tax reports and notify AbbVie employees of availability of tax information).


• Respond to internal AbbVie stakeholders (Tax, Treasury, Finance and BHR) with regard to questions or issues they have raised around payroll data and/or payroll reports.


• Answer employee/manager queries or assist GPV with other queries it cannot resolve.


• Lead smaller global, regional and country specific projects and participate on global project teams.


• Some travel may be required



 
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What we offer: 

• Chance to become a part of dynamically growing biopharmaceutical company.


• Friendly organizational culture.


• Hybrid working model.


• Training opportunities and professional development.


• Flexible working hours and additional days off (Abbvie Days)


• Charity initiatives incl. Week of possibilities - days of employee volunteering


• Extensive benefits package (Multisport, private medical care and life insurance)


• Commuting allowance


• Attractive annual bonus


• Employee referral program


• Employee Stock Purchase Program


• Company Social Benefits Fund (co-funding of cultural, educational and leisure activities, rehabilitation classes or psychological consultations for employees and their family).


• Wellness initiatives – global events promoting work-life balance, physical and mental well-being.



 
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Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Finance / Accounting.


• 5-7 years of payroll operational experience. Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) or equivalent.


• Working knowledge of Workday and experience integrating with 3rd party applications.


• Strong customer orientation and a work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations.


• Strong written and oral communication skills, in English


• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment, as well as to get results through collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external.


• Good analytical and process diagnostic skills and the ability to get into the details, while also seeing and understanding the big picture. Strong spreadsheet and database skills. Continuous improvement orientation.


• Strong project management skills. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and requests.



 
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AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.