Payroll & T&a Project Manager (Flexible Location)

**Payroll & T&A Project Manager (flexible location)**:
**Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.**:
**This position reports to**:
Head of Global HR Services

**Your responsibilities**:

- Perform in-depth analysis of current Payroll & T&A landscape and design the future landscape in a changing IS environment
- Create a roadmap and prepare possible scenarios for harmonization and simplification, and delivery model of payroll and T&A
- Establish and gain approval of a business case defining the value proposition of the project and considering different scenarios, commercial implications, risk management, and feasibility in a global and dynamic context
- Develop a project charter and a project plan describing how the project will be executed for communication to project team members, key stakeholders, approval and as the basis for execution
- Analyze procurement needs for the project and reflect these needs in the project plan and cost planning
- Lead the project team allocated to the project, defining main guidelines, allocating project tasks, and motivating and monitoring internal and/or external resources to accomplish all tasks and milestones
- Ensure project follows sound methodology and execution practices in accordance with standard ABB internal directives and procedures
- Ensure compliance to relevant cyber security regulations, standards, and contractual requirements
- Keep up to date and informed about any change in strategy and consult regarding any activities or other project(s) which have, or might have, a major impact on the project
- Effectively organize, monitor and control activities to ensure achievement of planned stage-gates and efficient utilization of available resources
- Monitor and control project cost and financials. Identify, contain, and reduces risk and ensure that all opportunities are captured and acted upon
- Serve as the key contact for project stakeholders and escalation point for project issues
- Establish plans to mitigate and manage current and future risks on the project and maximize associated opportunities developing during the execution of the project

**Your background**:

- 10+ years of work experience and knowledge in several fields of HR with good level of understanding of Global Payroll and Time & Attendance processes.
- Knowledge regarding Workday, SAP HR, T&A systems, payroll systems / providers, and integrations.
- Graduate/post-graduate degree in Business Management, HR, Computer Science, or related discipline.
- Proven project management by having successfully led programs of global scope with significant aspects of complex IT implementation, organizational transformation (change management) and ambitious value creation targets.
- Strong communication and execution skills to influence HR and business leaders towards common solutions (standardization) while maintaining the outside-in approach (customer-orientation). Ability to structure and convey complex messages and insights into meaningful recommendations and actions.
- Leadership with vision and ambition, passion for quality and speed, creativity and readiness for innovation to break new ground, can-do attitude, problem solver, high level of resilience.
- Collaborative working style appreciating the inclusion of geographies, different organizational levels, functions and cultures. Developing and coaching others.
- Professional proficiency in English, MS Office, digital collaboration tools/platforms.

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