Payroll Cluster Manager

**Come create the technology that helps the world act together**

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

**The team you’ll be part of**

Nokia’s People organization is responsible for leading a business-driven people strategy and offering people and workplace services to all Nokia employees. We partner closely with the business to provide a motivated and engaged workforce that is fit for the future.

The Payroll Cluster Manager will be responsible for managing and supporting payroll function inside Payroll Team in APJ. Main responsibility is to deliver accurate and timely contractual payroll & related services for work performed; ensuring benefits, social security and taxes are correctly paid/deducted and reported in compliance and adherence to the Nokia and/or relevant country obligations.

**What you will learn and contribute to**

As a Payroll Cluster Manager, you will:

- Foster a strong team environment and a strong service culture nimbly in order to transform our employee experience with compliance, security and accurate reporting
- Manage APJ cluster Payroll operations end-to-end with full responsibility and accountability.
- Provides professional expertise to carry out assignments/projects to specify systems and/or implement, deliver/maintain and improve payroll services, as directed.
- Guide, monitor and motivate team member to achieve business objectives
- Work with payroll vendors to build strategic partnership to deliver best-in-class payroll related services to end-users
- Manage and oversee payroll operations of APJ cluster countries’ as per country specifics.
- Lead and champion change management activities, technology or process, to get the best value for the business. Support the portfolio of all payroll related projects in APJ countries, e.g. new vendor transitions, transformation projects, integration projects, excellence initiatives etc.
- Transform the payroll operations to become more automated, digital and scalable to enhance employee experience while collaborating closely with Region Head of Payroll and other stakeholders to ensure needed changes are supported by Payroll.
- Proactively seek for improvement in payroll quality, compliance and efficiency.
- Lead internal/external audits in APJ countries.
- Payroll approval based on standardized process (including not limited to SOX requirement) and ensure accurate and on-time delivery.
- Provide expertise to find payroll solution in line with company policies & processes and local legislation.
- Cascade down global policies/processes and initiates changes in local payroll processes
- Guide team in objective setting; give constructive feedback to team members in 1-in-90 discussion and annual performance review to enhance team engagement.
- Act as a team player for the Payroll team
- Manage corporate people management processes
- Drive team integration activities for the team
- Professional monitoring of the payroll specialist’s tasks
- Internal escalation point for Payroll Specialists performance
- Manage central payroll specialist pool for the respective team, in cooperation with other Team Leader(s) and Payroll Managers
- Provide professional advice in terms of centralized payroll administration
- Drive centralization and standardization of payroll processes across countries
- Collaborate with Payroll Managers to ensure accurate and secure payroll delivery
- Tracks down compliancy issues and collaborates with other HR colleagues and employees
- Provides expertise for region/cluster/country specific payroll questions
- Provides payroll expertise for HR projects
- Besides the above-mentioned team leader tasks the role will have Payroll Manager responsibilities, such as:

- Tracks down compliancy issues and collaborates with other HR colleagues and employees
- Provide expertise for payroll interface questions on payroll vendor interface side
- Proactively seeks for improvement on payroll quality, compliance and efficiency
- Project support for payroll and time management related projects
- Internal escalation point for payroll related queries
- Monitor vendor’s performance through KPI’s and SLA follow-up
- Oversee the preparation and filing of required reports and/or payments to government agencies, employees, and other organizations.
- Continuously reskilling and upskilling payroll team to service excellence, quality, project management as well as enabling technologies while creating a digital and agile workforce.

**Your skills and experience**

You have:

- 5+ years in Payroll / HR
- Multiple years of program / project management