Payroll Transformation Business Analyst

At Fresenius Medical Care, we are the global leader in kidney care, committed to improving the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease. Our mission is to deliver high-quality, innovative products, services, and care across the entire healthcare journey. Guided by our vision—“Creating a future worth living. For patients. Worldwide. Every day.”—we work with purpose and compassion, supported by a global team of over 125,000 employees.   Our values guide how we work: We Care for our patients, each other, and our communities

We Connect across teams and borders to deliver excellence together

We Commit to doing things the right way— growing with purpose and leading kidney care with integrity and innovation

The Payroll Transformation Business Analyst will assist in the execution of the global strategy for payroll processing from input validation to employee/tax disbursement based on the guidance from their manager. The role will work closely with their HR business colleagues to drive design discussions and support implementation. The role will partner with the local teams to execute the payroll strategy with primary focus being on requirements gathering, testing, communication, and change management.

Your Responsibilities: Execute and support the design of payroll governance, process and system strategy with the alignment to standardizing, streamlining and automating processes and standards to drive business efficiencies

Capture, document and migrate local knowledge, policies and processes into HR Shared Services organization

Collaborate with system vendors, local country teams, and payroll shared service operation to implement payroll solution, which will align with global design while meeting localized business requirements and operational needs

Be foremost expert on the payroll system’s functionality to be able to address any business requests for enhancements or changes to meet a continual changing environment

Collaborate with IT to translate business requirements into technical solutions/plans and prioritize future enhancements

Partner across the organization on deployment, and maintenance of the selected payroll solutions throughout the company’s global footprint

Prepare and execute design sessions to optimize the process and system configuration to streamline the end-user experience

Gather, propose and support new requests and/or system enhancements to drive continuous improvement

Design, maintain and report on SLAs and performance KPI dashboard

Develop and Maintain site sharing training, job aids, system updates, policies, etc.

Communicate updates, systems and business changes to stakeholders as needed

Represent Payroll in Shared Services initiatives

Support Operational teams in validation of impact of policy changes on operational procedures

Collaborate with teams on developing, implementing and reviewing surveys and audit controls

Other tasks as assigned by the manager  

Your Profile: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent business experience preferred

6+ years’ experience with payroll processes and/or transformation

Experience with executing system implementations and projects

Possesses strong analytical skills to critically evaluate information

Must be a team player but also able to work independently.

Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across functions to drive teams towards success-based results

Must be focused, goal driven, accountable, and exhibit significant attention to detail

Payroll knowledge in multiple countries

Project management or transformation expertise

Microsoft tools

Multiple payroll vendor systems

HCM systems, preferably Workday

Preferably ticketing systems, such as ServiceNow

Fluent English

Preferred additional European language

Flexibility in working hours to cover global timezones

Willingness to travel for on-site workshops

Our Offer for you:

There is a lot you can discover at Fresenius Medical Care, regardless in which field you are an expert and how much experience you have - all dedicated to your professional journey. Whether in front of or behind the scenes - you are helping to make ever better medicine available to more and more people around the world

Individual opportunities for self-determined career planning and professional development

A corporate culture in which there is enough room for innovative thinking - to find the best solution together, not the quickest one

A large number of committed people with a wide range of skills, talents and experience

The benefits of a successful global corporation with the collegial culture of a medium-sized company