Payroll Oversight Manager_Geneva_based

Your team

Corporate Functions includes the Pictet Group’s non-banking activities and employs more than 600 people. These functions are carried out by specialists with expertise across all business units, and include the Communications, Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, Information Security, Internal Audit, Legal, Organisation & Digital, Risk and Tax departments. 

The Human Resources department works to ensure that the organisation fosters an environment in which employees can thrive and are motivated to contribute to the company's success. 

Your role

Reporting to the Head of HR Service Delivery, you will be responsible for consolidating and overseeing payroll processes across the Pictet Group's global entities, ensuring compliance, accuracy and harmonisation of payroll data. In this role, you will be primarily responsible for the following tasks:

- enhancing the internal payroll control system by designing a control framework to improve Group HR’s oversight of all payroll activities globally, ensuring robust payroll and accounting processes and data integrity across all Pictet entities.
- working with the Head of HR Service Delivery to develop and implement standardised payroll wage-types and procedures across the Group to ensure consistency and compliance. Maintaining the mapping of wage-types to financial accounts.
- conducting, with the local payroll managers, monthly reconciliations between payroll data, accounting records and bank accounts to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
- ensuring the global payroll consolidation file is correct and accurate by performing high level plausibility checks.
- taking over specific activities from local payroll managers in order to mitigate the risk of fraud (e.g. instructing local payroll providers, pre-checking the bank payment file).
- ensuring regular and direct communication with local payroll managers to ensure alignment and address any issues promptly.
- acting as the primary point of contact for the Finance department for payroll data queries and issues in the Group's branches. Being the point of contact for payroll accounting issues during external/internal audits.

Your profile

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or equivalent.
- At least 10 years’ experience in payroll management and accounting practices, in a multinational environment.
- Excellent command of English and French.
- Strong analytical skills with regard to controls, checks and balances and numerical reporting. 
- Outstanding knowledge of Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, macros, complex formulas) and SAP HR/PY, in order to perform complex and systematic controls, generate multi-location/multi-dimensional reports.
- Attention to detail, systematic and rigorous approach to your work. 
- Strong problem solving skills and a proactive and analytical mindset.
- Ability to identify areas for process improvement and implement effective solutions.
- Show absolute discretion with regard to payroll and employee information to ensure confidentiality.
- Ability to manage stakeholders based across multiple locations and levels of seniority. Be sensitive to cultural differences with the ability to adapt quickly in order to accommodate them.  
- Must be resident in Switzerland.

Note

POM/ CB/SJ

We will not accept any CVs via agencies.

Diversity & Inclusion

Pictet is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse environment. We respect all individuals and seek their inclusion in the workplace.

Flexible and modern ways of working

As a responsible and supportive employer, we promote the well-being of our employees through a set of flexible working arrangements, ranging from a work-from-home policy for eligible functions to opportunities for annualised part-time leave and extended parental leave.