Senior Payroll & Benefits Specialist

About the role

Edwards Lifesciences' Payroll team designs, guides and delivers experiences for its people, helping attract and retain talent so that teams can serve patients worldwide. This Senior Payroll & Benefits Specialist applies professional expertise and judgment to support payroll and benefits administrative activities and business outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Payroll processing: consolidate and validate complex payroll inputs (new hires, pay codes, shifts) and send them to the payroll vendor, validate gross-to-net outputs, ensure employees and liabilities are paid on time, complete deregistration and stay up to date with local legislation.
• Benefits administration: liaise with the third-party administrator on staff movements, transmit data to benefit vendors and process changes through payroll, manage complex benefits billing, reconciliation and GL bookings, resolve issues and coordinate plan changes with vendors.
• Employee assistance: help employees with payroll and benefits questions, including new-hire onboarding.
• Reporting and audit support: report to external and internal stakeholders according to local legislation and internal SOPs, and support internal and external audits, including reconciliation of payroll-related GL accounts to meet SOX requirements.
• SOPs and documentation: keep payroll and benefits SOPs updated, contribute to MyHR articles and communications, advise stakeholders and coach team members.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Accounting or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in payroll analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of Israel and EMEA payroll principles, practices, legislation and standards.
• Ability to identify improvements in payroll operations and recommend solutions, and to comply with government requirements and legislation.
• Knowledge of applicable compensation laws and regulations; benefits administration knowledge is an advantage.
• Local language requirement: Hebrew and English.

Required skills

• Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite and HRIS Workday systems.
• Certified Payroll Accountant certification is a nice-to-have.
• Strong communication, problem-solving and project management skills, ability to work in teams and manage competing priorities.