Global Solution Owner Payroll, Time & Absence

Job Description

Entity: People & Culture Job Family Group: HR Group Job Summary: As the Global Solutions Owner for payroll, time& absence you will be responsible for the products, their architecture, vendor relationships and the compliance of these solutions globally. You will lead both the rollout of new solutions in support of our P&C strategy /bp’s business requirements/safeguarding the business interests and support the day-to-day integrity of the solutions team. For deployed solutions you will monitor the integrity, support systemic changes and retrofits impacting the team globally. You will own and run the technical architecture including the interfaces between the HR systems of records, the wider team solutions,other 3rd party solutions (like benefits, statutory interfaces) and the payroll solutions.This role is a global role and can be performed from a range of BP offices. The scope and scale of your responsibilities are categorised under five headers below:Operational responsibilities

• Responsible for compliance with statutory bodies and works with relevant internal teams (tax; policy; pensions etal.), independent auditors to drive and sustain bp’s compliance to the law of the land.
• Responsible for owning and driving governance together with the GEO (global experience owner) globally.
• Lead the operational integrity (functionality, performance, security, availability) of deployed solutions globally.
• Ensures compliance to relevant cyber security regulations, standards, and contractual requirements.
• Act as the key contact & critical issue point for P&C partners & vendors globally.
• Work with both internal & external auditors, providing vital steer whilst validating the operational controls and financial controls for your payroll, time&absence solutions.
• Analyses, prioritizes, and deploy product changes in tandem with business priorities.
• Drive MBR, QBR and ABR with vendor partners
• Serve as the subject matter authority for support on contractual, functional, and technical matters.
• Signoff Root Cause Analysis with the vendors and appropriate partners for production issues

Commercial responsibilities

• Supervise and control vendor costs, contractor costs and track financials in bp financial management tools like Ariba, fieldglass.
• Support P&C S+S partners and internal finance teams with financial forecasts as needed.
• Negotiate pricing with vendors, with support from procurement.

Strategic responsibilities

• Stay current with newer technologies in the market and standard processes in the industry.
• Monitor market trends and geopolitical trends. Engage vendors and de-risk business interests, thereby mitigating any risk to local payroll delivery.
• Stay informed about any change in bp’s strategy and consult regarding any activities or other project(s) which have, or might have, an impact on your solutions.
• Support the GEO to keep the services BCP plans up to date. Supervise the BCP testing completed by your solution vendors for relevance to bp’s interests.
• Responsible for continuous improvements & enhancements to your solutions, with the primary focus of cost effectiveness and compliance
• Define and update your product roadmap annually, ensuring that is relevant to the business and bp’s long-term plan.

Team responsibilities

• Ensure you and your team are aligned with bp’s safety and ethics rules and processes, follows procedures, and models bps Values & Behaviours always.
• Effectively organize, monitor, and control activities across production support and projects to ensure timely delivery and efficient utilization of available resources.
• Identify and cultivate talent, as part of your succession planning.

Project responsibilities

• Provide project management leadership for your solutions, globally. Thereby providing necessary governance, risk management and delivery assurance to relevant partners.
• Partner with country HR services, and P&C S+S teams to document complete and robust business requirements.
• Own and drive other P&C S+S projects that you are accountable for at bp by partnering with necessary teams and vendors.
• Support other ongoing projects by involvement at key points in the project life cycle for delivery of payroll and time&absence solutions.
• Change management – owning and influencing required changes during the life cycle of a project, by liaising with necessary partners.

Required skills:

• Significant work experience in HR leading Global Payroll and Time & absence.
• HR Consulting experience and payroll service delivery experience is an added advantage.
• Workday, SAP Payroll, T&A systems, payroll systems / providers, and APIs/connectors knowledge.
• Graduate/post-graduate degree in Business Management, HR, Computer Science, or related field.
• Demonstrated project management expertise by having successfully led programs of global scale with significant aspects of complex IT implementation (payroll solutions implementation), organizational transformation (change management) and bold value creationtargets.
• Strong communication and execution skills to influence HR and business leaders towards common solutions(standardization) while maintaining the outside-in approach (customer first)
• 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, and cultures.
• Vendor management experience – liaison with procurement team for review of existing contracts, service by suppliers and initiate organisational change (wherever necessary) to suit business needs,
• Contract management experience– ensuring service delivery by vendors is in line with the agreed scope. Regular review of delivery against the contract terms, hence, review of associated risks like liabilities, indemnities, licenses, and thus initiatingorganisational change as appropriate.

Why Join our teamAt bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care packageand many others. We support our people to learn and grow in a di