18 Month Fixed Term Contract - HR Senior Coordinator - Payroll

At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work.  The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday.  However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement.

Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home for a maximum of 50% of the working days in any one month, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

Role:
The role manages the UK Payroll cycle with the support and coordination of the outsourced payroll provider. You will be supporting the analysis, development and delivery of the compensation programme for Honda Motor Europe (HME) in multiple countries across the Region. This role will act as the specialist support for all payroll matters working with the outsourced supplier, as well as support to the wider HR team. As a member of the team, you will be involved in general HR activity and projects as required, taking an active role in delivering and developing an exceptional HR service to the business.

Main Responsibilities: 
UK Payroll

• Ensure payroll data and documents are provided in a timely manner to the outsourced payroll provider.
• Liaise with outsourced payroll to provide information and explanation.
• Responsible to check and distribute payroll reports to Finance or other stakeholders.
• Coordinate the preparation of the UK Gender Pay Gap report.

Regional compensation support

• Support the annual salary and benefit survey process. 
• Support pay benchmarking for European countries.
• Create and maintain compensation metrics/analytics.
• Support annual appraisal cycle and pay review operations.
• Collect salary review annual budget data from European markets.
• Creation of report and analysis of data using HR database and provide insights output in excel / power point presentations.
• Conduct job evaluations as required.

Qualifications, skills and experience:
Required

• Understanding of payroll process principles and operation in general.
• Strong numerical, analytical and modelling skills, attention to detail and experience of working with complex data.
• Excellent MS Office skills (especially Excel – Functions including XLOOKUP, pivot tables, charts). 
• Ability to interact well with people at all levels within the organisation with excellent communication skills (Written and spoken).
• Strong team player with an enthusiastic, Can-Do approach.
• Strong customer focus and business awareness.
• Experience using SAP - Success Factors for day to day operational and compensation processes.

Desirable

• Worked in HR business environments and understands a HR generalist background.
• Good understanding of Compensations & Benefits activities.
• Experience of job evaluations with structured methods (e.g. Korn Ferry, Mercer). 

Honda is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in the workplace for all employees, temporary workers, contractors, applicants and visitors. Honda also encourages respect for the individual differences and talents of others while making full use of one's own abilities, based on Honda's philosophy of respect for the individual.

At Honda, we value and celebrate diversity and are committed to being a fair, non-discriminatory company that promotes and welcomes the uniqueness and differences of people around the world. We recognise that a diverse workforce allows for different ideas and perspectives, and we encourage everyone to share them. We strive to foster a culture of belonging that is consistent with Honda's core values and lived out in the way we work and respect each other. For us at Honda, diversifying our workforce means increasing its overall strength by providing people with equal opportunities - regardless of personal characteristics or previous careers.

This commitment flows directly from the Honda philosophy and the belief that we are all working towards a common goal. Honda recruits, hires, trains and promotes the most qualified/experienced individuals at all levels without regard to race, origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.