Senior Payroll and HR Project Specialist (Japanese Speaker) - Urgently Hiring!

About this Position

As a Senior Payroll and HR Project Specialist, your primary mission will be to streamline and enhance our payroll processes, ensuring compliance and efficiency at every step. This role addresses critical operational challenges by acting as a Subject Matter Expert in time and payroll management, particularly concerning local taxation and legislation. Your expertise is essential for successful project implementations that meet our service commitments and align with our organizational goals. The position presents unique opportunities to not only influence strategic HR initiatives but also to drive meaningful process improvements that enhance overall employee satisfaction. If you are passionate about optimizing payroll systems while making a tangible difference within a dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you!

What you´ll do

• Execute HR and Payroll processes effectively using standardized templates to meet service commitments and SLAs
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert for Time and Payroll including Japan’s taxations, legislative and statutory pay impacting topics during project implementations
• Collaborate with global implementation teams, vendors, and local HR to ensure comprehensive capture of solution requirements and process definitions
• High involvement in the project roll-out from initiation phase until implementation that includes gathering of business requirements, process documentation, and testing
• Support the payroll team in managing end-to-end payroll processes, including system execution, data maintenance, reconciliation and validation, and compliance with government reporting

What makes you a good fit

Some perks of joining Henkel

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.