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This assignment offers a prime opportunity to build high-impact enterprise project experience with top-tier HR systems across a diverse international scope.\nPlease note that this is a fixed term position for a planned duration of 18 months.\nThe Opportunity:\nActively drive assigned payroll project milestones, leading operational payroll cutover, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Parallel Payroll Runs (PPR), and operational hypercare across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Georgia.\nExecute accurate data administration across payroll, tax, social insurance, time, and benefits, managing mass upload files (including legacy-to-target mapping) while monitoring Workday-to-vendor data flows and resolving integration defect logs.\nProvide expert customer advisory and inquiry resolution on pay, time, and benefits during project implementation and hypercare, partnering with managers to confirm employee time and absence data.\nEnsure strict regulatory compliance with country-specific laws and customer regulations, while driving continuous improvement and capturing process knowledge into Standard Work Instructions (SWIs) and Knowledge Articles (KAs).\nProvide guidance to first-level P&C support teams and collaborate with regional and global PSS peers and P&C Chapters to ensure consistent, end-to-end service delivery aligned with defined KPIs.\nWho You Are:\nYou are a customer-centric HR operations professional with strong analytical skills who thrives in an ambiguous, multicultural, and matrixed environment.\n2+ years of experience in payroll services and benefits administration (shared service center preferred), with exposure to payroll implementations, testing, or migrations.\nStrong knowledge of end-to-end payroll cycles, tax, social insurance, and time processes.\nAdvanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP) and strong data reconciliation capabilities.\nProven track record of managing project deadlines and competing priorities independently.\nExcellent written and spoken English communication skills.\nIn exchange we provide you with (Roche Services and Solutions, Budapest):\nDevelopment opportunities: Roche is rich in learning resources. We provide constant development opportunities, free language courses & training, the possibility of international assignments, internal position changes and the chance to shape your own career. \nExcellent benefits: Competitive salary and cafeteria package, annual bonus, Private Medical Services, Employee Assistance Program, All You Can Move Sportpass, coaching / mentoring opportunity, buddy program, team buildings, holiday party. \n Flexibility: We also support flexibility to help you find your balance. Home office is commonly available (typically 2 office days/week on average). \nA global inclusive community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we cooperate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. Our leadership is very focused on people, creating a strong, inclusive culture, so you always have the chance to share your opinion.\nData Privacy Notice for further information about how we handle your personal data related to the recruitment process: https://go.roche.com/dpn4candidates\nWhere pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Budapest. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.\nWho we are\nA healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. 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