Manager - Global Payroll Solutions & Assurance | Kuala Lumpur

About BHP 

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success

About the Role

Reporting into the Head of GBS HR Payroll, you will be a key part of the global payroll team, a team of forward thinking and engaging professionals that love to work in a high-paced environment. This role leads a team of three direct reports, including two regional payroll solution and assurance managers and the global time & attendance manager, ensuring alignment and execution of payroll solutions and assurance activities across BHP. As part of this role you will redefine, standardize, control and continually improve pay impacting processes globally.

You will be responsible for the following

• Lead, coordinate & support all change impacting payroll (including globally consistent solution design) across all Global Payroll teams.
• Actively promote, coordinate & support the business implementation of the multi-year Global Payroll strategy, under the leadership of the Head of GBS HR Payroll.
• Define, maintain and continually evolve the global payroll process design and standards.
• Drive the continued modernisation of Global Payroll within BHP based on industry best practice, new technologies and methodologies.
• Drive operational excellence, productivity, automation, and simplification across the Global Payroll function.
• Proactive engagement with multiple senior stakeholders & 3rd party providers.
• Drive the increased use of data and analytics to drive organisational improvement, effectiveness and to promote sharing of best practices across Global Payroll.
• Apply an understanding of the business context, BHP operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance.
• Develop & maintain 1st line of defence payroll assurance testing plans to continually identify and assess risks, making data driven decisions, using BHP's risk management framework to build a risk aware culture to ensure safe and compliant performance outcomes in an increasingly complex statutory and regulatory landscape.
• Implementing controls to ensure the ongoing country adherence to BHP’s global payroll process design and standards, across all country payroll teams globally.

About You

• Singnificant expereince in leading large-scale payroll with detailed operational & regulatory knowledge.
• Experience of leading a large-scale payroll with detailed operational & regulatory experience and implementing Global Payroll transformation projects and large-scale payroll projects (e.g. payroll outsourcing, implementation of local regulatory changes).
• SAP payroll experience.
• Experience of identifying operational risk and implementing controls to mitigate such risk within payroll.
• Payroll vendor management experience.
• Experience of empowering, coaching, and mentoring colleagues to ensure the team’s objectives can be achieved.
• Sound judgmental skills to identify and resolve challenges and issues that protect and enhance BHP’s values, reputation, and commercial interests.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.

About Our Process 

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks. 

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal. 

Supporting a Diverse Workforce 

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.  

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.