THE BUSINESS

　　Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 500 technology company that delivers industry-specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable.

　　Honeywell Corporate is the central hub of Honeywell International Inc., a global leader in inventing and commercializing technologies that address critical challenges in energy, safety, security, air travel, productivity, and global urbanization. As the backbone of the organization, Honeywell Corporate provides strategic direction, operational excellence, and support to various business units and functions across the company. With a commitment to introducing state-of-the-art technology solutions, Honeywell Corporate drives efficiency, productivity, sustainability, and safety in high-growth industries. By enabling a safer, more comfortable, and more productive world, Honeywell Corporate enhances the quality of life for people around the globe.

　　THE POSITION

　　The role is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing a best-in-class payroll and time & attendance team seeking to deliver superior services for Honeywell across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada. This role’s key objectives include being an expert in the field of payroll (insourced and outsourced), time and attendance, vendor management, reporting and automation. Responsible for leading the strategic vision and delivery execution of payroll timelines and deliverables, addressing internal and external business changes, market challenges and/or regulator issues. The role will drive and lead payroll automation and digitization in processes including projects for efficiency and improved processing and net pay accuracy. Additionally, the role is responsible for advanced reporting to provide visibility to spend, risk areas, severance, and other payments.

　　Strategic design and successful implementations of time and attendance systems and other HRS activities/projects through the team with a consistent delivery process. This role will lead multifunctional teams, responsible for delivering comprehensive solutions for end users. The role will define and implement service strategies to optimize the customer experience while delivering on operational efficiency. This position is part of the HR Services leadership team and will report to the VP HR Services Operations – Global Payroll.

　　The role needs to flex between strategic vision, payroll compliance, operational oversight and project management and implementation. Frequent interactions with senior leaders, HR Business Partners, and members of the HR Service centers are expected. The leader will partner with the regional teams to identify opportunities to leverage best practices to manage and facilitate the North American payroll delivery model to drive business results. Working with business and HR leaders, responsible to apply creativity and problem-solving techniques to implement critical payroll strategies and processes.

　　EXPECTED OUTCOMES

　　On-time, accurate payroll delivery and employee payments

　　Timely offboarding and separations

　　Seamless integration with time and attendance systems

　　Meet/exceed success metrics and key process indicators

　　Ensure audit compliance

　　Drive expense savings

　　Positive employee / manager experience with all services

　　Maintain a highly motivated and engaged team

　　Balanced team member workload with minimized overtime

　　Partnership and collaboration across HRS, HR and SBGs

　　Cross trained employees for backup/vacation coverage

　　Team unity across work locations

　　Employee development including skills growth and succession plans

　　KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

　　Oversight and responsibility for regional time, attendance and payroll, including compliance to legal and regulatory requirements (United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada).

　　Ensures all payroll and legislative deadlines are met across the payroll portfolio managing exceptions as necessary

　　Keeps up to date with statutory, legislative, revenue impacts on the payroll environment and communicate to the team

　　Escalates unresolved issues to Global Payroll Leader as appropriate

　　Leads all aspects of people management within the team

　　Creating a work environment for employee engagement

　　Effective management of the North American payroll teams within span and layer constraints

　　Coordinate resources for providing functional and technical Payroll expertise to the business at all levels, including production support, data analysis, customer issue resolution and troubleshooting

　　Focuses on fostering an environment where employees are engaged to do their work ; Prioritizes workload and aligns resources

　　Process Optimization

　　Optimization of payroll processes to reduce cycle time (eg: 3 calcs to 2 calcs)

　　Adherence to business commitments all projects (eg: OOC schedule reductions, M&A, NDA)

　　Interface with up/down stream systems and tools for efficient processes

　　Drive permanent fixes to issues (lessons learned, no repetitive failures)

　　Improve HR processes and support functional excellence for the global payroll team

　　Strategy & technology

　　Assess the current support model and development of strategy to ensure seamless support of Payroll solutions

　　Mobilize technical resources to ensure a positive bottom-line impact

　　Manage the overall coordination of the payroll platform migrations and implementations in the region ensuring quality and controls are in place

　　Lead integration between different systems and the Payroll application across business groups in the region

　　Manage M&A activity and ensure that Payroll applications are delivered and incorporated into local business processes

　　Responsible for championing technical governance, management of payroll application project portfolio, resources, metrics, and reporting

　　Identifies, prioritizes and implements process improvements across the entities served (externally) and in metrics and controls procedures (internally)

　　Provides functional expertise and leads transition projects during new acquisitions and activities related to increasing market share

　　Leads process improvement projects to enable productivity and customer satisfaction gains

　　Manage key stakeholders:

　　Manage the interaction with other internal regional and global service delivery groups

　　Acts as point of escalation for the team and customers ensuring effective handling and resolution of issues

　　Manages relationships with assigned key HR and Finance leaders, assuring transition plans are in line with business priorities

　　Partners with Business Units to implement digital business solutions

　　Maintain and report service levels:

　　Tracks performance and measure operations to ensure that payroll delivers on requirements

　　Assesses and provides feedback regarding HR field leadership satisfaction with service level

　　Delivers monthly operations reports and reports out to Human Resources leadership as requested.

　　BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

　　Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, HR or similar discipline

　　5+ years of experience with payroll, time or equivalent experience

　　10+ years of experience working in a HR Services or Finance role

　　Experience leading in a large organization

　　Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office and other HR systems or technologies (SAP and Peoplesoft experience a plus)

　　Bias towards process improvement and streamlining of data workflow

　　Knowledge of Information Protection and Data Privacy legislation for the region

　　People management skills including management of remote and virtual teams

　　Excellent communication skills at all levels in organization

　　PREFERRED

　　Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or similar discipline

　　Knowledge of Federal, State, and Local payroll policies and procedures, or similar relevant experience

　　Certification such as Certified Payroll Professional (CPP)

　　Extensive human resources experience

　　Critical Behaviors – Beyond the Honeywell 8:

　　Personal ownership and accountability

　　Motivational optimism

　　Meetings with purpose, agenda and defined outcomes/actions including only the necessary participants

　　Proactive problem solving

　　Effective bi-directional communication flow

　　Listening for need (people & business)

　　Respect for the individual

　　Personal growth and skills development

　　Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.