Egon Zehnder is one of the world’s foremost leadership and talent consultancies. Our firm provides senior-level executive search, board search, advisory, CEO succession, family business advisory, as well as leadership assessment and development to the world’s most respected organizations. With more than 500 consultants in 63 offices and 37 countries, we work closely with public and private corporations, family-owned enterprises, and nonprofit and government agencies to help them define great leadership in the face of changing economic conditions, emerging opportunities, and evolving business goals.
As a Human Resources Manager Swiss amp; Global, you will have the opportunity to manage global and local Swiss HR initiatives, processes, and procedures with the aim of improving organizational performance. You will collaborate with the local leadership team to oversee employee relations, compensation and benefits, talent processes, performance management, and employee engagement. This role offers a valuable opportunity for an experienced HR professional to shape and influence the future of the Human Resources function at the Howden Shared Service Centre, driving development, engagement, and motivation, and offers the opportunity to grow into a Human Resources Business Partner function.
Role amp; responsibility
HR Operations
- Support the Swiss employees (50) based in Zurich and Geneva on all their HR and payroll-relevant matters throughout their employee lifecycle
- Maintain accurately and timely all employee-relevant data in Workday
- Coordinate the monthly payroll with the external payroll Partner
- Set up new employees in the time- and holiday tracking tool, assist in trainings, arrange corrections, run compliance checks
- Arrange different kinds of employment documents, such as employment agreements, confirmations, reference letters, etc.
- Coordinate insurance and pension details with our insurance broker register/deregister employees, check invoices, etc.
- Manage registrations with social charge authority: new/leaving employees, apply for family allowance, maternity leave, EO benefit, etc.
- Arrange insurance registration of employees in case of long-term sick leave or accident
- Check employee income tax invoices and any other employee relevant invoice for finance and align on payroll booking journal and bonus accruals
- Support the Office Leader in the recruitment of Executive Assistants: arrange job descriptions, find/brief the agency, select candidates, run first interviews
HR Business Partner function
- Lead/coordinate compensation discussions with the Swiss Leadership team
- Create, improve, and/or simplify processes, standards, and policies: e.g., contracts, benefits, HR operations, training needs, etc.
- Collaborate with Country and office leaders on projects on an ad-hoc basis
- Work in collaboration with the global HR team to create reporting that will be useful for local leaders, participate in projects, suggests improvements
- If capacity allows, support other geographies as a regional HR business partner
Requirements
- Relevant studies and proven operational experience (ideally 7-10 years) in HR
- Experience in HR and Payroll processes of complex markets (Germany, France) is a key requirement, experience with the Swiss HR and Payroll processes would be an advantage
- Ability to work independently, as well as collaborates strongly with the team (mainly remotely, as the team is located in Switzerland)
- Ability to balance operational HR tasks and HR Business Partnering
- Reliable, open-minded, and communicative
- Structured, and result-oriented work style
- Eager to learn and grow
- Fluent in English, advantage if fluent in German
Benefits
Be part of an international, highly professional, dynamic, and close-knit team! We offer interesting opportunities for development and training. At our Budapest office, we regularly have teambuilding events, and office lunch parties and we provide free language classes in English, German, and Hungarian. We are happy to see you in the office, but working from home is also an option for our employees.
Location
Budapest - 1068 Dózsa György út 84/b.