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About the Role
The People Services team in Japan is responsible for delivering end-to-end HR operational excellence, ensuring employees receive accurate, timely, and compliant people services. This role bridges local Japanese requirements with global systems and processes, supporting the company's mission of chasing the miracles of science. The team values precision, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Manage and ensure quality assurance of monthly payroll processes from end to end.
- Execute and verify accurate bonus and severance payment calculations.
- Oversee year-end tax adjustment planning, implementation, and result verification.
- Supervise and verify social insurance premiums, tax deductions, and related processing.
- Ensure payroll data integrity and establish appropriate management systems.
- Gather information and analyze impact of Japanese labor law and tax law amendments.
- Explain Japan specific legal requirements to the global payroll vendor and support implementation.
- Support adaptation of Japan-specific payroll practices to global systems.
- Lead system and process updates in response to compliance requirement changes.
- Build effective collaboration frameworks with internal stakeholders.
- Collaborate with offshore People Service and Finance teams for accurate payroll and accounting processing.
- Build relationships and manage expectations with global and local payroll vendors.
- Respond to and resolve complex payroll-related inquiries from employees.
- Provide payroll-related reporting and analytical information to management.
- Continuously evaluate payroll operations and implement improvement proposals.
- Identify challenges in integrating global systems with Japan-specific requirements and develop solutions.
- Explore new technologies and methods for operational efficiency and cost reduction.
- Drive payroll-related project management and change management initiatives.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in Japanese payroll operations.
- Experience working in a global environment or collaborating with global stakeholders.
- Experience using payroll systems such as SAP or Workday is preferred.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities with diverse stakeholders.
- Complex problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking.
- Cross-cultural understanding and ability to work effectively in a matrix organization.
- Project management skills and change leadership capabilities.
- Ability to translate complex local requirements for global audiences.
- Deep knowledge and practical application experience of Japanese labor law, tax law, and social insurance systems.
- Strong understanding of payroll processes, controls, and compliance requirements.
- Proficiency with payroll systems and Microsoft Office applications.
- Native level Japanese language skills.
- Business level English language skills.
Skills
- Payroll Process Management
- Legal Compliance
- Stakeholder Management
- Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Change Management
- SAP
- Workday
- Japanese labor law
- Japanese tax law
- Social insurance systems
- Microsoft Office
Location
- Tokyo
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full time
Experience Level
- Manager candidate track
About the Company
- At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
- Pursue progress, discover extraordinary. Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.
- At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.
- Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!
Equal Opportunity
- Sanofi provides equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
- Sanofi provides equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.