Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

adidas Shared Services delivers high quality services for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Retail Accounting, eCommerce Accounting and other Finance processes as well as HR Services for adidas companies located in Europe and Americas.

Within the framework of HR Services, we are providing excellent services and business competence regarding all HR Services related processes. As HR Services strives to combine competent and professional business partnering with a constant enhancement of services in an efficient and value-adding way, the role is vitally supporting this target by following key responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performing general and more complex administration of HR Services tools, programmes, and processes on a local and partially European and global level.
• Handle standard & complex inquiries & support through ticket service or via phone (if required) to employees, HR, Finance and third parties.
• Perform within the HR Services team all defined processes which are related to all employee life-cycle actions including mobility topics on a regional or global level.
• Create all kinds of HR documents along the employee life cycle such as employment contractual packages incl. mobility attachments, promotions, offboarding checklists etc. according to defined processes and standards.
• Perform and oversee bulk document creation and distribution processes
• Ensure digitalization of documents and ensure a proper and accurate handled archiving of documents according to defined standards and processes
• Support with standard payroll tasks according to defined processes, schedules, and service levels in accordance with regional and local guidelines.
• Support the continuous improvement of payroll processes and the use of systems.
• Support with communication with tax authorities, social security, and all other state institutions.
• Support Manager HR and Payroll UK and Ireland in Internal and External Audits

Key Relationships:

• GBS Operations and Process Excellence teams
• Employees
• External authorities, consultants, and suppliers
• HR Experts: Rewards, Mobility and Talent
• HR Partners
• Finance (Controlling, Taxes)
• Legal department

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Good level of affinity to and experience with Business computing solutions, ideally with SAP HR
• Very good analytical skills and detail-oriented work style
• Ability to work with high volume and transactional administration issues
• Team player mentality
• Strong customer focus and service minded
• Knowledge of UK labour law and time management regulations

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University Degree or higher
• 2-3 years of relevant work experience, ideally within an international matrix organization, especially into a UK HR team
• Excellent command of English
• Strong experience with Business computing solutions, ideally with SAP HR tools
• Strong knowledge of MS-Office applications
• Specialized skills in UK HR or Payroll area