.**Why join Stryker?**:Our total rewards package offering includes bonuses, healthcare, insurance benefits, retirement programs, wellness programs, as well as service and performance awards - not to mention various social and recreational activities, all of which are location specific.**Know someone at Stryker?**:**Who we want**- ** Detail-oriented process improvers**. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes -finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.- ** Collaborative partners.** Individuals who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, data and insights to drive continuous improvement in functions and contribute to successfully delivery of business.- ** Analytical problem solvers.** People Individuals who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.**What you will do**- Accurately manage and process payroll for approximately 18k plus employee population in accordance with all laws and company policies. As myHR payroll support, administer, evaluate, troubleshoot and communicate payroll explanations as part of the HR Operations model.- Provide exceptional service to employees and managers needing assistance while ensuring appropriate communication with various stakeholders.- Oversee and backup team with the execution of the weekly and semi-monthly processing of payroll, which will include running defensive queries against employee data and organizational data that is used in the payroll process, reviewing time transactions, running payroll, auditing payroll results, correcting errors, and distributing payroll.- Responsible for researching laws and regulation regarding taxes and payroll withholding procedures.- Partner with HR in the payroll preparation, audit and distribution process to ensure accurate pay for inputs outside of regular payroll processing.- Independently research, analyze data, and resolve escalated or complex payroll inquiries and issues as assigned through the myHR portal.- Independently manage HR projects that impact the end-to-end payroll process as a functional team member, tester, documenter, and SME on payroll processes.- Act as liaison between myHR payroll and the International Assignments group to process all payroll related entries including monthly, quarterly and year end reporting and reconciliation.- Research and analyze payroll tax matters to determine and resolve payroll discrepancies by collecting information and analyzing liabilities through the calculating of employee income and employee/employer tax liabilities.- Work with Payroll Manager to contribute to the ongoing development and maintenance of payroll practices and procedures for accuracy, compliance and process improvements for effectiveness and efficiency
