Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

Here are a few things you should know:
  • This site is mobile friendly. You do not need a log-in or password to access information.
  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
  • The site is refreshed daily to remove out-of-date content.
  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.

Job Information

Zimmer Biomet Senior Payroll Specialist ( Japanese Speaker) in Niigata, Japan

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered, and recognized.

Job Summary :

As part of a regional payroll team, this role is responsible for effective execution of payroll operations for assigned entities, supporting effective and accurate payroll time and data collection, review, calculations, and disbursements while ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of payroll reporting. This role partners with third parties to ensure optimal vendor performance, driving standardization and efficient processes, and collaboratively working with internal stakeholders in developing and maintaining trusted partnerships.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Apply specialist knowledge and skills required to support end-to-end payroll activities such as the collection, review, analysis, and balancing controls of full-cycle payroll related data sources for all levels of the organization, across all locations and across multiple time zones.

• Maintain T & A systems in accordance with company policy and statutory requirements.

• Support equity processing, cross-border payments and fringe benefits, secondments, and shadow payrolls in accordance with multi-jurisdiction tax regulations.

• Close collaboration with third party providers, local authorities related to reporting and filing of declarations, certifications, and ability to discern complicated instructions.

• Support Tier 3 payroll inquiries, navigate complex situations by recognizing problematic areas, and take ownership of communications through timely resolution.

• Continuous evaluation, improvement, and maintenance of existing work processes by implementing lean methodology to ensure most effective use of resources and drive operation excellence.

• Build and nurture strong working relationships with all levels across the organization, 3rd party providers, and others to resolve issues and drive process improvements.

• Assist with testing new payroll earnings, deductions, accruals, and other new programs in test environment.

• Establish and actively support proper governance of payroll data, time and attendance, record keeping and internal controls to ensure an audit-ready environment.

• Provide business continuity training for team members and ensure documentation is clear, accessible and audit ready.

• Support internal and external audits, as well as annual SOC reviews of third party vendors.

Expected Areas of Competence (i.e., knowledge, skills and abilities)

• Strong knowledge of statutory employment rules applying to payroll transactions

• Ability to work independently, coordinate multiple large projects through planning, prioritizing, and multi-tasking in a faced-paced environment.

• Ability to influence and leverage a customer centric approach to building and maintaining relationships. • Initiative, self-starter and process-driven with high level of attention to details.

• Good organizational and problem-solving skills.

• Good Communication skills (oral and written), interpersonal and collaboration skills

• Proficiency in Business English and Japanese is required.

• Good skills with Microsoft products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and systems required

• Working experience with SuccessFactors EC, integrations to multiple payroll platforms such as ADP GlobalView or SAP Payroll

Education/Experience Requirements

• Required Education/Experience: High School Degree or Equivalent and 8+ years of applicable experience OR Associate’s degree and 6+ years of applicable experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of applicable experience

• Preferred Education/Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Businesss Admin or or equivalent/related. 5 years of experience in Payroll, Payroll Accounting or HR Information Systems.

• FPC, CPP, CIPP, or other payroll certification, preferred. • SAP Payroll experience, ADP GlobalView preferred

Travel Requirements

5 %

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability

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