CPS Performance and Rewards Senior Specialist Help Shape a Seamless Employee Experience Compensation, Benefits, and Performance Management go beyond programs and processes. It's about recognizing contributions, supporting employee wellbeing, and enabling people to perform at their best throughout their career journey. Role Summary As a Performance and Rewards Senior Specialist, you will serve as a subject matter expert responsible for managing end-to-end compensation, benefits, and performance management operations and supporting payroll activities. · Execute, validate, and coordinate compensation, benefits, performance management, and payroll processes across the full employee lifecycle, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of enrollments, payroll transactions, terminations, reconciliations, reporting requirements, and audit-related activities. · Ensure process accuracy, compliance, and adherence to policies, controls, requirements, governance standards, and service level agreements. · Partner with HR, Finance, Local People Services, payroll vendors, benefits providers, and other stakeholders to ensure timely delivery, issue resolution, and service excellence. · Lead the resolution of complex payroll issues, discrepancies, escalations, and operational risks through effective root cause analysis and corrective actions. · Drive process standardization, efficiency improvements, automation opportunities, and service enhancements to improve employee and stakeholder experience. · Maintain process documentation and knowledge repositories, support onboarding and knowledge transfer activities, and coach team members on BAU operations and best practices. · Monitor KPIs, SLAs, and operational performance, facilitate stakeholder discussions, provide strategic recommendations, manage workload distribution, and proactively escalate risks and dependencies. About the Team You will join a collaborative team committed to delivering accurate, efficient, and employee-centric People Services solutions. What We Are Looking For · At least 3 to 5 years of payroll and benefits operations experience, with strong exposure to end-to- end payroll processing, compensation and benefits administration, payroll validation, reconciliations, statutory compliance, employee inquiries, and year-end activities. · Experience supporting multi-country payroll operations, preferably across APAC, Europe, or other international regions. · Background in Shared Services, Global Business Services (GBS), BPO, SSO, or outsourced payroll environments is highly preferred. · Advanced Excel and payroll data analysis skills, with demonstrated ability to perform reconciliations, variance analysis, data validation, and payroll reporting. · Solid understanding of payroll governance, internal controls, audit requirements, data privacy, and the handling of confidential employee information. · Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Management, or a related field preferred. · Self-directed and results-oriented, with the ability to work effectively with minimal supervision. What We Offer Opportunities to work in a global and collaborative environment, continuous learning, and exposure to transformation initiatives. Don't meet every requirement? Don't let that hold you back. Research shows that many talented candidates only apply when they meet every qualification. If this role excites you and your experience aligns with most of the requirements, we encourage you to apply. How to Apply Click the apply button on our careers site and submit your application through Workday. Job Application Safety Reminder · Apply only via official ING platforms and Workday. · Legitimate communications come from @ing.com and/or @myworkday.com. · ING will never request payments or banking information during recruitment. About ING With 65,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Join us. Apply today. We’re a global bank with a strong European base, and our more than 60,000 colleagues serve around 38 million customers and corporate clients in over 40 countries. Joining ING means working with friendly and collaborative people towards making a positive impact on people and planet. We believe in empowering the people around us and our customers to stay a step ahead. Working here means having the autonomy to drive progress, helping to create superior customer value and contributing to our ambition of putting sustainability at the heart of everything we do. Here, we’re more than just a workplace – we’re a community of innovators, problem-solvers, and forward-thinkers, dedicated to making a real impact. Whether you’re just starting your career or seeking the next big challenge, we have opportunities that will inspire and push you to grow. Your future at ING starts with one application. Ready to join? We’ve got plenty of opportunities to match your skills and aspirations! 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