Social Security and Insurance Expert 80 - 100% (f/m/d)

The Social Security and Insurance Specialist serves as a trusted advisor, ensuring regulatory compliance and managing various processes to deliver exceptional employee benefits experiences. In this role, you will leverage your expertise to support both internal and external stakeholders across Switzerland. 
 
Our flexible work practices help you optimize personal and business performance while creating an environment where all employees can develop their skills and grow. 

Your responsibilities

• Acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on matters related to Swiss Social Security and Personnel Insurance for internal partners and customers (e.g. HR community, business managers, employees)

• Ensuring compliance of Personnel Insurance related matters by pro-actively implementing new legal provisions / regulations or adapting existing regulations due to legal or regulatory requirements

• Ensuring that the benefits offering related to social security and personal insurance remains up-to-date and contributes to underline Hitachi Energy’s position as an attractive employer in Switzerland

• Processing complex and escalated HR inquiries and requests (second and third level support) related to your matter of expertise (e.g. in case of escalations, exceptions, special cases, etc.). Owning and managing Social Security and Insurance related processes (e.g. insurance RFPs and selection)

• Processing and monitoring of administrative tasks (e.g. insurance premiums and service accounting)

• Contributing to the maintenance and creation of HR contents related to your matter of expertise (e.g. in policies, factsheets, intranet pages, process documentations and handbook, etc.) 

• Acting as main contact for various external stakeholders (e.g. pension fund, social insurance Office, insurance companies and broker, etc.) in an international environment

• Identifying opportunities for end-to-end process improvements based on customer feedback as well as own experiences and drive respective process improvement related activities, initiatives, and projects

• Supporting your team in Payroll, Compensation & Benefits related tasks, responsibilities, and projects 

Your background

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in a comparable role in an HR environment

• Specialist knowledge in Swiss Social Security and Insurance laws and regulations (AHV, IV, EO, BVG, UVG, etc.)

• Sound knowledge in international Social Security laws and regulations

• Independent and reliable way of working with strong communicational and analytical skills

• Very good level of experience with all MS Office products (especially Excel)

• Good level knowledge in SAP HR and ideally also Workday

• A commercial degree and federal Diploma as Social Security Expert (“Sozialversicherungsfachmann/-frau”)

• Fluency in German and English is a must (French or/and Italian considered a plus)