Global Mobility Specialist - with Japanese

A Japanese speaking Global Mobility Specialist is required to join a European HR Team. £38,800, must be analytical with excellent communication skills and motivated to learn. Previous experience is not necessary but fluent written and spoken Japanese and English is. You will be comfortable working in a fast paced international business with an understanding of cross-culture differences. 

35 hours per week, with flexibility for when you work.  The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday.  However, there is flexibility of when you work with a daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement. 50/50 Hybrid working. 
Role: 

This role will be supporting the effective Management of expatriates from Japan HQ and from European Branches managing day to day queries and processes.
 
As a member of the HR team, you will also be involved in HR activities and projects as required, taking an active role in delivering and developing an exceptional HR service to business.

Main Responsibilities: 

Japanese Expats:
•    Manage expats’ expatriation, onboarding, on assignment, repatriation operational processes 
     o    Apply for expats Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS), Tier 2 General and visa extension.
     o    Provide Welfare support for Japanese expats and their family.
     o    Manage all housing matters for Japanese expats (e.g. Support house search, closing housing contract, negotiation with the landlord, process payment etc)
     o    Manage Japanese expats’ expense claim process
     o    Support the Japanese expat’s tax & NI matter working with external tax advisor
•    Support UK Immigration Sponsor duties and audit.
•    Liaise with HM for expat’s policy, payroll, tax and welfare matters.
•    Updating the Honda in-house system, PJA Information box (Share point Information).
•    Keeping up to date about immigration matters for all required countries for inbound and outbound employees.

European Expats:
•    Manage monthly payroll run for European expats
•    Manage the European expat’s tax & NI matter working with external tax advisor
•    Liaise with local HR managers at destination country as necessary
•    Responsible for UK Immigration Sponsor duties and audit.
•    Apply for expats Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS), Tier 2 General and visa extension.
•    Provide Welfare support for expats and their family.
•    Manage all housing matters for expats.
•    Define, prepare and monitor the annual expatriates’ budget, comparison actual cost, statutory account report.
 
Qualifications, skills and experience: Required/Desirable

Required
•    Ability to undertake analytical work with good numerical skills. 
•    Ability to interact well with people at all levels within the organisation with excellent communication skills (written and spoken).
•    Language: English and Japanese mandatory.
•    Excellent MS Office skills (especially Excel).
•    The role will suit someone who is well-organised and motivated to learn. High attention to detail is essential.
•    Comfortable working in fast paced international business with matrix structures, understanding of cross-culture differences and management practices highly desirable.

Desirable
•    Previous experience in global mobility
•    Understanding of immigration rules, regulation, and requirements.
•    Understanding of UK payroll and tax regulation.
•    Project management skills with multiple stakeholders management experience
•    GMS-T Qualified professional is an advantage
•    Additional European language is an advantage
 

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