Experience

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  Technipfmc

  • Na Global Mobility Manager

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  Woodside Energy

  • Houston, Texas, United States

  • Global Mobility Sr Specialist

    • Jun 2022 - Present
    • Houston, Texas, United States

    • Provide strategic and consultative Global Immigration, Relocation and Mobility services to the HR and business groups in US and Australia, including full life-cycle support for employees on short and long-term assignments, domestic and international relocation, and new country entry support. • GM Lead for Petroleum during merger process between BHP & Woodside. Established new employing entity and successful transfer of all work permits for legal day 1. • Manage relationship with Global Mobility vendors to ensure customer satisfaction both with the assignee and HR business partners.

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  BHP

  • Australia
  • Mining
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Specialist Global Mobility

    • Apr 2020 - Aug 2022

    Manage the global international assignee movements for Americas region of BHP. These locations included Canada, US, Mexico and Trinidad covering the lifecycle of the assignment for both project based and permanent moves.• Advise Business Unit management and HR on international policy, process and packages. • Coordinate with HR Business Partners & HR Service Centers for payroll updates and initiations.• Work with Reward and HR Managers during annual & mid-year salary review. Review all temporary IA salary updates and new compensation benefits statements. Update system with new pensionable salaries for permanent moves as well as coordinate split bonus payments for mid-year permanent moves.Represented global mobility for the project work during separation of BHP Petroleum to ensure all employing entities and employees were ready for legal day one under new company.

  • Principal Transformation and Enablement

    • Jan 2019 - Mar 2020

    • Managed, motivated, coached and developed a team of global mobility specialists to deliver world class service against performance targets to ensure service delivery is compliant, timely and customer-focussed whilst maintaining operational discipline. Supports the team with prioritising workload and requests.• Provided specialist technical subject matter expertise in the area of global mobility including tax, immigration and relocation, and external legal, regulatory and reporting requirements.• Supporedt the GAS GM team with resolving complex employee and leader global mobility queries and was the point of escalation for the business on service delivery and compliance issues. • Accountable for the governance, delivery, administration and execution of BHP’s global mobility program, policies and procedures, including, but not limited to:o Oversee day to day case management for International Assignees (IAs) (including executive employees) with regard to relocation, tax, immigration services including IA contractual requirements, and assignment enquiry managemento Management of policy exceptions requestso provide guidance and support to GAS IA Payroll team o maintainance and ongoing governance of IA data in AssignmentPro and other external Vendor third party systems to ensure completeness and accuracy of records. o develop relationships with BHP’s external tax, immigration and relocation vendors to ensure high quality service delivery and prompt resolution of issues

  • Global Mobility Specialist

    • Apr 2010 - Dec 2018

    • Manage the global international assignee movements for Petroleum division of BHP. These locations included Australia, United Kingdom, Asia, & South America and inbound into the US covering the lifecycle of the assignment for both project based and permanent moves.• Advise Business Unit management and HR on international policy, process and packages. • Coordinate with HR Business Partners & HR Service Centers for payroll updates and initiations.• Work with Reward and HR Managers during annual & mid-year salary review. Review all temporary IA salary updates and new compensation benefits statements. Update system with new pensionable salaries for permanent moves as well as coordinate split bonus payments for mid-year permanent moves.• Participated in the 1SAP HR global transition for BHP. Was part of the Petroleum HR team and represented global mobility by testing and validating IA payroll functionality on site in Houston & Singapore. Continued to participate during go-live as IA’s had to be manually created in the system and all the templates with their details/wagetypes uploaded during the three testing phases and final go-live.

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  BP

  • International Mobility Advisor

    • May 2006 - Apr 2010

    • Managed expatriate population of over 200 expatriates/rotators outbound into Middle East, United Kingdom, Asia, Russia, South America and inbound into the US including:o Education on international assignment policyo Coordination of payroll and benefitso Preparation of cost projectionso Preparation and discussion of assignment compensation packageo Coordination of immigration/work authorization• Advise Business Unit management and HR on international policy and packages. • Worked on the transition of International Mobility management back in-house from external provider creating processes, and building relationships with business units and vendors

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  Lockheed Martin

  • Sr. International Human Resources Advisor

    • May 1998 - Dec 2005

    • Payroll lead and 2nd level tier support for all business unit expat consultants regarding issues on policy, compensation and relocation. • Technology project manager for 3 projects (Remedy, Smartforms enhancements and LINK Phase 2). • Transitioned the expatriate population from GEMS database/payroll system to LINK Enterprise. • Managed the expatriate population for Aeronautics division (150 short and long-term assignees) through their assignment life cycle (package set-up, orientation, expatriation and repatriation)• Working directly with Business Unit customers, recommended and prepared expatriate compensation packages consistent with Lockheed Martin Corporation policy guidelines. • Supervised and provided training to (in partnership with designated vendors, internal teammates, and department staff) business units on the implementation of immigration, relocation, destination services, language and/or cross-cultural training, payroll and accounting services, tax planning, and repatriation. • Participated as part of a team effort in the revision of Corporate Policy Statement (CPS – 539) on the Transfer of Employees - Non-domestic Location and marketed these changes to business unit personnel. • Administered the corporate headquarter expatriates (business unit Presidents and V.P.’s) that were expatriates in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Updated the monthly changes to allowances via the payroll system.

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  BJ Services

  • Houston, Texas

  • International HR

    • Jan 1995 - Apr 1998
    • Houston, Texas

    • Administer international payroll and compensation for expatriates and commuters. • Assist outside counsel with immigration issues for expatriates and inpatriates. • Administer company-wide service award program. • Assist expatriates/commuters with relocation and with any benefit/compensation issues

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  PDVSA SERVICES INC

  • Houston, TX

  • HR Generalist

    • Jan 1991 - Dec 1995
    • Houston, TX

    • Administer company-wide payroll (100+). • Assist HR Supervisor with the administration of the company benefits (Medical/Dental, 401K, Pension, etc).