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Senior Process Analyst - Payroll
globalthoughtfocus
Karnataka, IND
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
India payroll processingAPAC and multi-country payroll operationsIndian statutory payroll compliance: PF, ESI, Professional Tax, TDS, Labour Welfare Fund, Gratuity, and BonusPayroll reconciliation and payroll accountingPayroll-to-GL and payroll-to-bank reconciliationExcel: Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, and data validation
Key Skills for This Role
India payroll processingAPAC and multi-country payroll operationsIndian statutory payroll compliance: PF, ESI, Professional Tax, TDS, Labour Welfare Fund, Gratuity, and BonusPayroll reconciliation and payroll accountingPayroll-to-GL and payroll-to-bank reconciliationExcel: Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, and data validation
Full Job Posting
Payroll administration
- Manage end-to-end monthly payroll processing for employees across India and APAC.
- Review and validate inputs for hires, exits, promotions, transfers, salary changes, bonuses, incentives, deductions, leave, overtime, and reimbursements.
- Meet payroll calendars and SLAs; complete pre- and post-payroll validations, resolve discrepancies, and coordinate cutoffs.
- Maintain payroll records and employee master data.
Compliance and regional payroll
- Manage India payroll activities in compliance with applicable regulations, including PF, ESI, Professional Tax, TDS, Labour Welfare Fund, Gratuity, and Bonus requirements.
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual statutory filings and payments; coordinate remittances and reconciliations with Finance and external partners.
- Support payroll audits and statutory inspections.
- Coordinate APAC payroll with local vendors; review country-specific inputs, deductions, taxes, benefits, and reports.
- Ensure compliance with local requirements and payroll calendars, resolve regional payroll issues, and maintain country-specific process documentation.
Reconciliation and stakeholder support
- Perform payroll-to-GL and payroll-to-bank reconciliations; validate registers, funding reports, statutory deductions, and accounting entries.
- Coordinate journal postings and month-end close; investigate variances and support accruals, provisions, and payroll financial reporting.
- Respond to employee questions about salary, deductions, taxes, benefits, reimbursements, and statutory contributions.
- Handle sensitive payroll information confidentially and coordinate with HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Accounting, Compensation & Benefits, regional teams, and external providers.
Controls and process improvement
- Establish and maintain payroll controls to reduce errors and compliance risks; participate in internal and external audits.
- Maintain SOPs, process documentation, checklists, and control matrices.
- Identify opportunities for payroll automation, standardization, and improvement; support payroll system implementation, enhancement, or migration.
- Ensure appropriate segregation of duties and access controls for payroll data.
Required skills and experience
- 3–5+ years of payroll administration or operations experience, preferably across India and APAC.
- Strong hands-on India payroll processing and statutory compliance experience.
- Experience with multi-country payroll and regional vendors; understanding of APAC practices, taxation, statutory deductions, and compliance.
- Strong payroll reconciliation, payroll accounting, and month-end knowledge; experience with high-volume payroll.
- Strong Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, data validation, and payroll data analysis.
- Experience with Workday, SAP, ADP, Darwinbox, SuccessFactors, PeopleStrong, or similar payroll/HRIS platforms.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, communication, confidentiality, and ability to manage multiple cycles and stakeholders across time zones.
Preferred qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, HR, Business Administration, or a related discipline is preferred.
- Professional payroll certification is advantageous.
- Experience with payroll transformation, automation, or HRIS implementation; global organizations, shared services, BPOs, or managed payroll services; or payroll processes in APAC markets such as Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Japan.
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