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Senior Process Analyst - Payroll
globalthoughtfocus
Karnataka, IND
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
Payroll administration and operationsIndia payroll processingIndian statutory payroll complianceAPAC multi-country payrollPayroll reconciliationPayroll accounting
Key Skills for This Role
Payroll administration and operationsIndia payroll processingIndian statutory payroll complianceAPAC multi-country payrollPayroll reconciliationPayroll accounting
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Payroll administration
- Manage end-to-end monthly payroll for employees across India and APAC.
- Review and validate payroll inputs, including employee changes, salary revisions, incentives, deductions, leave, overtime, and reimbursements.
- Ensure accurate and timely processing against payroll calendars and SLAs; validate payroll before and after processing and resolve discrepancies.
- Coordinate payroll cutoffs and 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 statutory filings and payments; coordinate remittances, reconciliations, audits, and statutory inspections.
- Coordinate payroll processing across APAC countries with local vendors and review country-specific inputs, deductions, taxes, benefits, and reports.
- Ensure compliance with local regulations and payroll calendars; liaise with regional HR, Finance, tax teams, and vendors.
Reconciliation and stakeholder support
- Perform payroll-to-GL and payroll-to-bank reconciliations and validate payroll registers, funding reports, deductions, and accounting entries.
- Coordinate journal postings and month-end close; investigate variances and support accruals, provisions, and payroll financial reporting.
- Respond to employee payroll queries and work with HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Accounting, Compensation & Benefits, regional teams, and payroll providers.
- Handle sensitive payroll information confidentially and ensure provider adherence to agreed SLAs.
Controls and improvement
- Establish payroll controls, participate in audits, and maintain SOPs, process documentation, checklists, and control matrices.
- Identify automation, standardization, and process improvement opportunities; support payroll system implementation, enhancement, or migration.
- Ensure appropriate segregation of duties and access controls around payroll data.
Required skills and experience
- 3–5+ years of payroll administration or operations experience, preferably managing India and APAC payroll.
- Hands-on India payroll processing and statutory compliance experience; experience with multi-country payroll and regional vendors.
- Understanding of APAC payroll practices, taxation, statutory deductions, and compliance requirements.
- Knowledge of payroll reconciliation, payroll accounting, month-end activities, and high-volume payroll operations.
- Strong Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, data validation, and payroll data analysis.
- Experience with payroll or HRIS systems such as Workday, SAP, ADP, Darwinbox, SuccessFactors, PeopleStrong, or similar.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, confidentiality, communication, and ability to manage deadlines and stakeholders across time zones.
Preferred qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, HR, Business Administration, or a related discipline is preferred.
- Payroll certification is advantageous.
- Payroll transformation, automation, HRIS implementation, global organization, shared-services, BPO, or managed payroll experience is preferred.
- Exposure to payroll processes in Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, or other APAC markets is preferred.
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