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Senior Process Analyst - Payroll
ThoughtFocus
Karnataka, IND
Full-time
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
India payroll processingIndia payroll statutory complianceMulti-country payrollAPAC payroll practicesPayroll reconciliationPayroll accounting
Key Skills for This Role
India payroll processingIndia payroll statutory complianceMulti-country payrollAPAC payroll practicesPayroll reconciliationPayroll accounting
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Payroll administration
- Manage end-to-end monthly payroll processing for employees across India and APAC.
- Review and validate inputs including new hires, exits, promotions, transfers, salary changes, bonuses, incentives, deductions, leave, overtime, and reimbursements.
- Meet payroll calendars and SLAs, perform pre- and post-payroll validations, resolve discrepancies, coordinate cut-offs, and maintain employee master data.
Compliance and regional payroll
- Manage India payroll compliance and support monthly, quarterly, and annual statutory filings, payments, remittances, reconciliations, audits, and inspections.
- Apply applicable requirements including PF, ESI, Professional Tax, TDS, Labour Welfare Fund, Gratuity, and Bonus.
- Coordinate APAC payroll vendors; review country-specific inputs, deductions, taxes, benefits, reports, calendars, regulations, and process documentation.
Reconciliation and stakeholder support
- Perform payroll-to-GL and payroll-to-bank reconciliations; validate payroll registers, funding reports, statutory deductions, and accounting entries.
- Coordinate payroll journal postings and month-end close; investigate variances and support accruals, provisions, and financial reporting.
- Respond to employee payroll queries and work with HR, Finance, Accounting, Compensation & Benefits, regional teams, and external providers.
Controls and process improvement
- Maintain payroll controls, participate in internal and external audits, and maintain SOPs, process documentation, checklists, and control matrices.
- Protect payroll information through appropriate confidentiality, segregation of duties, and access controls.
- Identify automation, standardization, and process-improvement opportunities; support payroll system implementation, enhancement, or migration.
Required skills and experience
- 3–5+ years in payroll administration or operations, preferably covering India and APAC; strong hands-on India payroll and statutory compliance experience.
- Experience with multi-country payroll, regional vendors, APAC payroll practices, taxation, statutory deductions, and compliance.
- Strong payroll reconciliation, payroll accounting, month-end, and high-volume payroll operations experience.
- Strong Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, data validation, and payroll data analysis.
- Experience with payroll or HRIS platforms such as Workday, SAP, ADP, Darwinbox, SuccessFactors, PeopleStrong, or similar.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, 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.
- Professional payroll certification is an advantage.
- 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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