Payroll Specialist

Job Description:

• Prepares and sends inputs to the payroll vendors for compensation calculation.
• Performs computations and other duties necessary to prepare payroll information for computer input, adjust computer output, and process exception items or those requiring special handling.
• Creates and maintains employee master data along with other payroll data to produce and distribute payroll system reports.
• Ensures accurate payment of wages and benefits.
• Owns payroll support, resolves payroll issues, responds to payroll employee inquiries and documents new payroll processes or updates documentation as required.
• Conducts regularly scheduled audits of payroll records to ensure continued accuracy.
• Prepares and maintains accurate records and reports of payroll transactions.
• Provides Finance with timely and accurate general ledger interfaces, journal entries, and various month end reports necessary to correctly allocate earnings to the relevant departments.
• Monitors, escalates, and addresses any excursion that occurs consistent with the value of being defect free.
• Reports to management any identified process improvement recommendations, efficiencies, procedure gaps or areas of concern, specific to payroll and time collection procedures.
• Champions lean methodologies, business process management, development, and deployment of cost competitive solutions to maintain or improve performance and user experience.
• Ensures compliance with both internal payroll policies and external government requirements.
• Collaborates with other disciplines (e.g., Finance, Legal, Tax, etc.) on payroll specific change management communications.

Qualifications:

• This position requires a Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline Degree in Human Resource, Finance, Accounting or equivalent business experience.
• Attention to detail with ability to deliver quality output whilst working under pressure and to tight timelines.
• Proficient in English in both written and verbal to support global and regional stakeholders.
• Strong business partnering influencing and stakeholder management skills are essential in order to support the regional requirements suppliers and remote team partners.
• Computer literacy analytical and problem solving skills with high attention to detail and data are required.
• Ability to be versatile coping with ambiguity and work odd hours when require
• Advance skill in Microsoft Excel. Payroll accounting, SOX and automation experience would be added advantages.

Work Model for this Role

This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.