Senior Payroll Analyst
Job Summary
Job Description
Forescout is seeking a Senior Payroll Analyst to manage end-to-end payroll for their India entity and international locations, primarily in EMEA and APAC regions. This role involves maintaining and extending current in-house payroll processes to support the company's growth. Responsibilities include processing payroll, ensuring compliance with statutory deductions and benefits, collaborating with HR and finance, validating payroll data, preparing and filing quarterly returns, resolving employee queries, and liaising with compliance vendors. The analyst will also assist with audits, stay updated on labor laws, identify process improvements, and prepare payroll accounting and reconciliations.
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 4-8 years of payroll and statutory compliance experience
- In-depth knowledge of payroll tax laws
- Experience with EPFO, Income Tax portals
- Proficient with MS Excel
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Experience with payroll for EMEA/APAC countries is preferred
Good to have:
- Experience in high-growth environments
- Experience with TopSource and Vistra
- Experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud or NetSuite
Perks:
- Professional growth and development
- Diverse and inclusive culture
- Collaboration and innovation
- Competitive total compensation package
- Opportunities for recognition and advancement
8 skills required
Job Details
What We Do
Managing cyber risk, together – Today the modern enterprise is an Enterprise of Things. We are on a mission to secure the Enterprise of Things with active defense by identifying, segmenting, and enforcing compliance of every connected thing in a real-time and at scale. Our unified security platform enables enterprises and government agencies to focus on Zero Trust segmentation, IT/OT convergence, and OT/ICS innovation, all supporting our mission and vision.
Join us as we secure the world with our products. We are looking for resourceful individuals to collaborate as one team while ensuring a world-class customer experience. We are cyber-obsessed about addressing the world’s most challenging security problems. Innovation starts here, everyone’s ideas are valued, visionaries welcomed!
What You Will Do
The Senior Payroll Analyst role is a critical role within our payroll function, sharing responsibility for our India entity and other international locations' end-to-end payroll duties. We have employees in approximately 30 countries, mostly in EMEA and APAC regions. This role will share responsibilities for all our payroll locations. We are looking for a specialist/SME who can handle this role into our next chapter of setting up in-house processes: Extending our current systems and processes—infrastructure that has served our over 3,000+ customer base, across 70 countries and our over 1,000 employees at revenue levels exceeding $300 million annually—on to the next level: 1,000+ employees and annual revenues approaching $500M.
Key routine responsibilities of the role include sharing responsibility for our international payroll locations with a complete payroll cycle with full ownership. Ensuring compliance with the policies and laws with assistance from outside providers. This position will partner with the Corporate team in the US to ensure maintaining the necessary infrastructure, compliance, and processes within our global operations.
Key non-routine responsibilities of the role include extending our current systems and processes to levels necessary to continue the Company’s rapid growth trajectory
The position will report to the Director of Accounting based in India.
The senior payroll Analyst will possess strong organizational and communication skills. The candidate will be self-motivated with the ability to provide solutions for issues identified. The successful candidate is a competent individual with integrity, accountability, strong interpersonal skills, and a team player. The position requires a “hands-on” person who is flexible, hard-working, and able to work well under pressure. The primary duties and responsibilities of the role include the following but are not limited
Key Responsibilities:
- End to End payroll processing through a payroll platform with a thorough knowledge of applicable statutory deductions and benefits (PF, PT, ESIC, LWF etc.,) (for ~200 employees in India and ~200 employees in primarily the EMEA and APAC regions)
- Collaborate with HR and finance teams to ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll.
- Validation of final payroll input versus output.
- Establish standardized procedures to outline TAT (turnaround time) for payroll queries and organize help helpdesk sessions (both remote and on-site).
- Ensure F&F is processed after the handover of company assets and clearances.
- Preparation and filing of quarterly ETDS—FORM 26Q and FORM 27Q—and issuing the FORM 16A certificate on time.
- Resolving queries of exited employees regarding F&F settlement.
- Preparation of revised salary fitment during the performance appraisal period.
- Coordinating/liaising with statutory compliance vendors to ensure the organisation complies with all the applicable labor laws and Acts for all countries.
- Ensure compliance with National, state, and local regulations related to payroll, taxes, and benefits, including maintenance of applicable statutory registers.
- Processing Monthly, Quarterly and Annual returns.
- Collaborating with business leaders to align reward strategies with organizational goals and performance objectives.
- Assist in internal and external audits related to payroll and compliance matters. Prepare necessary documentation as required for audit purposes
- Stay updated on changes in Indian labour laws and statutory requirements related to payroll.
- Identify areas of process improvement within payroll and compliance functions.
- Compensation-related trends are to be prepared and sent to the delivery heads.
- Support any special projects in job grading and job evaluations as per the organization’s policy. Partner with HRBPs and Business leaders to maintain an appropriate grade structure and ensure effective governance.
- Prepare monthly payroll accounting and reconciliations, including variance analysis to share with the management and highlight any major deviations.
What You Will Bring To Forescout
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Minimum a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- Accomplished senior/lead payroll specialist with 4-8 years of progressive experience in Payroll and Statutory Compliance, preferably with experience in high-growth environments (high technology, specifically in the software industry, preferred).
- TopSource and Vistra experience is preferred
- Payroll processing for EMEA and/or APAC countries preferred
- In-depth knowledge of national, state, and local payroll tax laws and regulations.
- Experience working on EPFO, Income Tax, and other necessary portals
- Experience with auditing of challans and necessary statutory factors
- The person should be sensitive and mature about handling employees' concerns/query
- Proficient with MS Excel.
- System savvy and ability to work with different applications and databases; experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud, NetSuite and other cloud-based ERPs is a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the demonstrated ability to work independently, yet cooperatively and constructively, in a team environment.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with strong attention to detail
- Proven success in building and managing team
- The Person should be ready to travel to other office locations if needed.
What Forescout Offers You
Our visionary leadership team fosters an environment that encourages professional growth and development. We champion a diverse and inclusive culture that cultivates collaboration and innovation, where our team can make a global impact on security while working with industry-leading technology. We take pride in offering a competitive total compensation package. If you have a strong work ethic, are visible and lean in, you will be recognised. We are in growth mode and there is a ton of opportunity at Forescout. Apply now to find out more!
More About Forescout
The Forescout 4D Platform™ provides complete asset intelligence and control across IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. For more than 20 years, Fortune 100 organizations, government agencies, and large enterprises have trusted Forescout as their foundation to manage cyber risk, ensure compliance, and mitigate threats. With seamless context sharing and workflow orchestration across more than 100 full-featured security and IT product integrations, Forescout makes every cybersecurity investment more effective. Learn more at www.Forescout.com.
Our Mission
To continuously identify, protect, and ensure the compliance of all cyber assets across the modern organisation.
Our Vision
A world where every cyber asset is seen, secure and compliant.
Our Cultural Values
- Cyber Obsessed – We are curious about technology, and we are innovative and passionate about solving big programs.
- Customer Driven – We listen, we learn, and we make it right.
- Collaborative, without Ego – No one succeeds alone. We strive to be the humble person that people want to work with.
- Relentless – We're smart, determined, and find a way. We figure stuff out.
- One Team – We all work together, and we all win together.
Our DEI Statement
At Forescout, we are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We believe that diversity of background, experiences, and perspectives leads to innovation, creativity, and better decision making. We strive to create an environment where all team members feel valued, respected, and empowered. We actively promote equal opportunities and fair treatment for all individuals, regardless of their race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. By embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we aspire to build a successful culture where we work together and win together as One Team.
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us.
If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply!
If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply!
NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:Wevalue the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Forescout does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Forescout employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Employment Placement Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature.
No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.
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