Who You'll Work With
You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Exceptional benefits: In addition to a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.
Your Impact
You will be responsible for a variety of activities related to end-to-end payroll processing. Supervising the team to ensure timely processing, audit and closing of in-house payroll for key Asia-Pacific countries.In this role, you will be largely supporting regular payroll operation and keeping the accountability for achieving operational targets & key performance indicators (KPI) by adhering to compliance with policies and procedures, operational excellence, etc. You will regularly analyze the process, identify improvement areas, and recommend new ideas to improve the overall process and thereby improve customer satisfaction. You will be an effective team player and work along with other teams to achieve the common goals of the firm. The second part of the role will be supporting payroll transformation including working guiding through configuration, testing, and roll-out phases.You will be partnering with functional leadership to identify issues, gather necessary information, use the right information for solving problems, and come up with practical solutions. You will be responsible for assessing the team members’ performance objectively, identifying the training needs, and organizing appropriate training to people. You will regularly provide constructive feedback to members on their performances. Additionally, you will resolve conflicts between team members effectively and efficiently.You will be based in our Chennai office as part of our Global Payroll team in coordination with office accounting, firm colleagues and applications support team.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Master’s degree in commerce, business administration, or a bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting
- 10+ years of experience in corporate and/or professional services, with at least 3+ years leading teams of 10+ members in a multinational shared services environment
- Demonstrated expertise in payroll processes across key Asia-Pacific countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and Vietnam
- Extensive experience in global payroll functions, including balance sheet reconciliations, accounting activities, and payroll processing
- Demonstrated experience in payroll transformation initiatives, including system testing, pay comparisons, parallel runs, and ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and archival
- Exposure to managing global clients and working in a multinational environment
- Strong knowledge of payroll processing and accounting concepts, with the ability to apply them effectively in a global context
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other relevant tools with experience in creating high-quality, work product-focused materials and outputs
- Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to independently initiate and complete tasks in a complex, fast-paced environment
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to use logic and structured methods to develop effective solutions to complex challenges
- Exceptional time management skills to meet responsibilities in a largely autonomous work environment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to adapt communication styles to suit diverse audiences and seniority levels
