Manager - Payroll

Are you a payroll professional with a passion for precision and compliance? Join our dynamic team where youll lead end-to-end payroll operations, ensure timely statutory payments, and manage confidential employee data with integrity. Step into a role where your expertise powers seamless salary disbursements and supports a world-class employee experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end-to-end payroll processing and management including consolidation of payroll input, validation, and further share with payroll vendor
• Review payroll outputs such as pay sheet and tax sheet and ensuring accurate and timely salary disbursements.
• Monitor and execute timely payments of statutory obligations, including PF, ESIC, Professional Tax, LWF, and Income Tax
• Works as first point of contact for the in-country payroll
• Ensures the organizations payroll is completed in a timely and accurate manner
• Accurately creating, collating, maintaining, processing and validating employee payroll data and records by gathering, calculating, monitoring and inputting data as necessary
• Manages the escalation process for any issues with payroll and with the chosen outsourced provider
• Adheres to company policies and procedures and complies with relevant laws
• Ensures payroll controls are in place and adhered to
• Monitors and responds to incoming calls, e-mails, post and messages to ensure a first-class service for all
• Takes the lead with complex queries from employees, finance functions, outsourced payroll provider and third-party suppliers in a professional, timely and competent manner
• Verifying data for payroll by checking carefully the information received and raising queries when required
• Responsible for keeping all payroll data safe and confidential at all times while adhering to local rules for data protection
• Produces and supplies regular and on-demand payroll reports as and when requested to do so
• Provide development opportunities for yourself and others in the payroll team and provide coaching sessions where required
• Takes the lead on payroll year-end responsibilities and any other ad hoc processes or projects
• Responsible for invoice processing
• Takes the lead in escalating payroll queries to the next level
• Participate and provide relevant details for the annual internal and external audit projects
• Participates/takes the lead in payroll-related projects
• Providing support and communications to HRMs (Human Resource Managers), participating in HR meetings when required to do so
• Responsibility for authorization of payroll-related payments
• Managing payroll data relevant reconciliations with finance.Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

Qualification: Any Graduate.

Skills Required:

• Minimum 10-12 years of work experience in managing Payroll India
• In-depth knowledge of payroll practice and statutory compliances of India
• Strong organizational skills and senior stakeholder management
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to manage time and work under pressure to meet deadlines
• Clear understanding of payroll processes and procedures
• Excellent payroll knowledge, preferably from qualification and experience
• Good understanding of data protection and handling sensitive and confidential data
• Monitoring error levels and proactively resolving issues to prevent recurrence
• Ability to handle sensitive matters professionally and confidentially
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software
• Strong team working skills within own team and cross-functional teams
• Strong payroll skills for full end-to-end processing, including tax and statutory calculations
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Transition or outsourcing experience is an added advantage