Payroll and People Data Manager, India

The Payroll and People Data Manager is responsible for:

1. Payroll execution across multiple countries globally with close collaboration with the global vendor plus supporting a number of other payroll country models,
2. Leading teams in the areas of HR-Operations and Payroll including Payroll management, payroll processing, tax support and other related specialist tasks.
3. Working with the regional Ops leads and Payroll Manager across regions and our service providers including but not limited to TCS, this role will work towards the creation and implementation of lean payroll organisation with specific focus on global standardization, continuous improvements, design and implementation of standard tools, vendor performance management, processes and procedures.
4. Bringing Professional experience and understanding of Payroll operations, systems and transformation.
5. Drive & Lead HR & Payroll projects across regions, partner with regional ops leads & teams, contribute to delivery of best-in-class People function services to the British Council organisation, working in partnership with the external professional services partner.

The successful candidate will ensure excellence in end-to-end operations services across multiple countries, including operations and payroll services which have been outsourced to a professional services company and those which are delivered in-house, working collaboratively with internal stakeholders and the professional services company to plan and execute HR processes and practices and to drive a culture of continuous operational improvement.

Role Context:

The British Council Professional Services is on a journey, undergoinga significant transformation. For the People function, this means a significant change to the delivery of people services to business leaders, line managers and employees.

The British Council has entered a contract with a professional services partner to provide people services covering areas such as HR Admin, Learning and Development, Pre-Appointment Screening, Pre-Payroll administration, and Payroll.

This partner provides an important operational and tactical component to HR operations and, as such, it is important to the British Council that this is integrated with the People function services performed by British Council to deliver value and cost effectiveness to the HR organisation and excellent service to the wider organisation and our employees.

Main accountabilities, but not limited to the following:

• Strategy &/or planning
• Leadership & management
• Relationship & stakeholder management
• Service improvement.
• Governance and Reporting.
• Professional services expertise

Role specific knowledge and experience:

Essential requirements:

• Strong knowledge & experience in Payroll operations & servicing, principles of tax & other related payroll laws. Multi-region experience is preferred.
• Experience with payroll transformation & outsourcing,
• Knowledge of HRIS and payroll systems and processes
• Organisational skills, attention to detail, and ability to handle confidential information
• Strong team working and collaborative approach and ability to build relationships internally and externally
• Demonstrable experience in providing expert advice and guidance on internal and external communications and meetings.

Desirable:

• Experience of working with SAP Success Factors
• Experienced in Human Resource operations

Further Information

• Pay Band: 7

• Contract Type: Indefinite Contract

• Location: Noida, India

• The Role holder must have existing rights to live and work in India.

• Closing Date: Applications will close on 21 September at 21:59 UK Time