Payroll Specialist - India

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Are you ready to take on a role that impacts SHL’s 20+ global entities? As a Payroll Specialist, you’ll ensure payroll is accurate, timely, and compliant while collaborating with HR, Finance, and external providers. You’ll assist employees with payroll queries and drive continuous process improvements—an ideal fit for a detail-oriented professional who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
A great benefits package is offered in a culture where career development, with ongoing manager guidance, collaboration, flexibility, diversity, and inclusivity are all intrinsic to our culture. There is a huge investment in SHL currently so there’s no better time to become a part of something transformational.
What you will be doing:

• Process payroll across multiple countries in line with published deadlines, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and proper approval controls (e.g., exception reporting, sign-offs).
• Ensure compliance with local labour, tax, and regulatory requirements as well as internal company policies.
• Collect and validate payroll input data from SHL’s HRIS (and other sources) to ensure complete and accurate payroll .
• Partner with outsourced payroll providers in multiple geographies to ensure quality delivery.
• Prepare data required for monthly payroll journals and help Finance with reconciliations and analysis.
• Attend to queries from external auditors during the annual financial statement audit.
• Address and resolve staff payroll queries in a timely and professional manner.
• Provide payroll expertise and guidance to HR and Finance colleagues.
• Assist continuous improvements to payroll processes, systems, and controls, including vendor transitions and automation initiatives.

• Poven payroll experience, ideally with exposure to multi-country payrolls.
• Hands-on experience handling payrolls end-to-end (from input to processing, review, and payment).
• Familiarity with ADP Streamline is highly desirable.

• Strong knowledge of payroll tax, statutory filings, and compliance requirements.
• Experience preparing payroll journals and assisting Finance with reporting.
• Strong logical and critical thinking

• We unlock the possibilities of businesses through the power of people, science and technology.
• We started this industry of people insight more than 40 years ago and continue to lead the market with powerhouse product launches, ground-breaking science and business transformation.
• When you inspire and transform people’s lives, you will experience the greatest business outcomes possible. SHL’s products insights, experiences, and services can help achieve growth at scale.

Diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility are key threads in the fabric of SHL’s business and culture (find out more about DEI and accessibility at SHL)

• Employee benefits package that takes care of you and your family.
• Support, coaching, and on-the-job development to achieve career success
• A fun and flexible workplace where you’ll be inspired to do your best work (find out more LifeAtSHL)
• The ability to transform workplaces around the world for others.

SHL is an equal opportunity employer. We support and encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates. We can, and do make adjustments to make sure our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible.