Senior Specialist - India Payroll & Compliance

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The purpose of this role is to provide expert services for employees, managers and HR community in the area of Payroll related data and processes, and act as a subject matter expert for these services. Services provided by this role mainly refer to second level (complex) Payroll processes, such as pre- and post PY-run activities, taxation and finance related activities (reconciliation, accruals, etc).

Key Responsibilities:

• Statutory Compliance Management: Labour Laws & S&E Act.
• Statutory Compliance: Submission of Return & Record Management
• Managing of Statutory Audit | Inspections
• Payroll Administration: Input, Processing, Checking, Verification
• Statutory Compliance w.r.t to payroll: ESIC, PF, PT, LWF, NPS, Income tax etc.
• Employee Separation/Superannuation: Full & Final | Settlement of Deceased Cases
• Reporting and dashboarding that involves aggregation of data from various sources, maintaining HR data quality, and the analysis of data.
• Managing the entire full and final settlement process
• Co-ordination with cross functional team for the timely closure of F&F
• Resolving employees query and grievances within TAT
• Maintain confidentiality of the data
• Preparation and verification of Experience Relieving & recovery Letters
• Maintaining the employee database regarding salary and pay.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent analytical skills ability to analyze large datasets, detect and correct errors, interpret and report results to senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (must be able to simplify complex topics, clearly articulate research, and persuasively engage senior leaders)
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint high efficiency)
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to build relationships and interact/negotiate with HR partners
• strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
• Experience in SAP Success Factor and ADP payroll system is preferred

Key Relationships:

• HRBPs
• Talent Acquisition
• Rewards team
• Payroll team
• 3rd Party Vendors

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Accountancy, Finance, or related professional qualification.
• More than 7 years progressive work experience in the field of India Payroll
• Experience in payroll/financial analysis in an IT/Retail organization preferred.
• Project management experience preferable
• Strong Communication skills