Senior Manager – India Payroll

Key Responsibilities

• Management of the entire payroll function, evaluating personnel performance and providing leadership to accomplish objectives
• Motivate team to ensure the most efficient day-to-day operations of the Payroll function
• Ensuring timely and accurate processing of payroll and pension contribution
• Ensure accurate and timely regulatory reporting in various government jurisdictions, remaining current with local requirements
• Implement tools to increase processing efficiency and automation, enhance the payroll processes and improve management reporting
• Work collaboratively with internal and external customers to achieve business results
• Checking and auditing payrolls, ensuring legislative and award compliance and internal reporting
• Ensuring compliance with Internal Audit processes and ensuring a proactive ongoing engagement with our Audit Partner on day to day processes
• Develop systems to process payroll account transactions (e.g. salaries, benefits, garnishments, deductions, taxes and third party payments
• Support and Manage transition to new payroll vendor as part of global payroll transformation
• Own internal and external audit controls and ensure enhanced integrity of outputs to the Payroll process
• Define terms and responsibilities in the Service Level Agreements
• Lead projects as required such as vendor onboarding, process improvement and standardisation of payroll systems.
• Liaising with management and employees regarding pay enquiries
• Review and preparation and reconciliation of monthly General Ledger salary journals
• Review and preparation of annual benefit in kind reporting by jurisdiction
• Ensure timely tax year end reporting and compliance across each payroll jurisdiction
• Review reconciliation of payment summaries
• Pays employees by directing the production and issuance of paychecks or electronic transfers to bank accounts.

Qualification & Requirements

Key Competencies

• Excellent knowledge of India Payroll systems and processes
• Proven payroll management experience
• Knowledge of India PF and payroll compliances and India labour laws
• Legislative and award compliance – ability to interpret relevant India awards and legislation
• Problem solving ability, analytical and numeracy skills
• Demonstrated team leadership ability
• Strong English (oral and written) language skills with ability to communicate effectively on the telephone, and in group and face-to-face, one-on-one settings
• Customer focussed and business oriented
• Proactive, hands-on with can-do approach
• Accurate, with attention to detail
• A positive, flexible and proactive approach

Experience and Qualifications

• Graduate Degree in Accounting with 8-10 years of relevant India payroll management experience
• Previous experience in managing India Payroll processes
• Certification in India Labour Laws and Indian tax system preferred
• Excellent Communication Skills

Systems Skills

• Strong Microsoft Excel and Access skills
• Proficient with other Microsoft Office tools
• HR Workday experience is preferred

Benefits

• Pension plan: A non-contributory pension plan to help ensure your future is a secure one
• Medical care: We provide private medical insurance
• Risk insurance: We’ll help you with risk insurance – for life cover and long-term disability
• Competitive base salaries: Our competitive salaries reflect your experience level and responsibilities of your role
• Annual bonus: All our employees have the opportunity to earn a performance-related annual bonus
• Phantom Shares: High-performing employees in senior and critical positions can be included in our Phantom Share Award Programme
• Retail Discounts: At major high street retailers, supermarkets and gym memberships
• Subsidised canteens: Available in some offices, so you don’t have to break the bank for lunch