Payroll Senior Specialist

Overview

Senior Payroll Specialist role supporting payroll operations across an assigned regional, multi-entity, or multi-market payroll portfolio with greater independence and complexity, providing day-to-day technical guidance to colleagues. No budget ownership and no direct reports.

What you'll do

• Coordinate end-to-end payroll activities through approved systems and external providers for an assigned portfolio.
• Validate complex earnings, deductions, taxes, statutory contributions, benefits, equity-related transactions, time data, and employee changes.
• Perform reconciliations, controls, corrections, off-cycle transactions, and year-end support with increased independence.
• Prepare and maintain audit-ready evidence, documentation, and process records.
• Investigate complex issues, identify root causes, implement corrective actions within authority, and escalate material risks where appropriate.
• Serve as an operational contact for payroll providers.
• Partner with Payroll COE, HR, Finance, Total Rewards, Mobility, Technology, Risk, Audit, and other stakeholders to resolve issues, support service quality, and ensure follow-through.
• Use approved digital, AI, and automation tools responsibly with human review and validation.
• Support system changes, testing, transitions, implementations, and process updates related to payroll and connected processes.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate recurring work and reduce manual effort or recurring errors.
• Provide day-to-day guidance, peer coaching, and knowledge sharing to colleagues.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in HR, Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Typically 3–5 years of payroll experience, ideally in regional, multi-entity, or international operations.
• Strong knowledge of payroll operations, controls, reconciliations, documentation, tax and statutory support, and confidentiality.
• Experience of outsourced payroll providers.
• Confidence working with payroll data, reports, and structured datasets.
• Fluent English.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, service, prioritization, and communication skills, with sound judgment in more complex payroll situations.

Nice to have

• Payroll certification is advantageous.
• Experience with payroll systems and digital tools such as Workday, ADP, SAP Payroll, ServiceNow, or equivalent.
• Additional relevant languages.

Details

• Location: IND - Bengaluru.
• Work mode: Hybrid.
• Employment type: Full time, regular employee.