Payroll Specialist

Overview

The Payroll Specialist supports day-to-day payroll operations for an assigned payroll portfolio, processing payroll inputs, performing routine validations and controls, maintaining documentation, and providing professional support to employees and stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Collect, review, and process approved payroll inputs, including employee changes, earnings, deductions, benefits, taxes, and time-related information.
• Perform routine validations, reconciliations, corrections, and off-cycle support activities in line with established procedures, and support statutory, year-end, and audit-related activities as assigned.
• Maintain payroll calendars, trackers, control evidence, case records, and process documentation.
• Follow established procedures and escalate exceptions, missing information, or control concerns within required timelines.
• Respond to routine payroll inquiries in a professional, timely, and employee-friendly manner, and coordinate with payroll providers and internal stakeholders to resolve assigned issues and ensure follow-through.
• Use approved digital, AI, and automation tools responsibly, with appropriate validation, data privacy, access controls, and human review.
• Support testing, adoption, exception monitoring, and user feedback for payroll-related system or process changes, and identify repetitive or rules-based activities that may be simplified or automated, sharing suggestions with senior team members.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience is desirable.
• Typically 1–3 years of payroll, HR operations, finance, or related experience.
• Working understanding of payroll inputs, controls, reconciliations, documentation, structured data handling, and confidentiality.
• Ability to learn payroll systems, reporting tools, case management platforms, and approved digital solutions.
• Fluent English.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, service orientation, and confidentiality, with the ability to work accurately within established procedures and deadlines.
• Demonstrates accountability, collaboration, curiosity, openness to learning, and a continuous improvement mindset.

Nice to have

• Payroll training or certification is advantageous.
• Additional relevant language skills are desirable.

Details

• Location: IND - Bengaluru.
• Work mode: Hybrid.
• Individual contributor role with no direct or indirect reports; no budget ownership.
• Employment type: Full time (Employee, Regular).