Payroll Implementation Associate

About Interloop

Interloop is a People Process and Technology consulting firm building the operating systems behind ambitious businesses. With offices in India and the UAE and seven consecutive years of profitable growth we work with founders and CXOs across startups SMBs and mid-market enterprises.

We work across two critical business processes people productivity (HR Ops) and revenue growth (Revenue Ops) and layer technology transformation on top. Think of us as the full-stack consulting partner for organizations ready to modernize how they operate.

Were now evolving from a services firm into a product-led organization building proprietary solutions for scale. For the people joining us at this stage the trajectory is rare CXO-level exposure real ownership and a front-row seat to how a business actually grows.

The Role

Payroll is the one process a company cannot get wrong. As a Payroll Implementation Associate youll set up Zoho Payroll for client organizations designing salary structures configuring statutory compliance migrating data from spreadsheets and legacy systems and running the first payroll cycles until the numbers reconcile to the rupee. Youll then train the clients team to run it themselves. Precision work real stakes and a client who notices when you get it right.

Implementation & Configuration:

Set up Zoho Payroll for client organizations org structure pay schedules salary components and approval workflows

Design salary structures: earnings deductions reimbursements and perquisites mapped to each clients CTC philosophy

Configure statutory components PF ESI Professional Tax TDS and LWF correctly for each state and entity

Migration & Data:

Migrate payroll data from Excel and legacy systems employee masters salary history tax declarations and loan balances

Clean validate and reconcile data before go-live; run parallel payroll cycles to prove the numbers match

Payroll Runs & Support:

Hand-hold the first two to three payroll cycles post go-live arrears proration LOP revisions and full-and-final settlements

Investigate variances to the rupee and fix root causes not symptoms

Integration & Ecosystem:

Connect Zoho Payroll with Zoho People - attendance leave and LOP flowing cleanly into every pay run

Training Handover & Documentation:

Train client HR and finance teams to run payroll independently and confidently

Document every configuration - salary structure sheets compliance registers and process notes the next person can pick up

What were looking for

Experience

02 years in payroll HR operations accounting or a numbers-heavy role - freshers welcome

BBA or an HR / finance-adjacent background preferred - what matters most is genuine comfort with numbers

Exposure to any payroll or HRMS platform is a plus - Zoho Payroll experience is a head-start not a requirement

Skills

Strong numeric aptitude - percentages proration reconciliation and CTC arithmetic should feel natural

Working knowledge of salary components - basic HRA allowances deductions and how a CTC breaks down

Awareness of statutory compliance - PF ESI PT and TDS at a working level; depth is trainable

Excel proficiency - lookups pivots and clean data handling are daily tools not nice-to-haves

Attention to detail - payroll errors are visible to every employee of the client; you treat that seriously

Benefits