This is a remote position.
Objectives of this Role
The Payroll Consultant will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and timeliness in processing weekly and bi-weekly payroll while providing superior customer service in a professional and confidential manner. Primary responsibilities will include the validation of payroll wages paid and responding to inquiries from employees and location managers as well as acting as a liaison between the Company and third party professional consultants. The Payroll Consultant position must adhere to tight deadlines and requires an exceptional ability for time management and organization.
Responsibilities
- Ensure 100% error free delivery and respond to payroll related questions or issues in a timely manner
- Execute weekly/bi-weekly / Monthly payroll preparation and distribution of clientâs payroll in accordance with Labor Law regulations and policy of that country
- Serve as primary contact for employee resolutions
- Provide excellent customer service to ensure that a resolution is reached.
- Maintains payroll information by designing systems; directing the collection, calculation, and entering of data.
- Determines payroll liabilities by approving the calculation of employee country labour law, social security taxes, and employer's social security, unemployment, and workers compensation payments.
- Review, reconcile and balance time keeping data designated timekeeping systems for each pay period
- Review payroll to ensure accuracy and ensure payroll checklists and process controls are adhered to for each payroll cycle
- Provides payroll information by answering questions and requests.
- Complies with country, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.
- Maintains employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- supervise and co-ordinate activities of payroll staff
- Completes operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.
- Maintains payroll staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
- Maintains payroll staff job results by counseling and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Developing ad hoc financial and operational reporting as needed
- Internal & External Audit requirement needs to be adhered and resolve all query raised from the stake holders
- Reporting the security incident on the timely manner
- Any other responsibilities that may be assigned from time to time.
Requirements
Skills and Qualifications
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Experience 3-5 years processing the payrolls from a HRMS system (PS, SAP, Success Factor, Workday, etc.)
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Good in communication both verbal and written
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Hands on experience in processing payrolls in multi-city, at least 2 of the following countries must be included;
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- India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Delhi NCR
- other payroll country knowledge in Asia is an advantage.
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Have worked in a payroll outsourcing company previously
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Handle the team and train the team on timely manner
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Strong in Analytical skills and needs to have flair of numbers
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Strong taxation knowledge in India.
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Preparing concise documentation
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Has at least 3 successful payroll implementations in each one of the 2 countries mentioned above
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Able to audit the payrolls processed from a payroll system.
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Can document recurring payroll cycles in different countries, all the way from receiving input from client to dealing with country local consultants for handling statutory filing and payment.
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Can document country rules and regulations to be presented to clients.
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Can document sample calculations for new countries to be implemented in the payroll system.