Designation- AGM Payroll

Reporting to - CoE

Team Size- 10-12 Members

Location- Hyderabad

Education- Graduate (B’com)/Post-Graduation(M’Com) with 15 years Plus, MBA – HR with 10 Years. Full time Qualification is a must.

Relevant Experience:

• At least 15 Years’ experience in handling end to end payroll processing.  Should have handled more than 10000 employee payroll processing. 7 to 8 yrs. exp as Payroll Manager including 7 or more years of financial management experience.
• Knowledge of applicable statutory components
• Expert knowledge of multi-state payroll, payroll tax rules and regulations in India
• Knowledge and demonstrated experience with enterprise SF HCM/Payroll applications would be desired.
• Significant progressively responsible experience in a similar role within a fast-paced environment
• Highly Analytical – comfortable with forecasting, and analyzing business performance, and reforecasting based on trends.
• Experience working with Successfactors is a must.

Payroll:-

• Partner with Human Resources in working with HRMS/HRIS, managing the full life-cycle implementation of the payroll, time and attendance systems and to ensure employee records are current and accurate.
• Partner with Accounting and Treasury to verify that all payroll payments are properly recorded in the General Ledger, that all payroll-related accounts are reconciled properly, and that all payments are reflected accurately on each employee’s record.
• Seen as a subject matter expert on all labor and workload-related issues.
• Coordinate and manage entire payroll function.
• Develop, lead and mentor a large payroll team that is customer service centric to our employees and business partners.
• Enforce established payroll related policies and regulations.
• Create and implement training for team members on use of payroll system.
• Negotiates Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with internal and external stakeholders, establishes customer and service-center performance requirements.
• Critically review and analyze current practices and identify process improvements leading to best-practice operations.
• Lead process improvement events and activities to ensure policy & processes are harmonized, automated and efficiently being executed on a regular basis.
• Ensure the proper controls and procedures are in place, documented and followed working with internal audit in testing the effectiveness of the controls.
• Partner with customers, vendors and other technical expertise to ensure payroll systems and solutions meet the company’s needs and strategic goals.
• Act as project manager for various strategic initiatives to continually improve, harmonize and centralize payroll setup and activities.
• Communicate actively with department heads, HR and Finance to ensure proper compliance with internal and external policies and coding from a budgetary perspective.
• Manage regular preparation of relevant reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year-end reports periodic reports of earnings, taxes, and deductions.
• Partner with Analytics Manager who supports Desktop Payroll to run various analyses and determine what type of reports to run to provide insights into what’s going on with the business.
• Manage and ensure the weekly, biweekly & monthly disbursement of multi-state payroll of 7k+ employees for multiple Sectors across PAN India.

• Certify systems are established to optimize workflow, meet the needs of the payroll rules as dictated by internal policies and collective bargaining agreement, maximize technical efficiencies, and secure data.

• Demonstrate technical expertise on the automated systems and processes in designated areas of responsibility.
• Manage the governance, functional, and operational aspects and processes associated with an integrated payroll system.
• Strategy and Roadmap – Work closely with the Payroll Solution Architecture team to partner on strategic opportunities and enabling technologies.
• Lead and facilitate the integration of the payroll system ensuring it meets business requirements help to expeditiously resolve system issues.
• Lead the integration of any newly acquired/added companies into the payroll system.

Policy and Process:-

• Monitor the input calendar and ensure necessary controls are implemented.

Process Improvement:

• Identify gaps in current processes and ensure implementation of robust processes for operational Excellence and 100% Audit compliance.
• Develop SOPs/Process Maps/Process Guides for the existing activities under the purview of Payroll department.

Team Management & Development:

• Set clear goals and expectations from the team and standardize benchmarks for performance review.
• Ensure periodic review of team members and give objective performance feedback.
• Ensure 100% training of team members on all Payroll process, SAP and Successfactors related matters.
• Mentor the team members to add value to their day-to-day work.
• Implement Employee Engagement Action points as planned to enhance engagement levels and reduce attrition.

Stakeholder Management:

• Engage with key stakeholders of all business to understand the Payroll needs and address issues as and when required.
• Educate stakeholders in case of inaccurate/ process non-compliance.
• Engage with BHR/CHROs for payroll issues, review and have action plans for early closure

Audits & Governance:

• Liaise with auditors and manage payroll tax audits
• Provide timely & accurate inputs to Auditors to facilitate payroll audits and other audits as mandated by the management.
• Develop and implement processes and systems to address governance matters

MIS/Dashboards & Reports:

• Prepare MIS/Dashboards & reports pertaining to Payroll area for review meetings to enable management to take timely decisions.