APAC Payroll Specialist

The APAC Payroll Specialist is responsible for managing payroll operations for approximately 150 employees across multiple countries in APAC region inclusive of Australia, China, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan ensuring accurate and timely payments while adhering to local laws and regulations. This role involves processing payroll, managing vendors, employee data, handling tax obligations, and potentially assisting with audit responses.

Requirements 'must have'

• • Strong knowledge of payroll tax filings and payments.
• Manage payroll, including bi-weekly and/or monthly payroll, month end close processes, quarter and year end support.
• Payroll delivery across APAC in a smooth manner by ensuring activities are undertaken to adhere to committed deadlines.
• Monitor and ensure the maintenance of country-specific knowledge repositories pertaining to your region which will be relied upon collaboration with multiple teams across the organization.
• Review business processes and work towards continually improving delivery and enhancing customer satisfaction.
• Respond to and resolve payroll issues.
• Experience working with multiple payroll vendors, and various processing methods
• You will be required to undertake pricing negotiations, with partners, where required.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with an emphasis on tact and diplomacy
• Ability to work well independently as well as part of a team and matrix structure bringing a sense of urgency to the tasks at hand.
• Must be capable of working collaboratively with others, creating partnerships with vendors, management, colleagues, and the rest of the Human Resources function.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to handle numerous projects simultaneously, while maintaining high accuracy and attention to detail.
• Maintaining high confidential information with the utmost integrity is non-negotiable.
• Reporting and Analysis. You will work on complex projects, including calculation updates, special reports, tax amendments, company set up, troubleshooting, and more. You will research historical data, determine adjustments, and use online tools to make corrections.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Human Resources, Accounting or related field.
• Strong technical proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, with specific advanced competency in Excel, as well as general competency in Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.
• Requires 5+ years of relevant payroll processing with demonstrated knowledge of the regulatory environment for payroll, leaves and time off.
• Must be bi-lingual with English language proficiency