Job Description

  • Regional Operations & Leadership: Lead end-to-end regional payroll execution across assigned APAC entities, ensuring high accuracy, SLA compliance, and operational excellence.

  • Vendor & Service Management: Oversee outsourced payroll service providers, monitoring KPI/SLA metrics, service delivery, and performance governance.

  • Payroll Accounting Oversight: Partner with the finance team to ensure accurate payroll GL journal entries, complex balance sheet reconciliations, month-end variance analysis, and payroll tax accounting.

  • Governance & Regulatory Compliance: Ensure full compliance with regional statutory requirements, tax regulations, local labor laws, internal control frameworks, and audit standards.

  • Process Transformation: Drive continuous improvement, process automation, system enhancements, and regional standardization initiatives.

  • Stakeholder Management: Collaborate effectively with HR Business Partners, Regional Finance, Treasury, Tax, and corporate leadership.


Job Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related discipline.

  • 6–8+ years of progressive experience in end-to-end payroll operations and payroll accounting within a Shared Services Center (SSC) or multinational corporation (MNC).

  • Proven track record managing multi-country APAC payroll operations and vendor governance.

  • Strong technical background in payroll GL accounting, financial reconciliation, and statutory compliance frameworks.

  • Excellent command of business English (written and spoken).

  • Proficiency in major ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft) and modern payroll/HRIS software.