Job Title:

Senior Global Payroll Analyst

Requisition ID:

R025552

Job Description:

You are a highly skilled senior payroll analyst, with expert and in-depth knowledge and experience in multiple aspects of payroll. You are responsible for all Payroll processing and allocated projects for your specific locations.

Working closely across multiple internal and external stakeholder groups, you are required to have a deep understanding on payroll processes on a global scale in order to provide best in practice advice, solutions and resolutions.

You will provide support to the wider payroll team and finance leaders to manage tasks and provide information to make informed business decisions. This role will report into the Senior Manager Payroll Operations, and part of the Global Payroll team.

Responsibilities:

• You are responsible for ensuring correct accounting via our payroll journals, maintaining accuracy of transactions to ensure high quality outputs are maintained at all times
• You are responsible for payroll compliance, efficiency & timeliness for your countries, with scope increasing in complexity and impact.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders (e.g. employees, HR teams etc.) and external payroll providers (e.g. EY, FESCO, CIIC), providing excellent customer service, payroll knowledge and meet all required SLAs.
• In your role, you maintain relationships with third party payroll and advisors, where you will further develop processes improvements to ensure the execution of payroll is delivered in an efficient and effective manner.
• Acts as the first point of contact for Payroll enquiries and cases for locations responsible for, work on cases of moderate scope where a deep dive analysis and in-depth reviews are needed to shape informed decisions or outcomes.
• Solves complex problems, takes a new perspective using existing solutions. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Deliver monthly and annual payroll returns and maintain their accuracy for all employees within remit.
• Lead projects impacting payroll where appropriate and acts as a key contact when payroll representation is needed outside of the team.
• Provide support on KPI and deliverables of payroll and the team.

• Create, amend and run recurring or ad hoc reports, checking data and formatting appropriately to ensure they are suitable for use by finance colleagues or the business
• You actively identify problems and opportunities, and champion solutions within payroll and to the wider Financial Shared Services team and wider stakeholders, including HR. This includes supporting team projects, maintaining policies and procedures for continual improvements and working with others to upskill on other SME areas across Payroll.

• Keep up to date on regulation changes for specific supported locations ensure accuracy and service to customers.
• Responsible for all employee income related tax reports, including monthly tax verification, annual tax filing process, and equity tax plan withhold and reporting.
• Familiar with expat payroll and tax related matters
• Own and maintain compliance on reports and data with all local regulations regarding payroll and benefits.

• Continuing to increase Subject Matter Expertise on your allocated locations, on all payroll and legislative matters, providing expertise support where needed to others.
• Work to a global standardized way across your team, to ensure cross country back up & peer checks are completed, highlighting issues and identifying trends.

Requirements

• Experienced in APAC Payroll Operations (3+ years) for mainland China, Taiwan, Korea.

Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Australian is a plus.

• Excellent payroll knowledge (e.g. statutory, legislative) in multiple countries (3+ years).
• Experienced in stock related work, such as the tax filing for RSU/ESPP, SAFE registration and ongoing payment in China
• Experienced with Payroll journals and cost analysis.
• Excellent communication skills, both internal & externally.
• Proven customer service skills
• Fluent in Chinese and English, both written and verbal. Other languages are a pre.
• Excellent IT skills – particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
• Have a proactive & positive attitude towards global payroll tasks, process improvements and changes.
• Ability to work well independently and demonstrate initiative with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work in a fast-moving, ambitious and matrix organization.
• High attention to detail, with accuracy as a consistent trademark for all deliverables.
• Excellent time planning skills
• Willing & able to learn, develop and focus on continuous improvement.

Nice to have

• Experienced with outsourced Payroll. EY PCC/IP tool experience is a plus.
• Experienced working in a project environment and contributing to payroll change projects.