Senior Payroll Accounting Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end payroll processing through external vendors for India and assigned global entities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and SLA adherence. - Act as the primary liaison with payroll vendors, coordinating payroll calendars, cut-offs, and sign-offs with HR and Finance. - Review payroll outputs including salary calculations, incentives, arrears, statutory deductions, and final settlements. - Ensure accurate payroll accounting, including payroll journals, accruals, reconciliations, and support for month-end and year-end closures. - Coordinate salary disbursements, statutory payments, and third-party payments with finance and treasury teams. - Ensure statutory and regulatory compliance and support global payroll compliance through vendor and stakeholder coordination. - Support statutory filings, audits (internal and external), and timely closure of audit observations. - Operate within a shared services payroll model, driving process standardization, automation, and continuous improvement. - Partner with HR, Finance, Tax, and Legal teams to resolve payroll issues and manage employee payroll queries with confidentiality and accuracy. Qualifications Required:

• Strong understanding of Global payroll and accounting (US, EMEA and ASIA), salary components, taxation, and statutory compliances. - Working knowledge of global payroll concepts, including gross-to-net processing, statutory deductions, and country-specific variations. - Experience working with third-party payroll vendors and shared services payroll models. - Good understanding of payroll accounting, GL postings, and reconciliations. - Bachelors degree in Commerce, Finance, Accounting, or related discipline. - Experience in payroll operations, preferably in a shared services or multi-country environment. - Prior experience handling India payroll is mandatory; exposure to global payrolls is strongly preferred. Key Responsibilities: