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Job Title: Manager, Payroll
Description: In this role, You'll lead end-to-end payroll operations across India, South Asia, and MEA, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery while managing regional payroll teams and vendors. Drive payroll governance, compliance, controls, reconciliations, process improvements, and transformation initiatives while partnering with HR, Finance, Tax, Technology, and external stakeholders. This role aligns with the industry title as Payroll manager, Senior Payroll Manager, Regional Payroll Manager or Payroll & Compliance Manager.
About Pearson
At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We also create incredible assessment clinical and qualified tests to help people to growth in their personal and professional lives.



We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large, and small.
JOB PURPOSE
As a Payroll Manager at Pearson, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of payroll across South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka) and the Middle East & Africa (MEA), ensuring payroll is processed accurately, on time, and in compliance with local legislation and company policies. You will provide leadership to a geographically dispersed payroll team, serve as the primary contact for payroll-related matters within the region, and build strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
You will be respons

📌 Manager, Payroll (Bengaluru)
🏢 Pearson
📍 Bengaluru