ABOUT THE ROLE:

Grade Level (for internal use):

09

S&P; Global Corporate

The Role: Senior Payroll Specialist

About the Role: The Senior Payroll Specialist is responsible for end-to-end
ownership of India payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and fully
compliant payroll delivery across assigned India entities. The role operates
within S&P; Global’s Global Pay Services operating model and provides deep
subject-matter expertise, statutory governance support, and control oversight
for India payroll.

This role acts as a senior escalation point for complex payroll, statutory, and
compliance matters, partners closely with People Services, Finance, Tax,
Mobility, and external payroll vendors, and plays a key role in payroll
governance, risk mitigation, process optimization, and transformation
initiatives, without direct people management responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

Payroll Operations – India

* Own and execute end-to-end monthly India payroll processing across legal
entities, including regular payroll, bonuses, off-cycle payrolls, leave
encashments,



arrears, recoveries, and final settlements.
* Perform detailed payroll reviews, variance analysis, exception handling, and
sign-off readiness checks prior to approvals.
* Ensure payroll activities are completed within defined cut-off timelines,
approval controls, and governance frameworks.
* Independently resolve complex payroll exceptions and root-cause issues with
significant employee, financial, or compliance impact.

Statutory Compliance & Governance – India

* Own compliance execution for all Indian payroll statutory requirements,
including:
* Income Tax (TDS on salary, projections, quarterly withholding tax returns,
Annual withholding tax forms etc)
* Provident Fund (EPFO – UAN lifecycle, ECR filings, exits, contributions)
* ESIC, Skilled Tax, Labour Welfare Fund (LWF)
* Manage annual activities such as investment declaration windows, proof
verification, tax recalculations, year-end processin

📌 Sr. Payroll Specialist (Gurugram)
🏢 S&P Global
📍 Gurugram