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, Qualified Tax, Labour Welfare Fund (LWF)
Manage annual activities such as investment declaration windows, proof verification, tax recalculations, year-end processing, and true-ups.
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📌 Sr. Payroll Specialist (Hyderabad)
🏢 S&P Global
📍 Hyderabad