About the Client: A leading diversified Indian organisation with a strong presence across large-scale infrastructure and multiple business verticals. The organisation is currently driving significant transformation, expansion, and capability-building initiatives across its businesses.
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER - PAYROLL
Requirements:
- End-to-end Payroll Management: Own and manage the complete payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing.
- HRIS / HRMS: Partner with HR to manage payroll, time and attendance systems and ensure employee data is accurate and up to date.
- Finance and Accounting: Work closely with Accounting and Treasury on payroll accounting, GL posting, reconciliations and payroll-related payments.
- Payroll SME: Act as a subject matter expert on payroll, labor and workforce-related matters.
- Team Leadership: Lead, develop and mentor a large payroll team with a robust employee/customer-service orientation.
- Compliance and Controls: Ensure payroll policies, regulations, controls and procedures are implemented,
documented and followed.
- Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to standardize, automate, harmonize and centralize payroll processes.
- Systems and Transformation: Partner with HR, Finance, vendors and technology teams to improve payroll systems and solutions.
- SLA Management: Establish and manage SLAs and service-performance metrics with internal and external stakeholders.
- Project Management: Lead strategic payroll initiatives and transformation projects.
- Stakeholder Management: Work closely with HR, Finance, Accounting, Treasury, department heads, vendors and internal audit.
- Training: Develop and implement training programs for payroll teams on systems and processes.
- Audit: Partner with Internal Audit to test and strengthen payroll controls.
- Budget and Governance: Ensure payroll activities comply with internal policies, accounting requirements and budgetary controls.