– Senior Manager – HR Operations & Payroll

Roles and Responsibilities

- Lead the HR Operations and Payroll function, ensuring efficient, compliant, and employee-centric service delivery across the employee lifecycle.
- Own end-to-end payroll governance, ensuring timely and accurate payroll processing through effective oversight of payroll inputs, validations, reconciliations, statutory compliance, and vendor management.
- Drive adherence to service levels (SLAs), operational KPIs, and process quality standards across HR Operations and Payroll.
- Ensure the integrity, governance, and quality of employee master data across HR systems through strong data management practices and periodic audits.
- Partner with internal stakeholders on budgeting, headcount governance and statutory reporting.
- Lead internal and external audits related to HR Operations and Payroll and ensure timely closure of audit observations.

Desired Candidate Profile

- MBA / PGDM or equivalent postgraduate qualification in Human Resources.
- 8–12 years of experience in HR Shared Services and Payroll, with at least 2-4 years of experience leading teams.
- Strong experience managing outsourced payroll operations in a large, multi-location organization.




- Good understanding of payroll regulations, statutory compliance, taxation, and labour law requirements.
- Hands-on experience with leading HRMS platforms.
- Demonstrated stakeholder management skills with the ability to partner effectively with HR, Finance, IT, Audit, and business leadership.

Diversity and inclusion are core to who we are at Publicis. We’re committed to building a culture that celebrates and supports our wonderfully diverse employee group – whatever their age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity. Our diversity fuels creativity and innovation, bringing us closer to our people and audiences, while creating an workplace where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and candidates throughout the application process. Publicis is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fair and equitable employment practices and to making employment decisions without discrimination based on any characteristic protected by applicable law.

📌 Human Resources Operations Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 PUBLICIS GROUPE
📍 Bengaluru