Job Title: Senior Payroll Specialist

Location: Bangalore, India

Department: Service Delivery

Reports To: Manager – Service Delivery

Role Responsibilities

- Oversee complete monthly payroll processing for India, ensuring accuracy and on-time delivery.
- Gather, verify, and process payroll inputs such as new hires, exits, salary revisions, bonuses, incentives, allowances, deductions, arrears, and Loss of Pay.
- Prepare and validate payroll registers covering earnings, deductions, taxes, and net pay, including variance analysis.
- Handle and validate Full & Final settlements, including leave encashment, notice pay/recovery, gratuity, incentives, and other applicable payments or deductions.
- Ensure correct calculation and deduction of Provident Fund (PF) contributions for both employees and employers.
- Manage PF portal tasks such as new employee registrations, exits, and termination updates.
- Prepare, validate, and submit monthly PF ECR filings, challans, payments, and reconciliations within statutory deadlines.
- Oversee ESIC portal operations, including enrollment, ESI number generation, and ESI card issuance.
- Calculate ESI contributions and ensure accurate statutory submissions, payments, and reconciliations.
- Compute and process Professional Tax (PT) as per state-specific slabs and requirements.
- Handle PT portal activities, including challan generation and payments.
- Manage Labour Welfare Fund (LWF) calculations, contributions, payments, and state-specific submissions.
- Calculate employee Income Tax / TDS on salary, factoring in applicable tax regimes, declarations, exemptions, deductions, and taxable income.
- Manage employee tax declarations, investment-proof processing,



and related payroll tax adjustments.
- Handle employee reimbursements, proof verification, and processing.
- Support preparation, validation, reconciliation, and timely filing of quarterly Form 24Q.
- Perform year-end payroll tax reconciliation and support accurate preparation and issuance of Form 16.
- Manage TRACES portal activities for tax adjustments, gross salary corrections, and merging of Form 16 Part A & B.
- Ensure all payroll-related statutory payments and submissions are completed accurately and on time.
- Monitor changes in India payroll and statutory regulations, keeping payroll calculations and processes compliant.
- Maintain accurate payroll and statutory records, supporting documents, challans, returns, and reconciliation reports for audit and compliance purposes.
- Resolve employee queries related to salary calculations, payslips, tax/TDS, PF, ESI, PT, LWF, Form 16, and Full & Final settlements.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

- Degree holder in any discipline.
- Minimum 4 years of experience handling end-to-end India payroll.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, SUMIFS, reconciliation techniques, and data validation.
- Proven ability to independently manage end-to-end India payroll.
- Solid hands-on experience with statutory calculations, payments, reconciliations, and submissions.
- Solid analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to meet strict payroll deadlines.
- Experience with payroll systems such as Zoho, Keka, greytHR, Saral, or similar is an advantage.
- Multi-national and expat payroll experience is a plus.

📌 Senior Payroll & Statutory Compliance Specialist India Payroll (Bengaluru)
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📍 Bengaluru