Payroll Coordinator - 2 Yrs - 6 Yrs - India Payroll & Statutory Compliance

Job Description

About the Role:
As a Payroll Coordinator, you will use your extensive payroll knowledge and advanced skills to solve complex payroll challenges. You will lead the payroll execution team and ensure all payroll activities are compliant and efficient. Your role contributes significantly to the mitigation of payroll risks and optimization of payroll processes.

Responsibilities:
• Assist in the end-to-end India payroll process, including data collection, validation, and payroll inputs.
• Review employee changes such as hires, terminations, salary revisions, promotions, transfers, and leave records.
• Coordinate with payroll vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure timely payroll processing.
• Validate payroll reports, identify discrepancies, and support payroll reconciliations.
• Prepare and maintain payroll documentation, records, and audit evidence.
• Support statutory compliance activities such as tax, social security, provident fund, pension, and other regulatory filings.
• Assist with Full & Final (F&F) settlements for terminated employees.
• Respond to employee payroll queries related to salary, deductions, taxes, benefits, and pay slips.
• Support payroll system testing, enhancements, and process improvement initiatives
• Participate in payroll audits and provide supporting documentation as required.

Skills:
• Expert Payroll Processing: Mastery of payroll operations and systems.
• Compliance Expertise: Deep understanding of payroll regulatory requirements.
• Advanced Problem-Solving: Tackling complex payroll issues effectively.
• Analytical Skills: Generating and interpreting payroll data reports.
• Technology Utilization: Ensuring payroll systems are up-to-date and efficient.
• Communication Skills: Competent interfacing with multiple departments.
• Requires extensive knowledge and has advanced skills and expertise in operational or administrative processes and activities
• Generates potential solutions to complex operational or administrative problems; looks beyond the immediate problem to the broader implications of actions or decisions
• Completes operational or administrative work with minimal supervision; may work autonomously without established procedures and practices
• Communicates important and/or sensitive information and negotiates with higher levels in other departments and/or outside organizations
• May coordinate the work of others, but is not a supervisor

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