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Global Payroll Manager (Payroll Head AMEA, Manufacturing MNC)

Thane Permanent View Job Description
Lead end-to-end payroll operations across India, Singapore, and other AMEA markets, ensuring timely payroll delivery, statutory compliance, robust controls, vendor governance, and audit readiness.This individual contributor role requires strong multi-country payroll expertise, with hands-on Singapore payroll experience being mandatory.
  • Lead multi-country payroll across AMEA markets
  • High-impact regional role with global exposure

About Our Client

  • Our client is one of the leading multinational organizations with a significant international footprint and established operations across multiple global markets
  • The company has an established presence in India and offers employees the opportunity to work within a highly international, matrixed environment.



Job Description

  • Owning end-to-end payroll administration for India and coordinating payroll delivery across Singapore and other AMEA markets.
  • Ensuring accurate and timely completion of payroll inputs, validations, approvals, reconciliation, and employee payments.
  • Maintaining compliance with country-specific payroll calendars, statutory requirements, cut-off dates, internal controls, and documentation standards.
  • Partnering with Finance on payroll funding, accounting inputs, cost allocation, reconciliations, statutory remittances and reporting.
  • Managing external payroll vendors, including SLAs, delivery quality, escalations, governance reviews and process improvements.
  • Overseeing payroll activities across the employee lifecycle, including new joiners, transfers, employee-data changes, benefits inputs, exits, and full-and-final settlements.
  • Maintaining accurate and audit-ready payroll registers, approvals, reports, and statutory-compliance documentation.
  • Representing the payroll function during internal audits, external audits, statutory inspections, and management reviews.
  • Identifying payroll risks, compliance concerns, and control gaps, and implementing suitable corrective and preventive measures.
  • Driving continuous improvement across payroll SOPs, dashboards, checklists, exception tracking, and control mechanisms.

The Successful Applicant

  • Bring 8 to 12 years of payroll experience, including responsibility for end-to-end payroll operations.
  • Have hands-on Singapore payroll experience, which is a mandatory requirement for the role.
  • Demonstrate strong knowledge of payroll controls, statutory compliance, reconciliations, audit requirements and payroll accounting.
  • Have experience managing third-party payroll vendors, SLAs, escalations and governance processes.

What's on Offer

  • Opportunity to work within a well-established multinational and highly matrixed environment.
  • Competitive compensation



Quote job ref
JN-092026-7106545

Job summary

Function
Human Resources
Sub Sector
HR Payroll
What is your area of specialisation?
Industrial / Manufacturing
Location
Thane
Job Type
Permanent
Job Reference
JN-092026-7106545

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