Payroll Specialist (GSC India)
Reporting to: Payroll Lead / Global Payroll Operations
Location: India (GSC)
The Senior Payroll Specialist owns payroll delivery for assigned countries, acting as the primary interface between Vertiv and external payroll vendors. This role carries payroll sign‑off responsibility, ensures statutory compliance, manages escalations, and supports audit and SOX requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end‑to‑end payroll delivery for assigned EMEA and AsiaPac countries
- Act as the primary governance contact for payroll vendors, ensuring SLA adherence and issue resolution
- Perform detailed review and final validation of payroll outputs, including:
- Gross‑to‑net calculations
- Statutory taxes, social security, and benefits
- Country‑specific compliance items
- Provide payroll sign‑off approval prior to payment and posting
- Manage complex payroll changes and escalations beyond analyst level
- Serve as RSC lead for Asia countries, coordinating execution, issue resolution, and country‑specific requirements
- Lead payroll reconciliations with Finance and support GL posting reviews
- Support SOX controls, internal audits, and external audits, ensuring complete documentation and evidence
- Coach and review work performed by Payroll Analysts
- Drive process improvements, vendor performance reviews, and standardisation initiatives
- Support payroll transitions, vendor changes, and system implementations
Key Requirements
- 5–8 years of experience in multi‑country payroll (EMEA and/or AsiaPac)
- Strong working knowledge of labour law, statutory compliance, and payroll controls
- Experience working with outsourced payroll vendors (ADP, SD Worx, or equivalent)
- Proven ability to manage vendor performance and country responsibilities independently
- Strong stakeholder management and escalation handling skills
Skills & Tools
- Advanced payroll systems and vendor platforms
- HRIS / HCM systems (Oracle HCM preferred)
- Advanced MS Excel (reconciliations, variance analysis)
- Strong understanding of payroll controls, SOX, and audit requirements
Languages
- English – Mandatory
- One or more regional languages – Strongly preferred (depending on country portfolio)
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About the TeamSkills Required
- 5-8 years of experience in multi-country payroll (EMEA and/or AsiaPac)
- Strong working knowledge of labour law, statutory compliance, and payroll controls
- Experience working with outsourced payroll vendors (ADP, SD Worx, or equivalent)
- Proven ability to manage vendor performance and country responsibilities independently
- Payroll sign-off and final validation experience (gross-to-net, taxes, benefits, country-specific items)
- Experience supporting SOX controls, internal and external audits, and documentation requirements
- Advanced Microsoft Excel (reconciliations, variance analysis)
- HRIS / HCM systems experience
- Oracle HCM experience
- English language fluency
- One or more regional languages
What We Do
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
