Payroll Advisor

Job Title

Payroll Advisor

Job Description Summary

Responsible for end-to-end payroll management, ensuring accurate and timely salary processing for employees while maintaining statutory compliance, addressing employee queries, and supporting audits. The role requires strong attention to detail, confidentiality, and coordination with internal stakeholders and external partners.

Job Description

Job Summary

The Payroll Advisor will manage end-to-end payroll operations for the India entity, ensuring timely and accurate salary processing, statutory compliance, and excellent employee service. This role demands attention to detail, organizational skills, and effective coordination with internal teams, vendors, and compliance partners, playing a key role in supporting the India Payroll Manager.

About the Role:

Monthly Payroll Processing – Verify payroll inputs (attendance, LOPs, bonuses, new hires, exits), check payroll calculations, and validate outputs before processing. Statutory Compliance & Filing – Manage EPF, ESI, PT, LWF, and TDS deductions/payments; provide accurate data for statutory filings (e.g., ECR, Form 24Q) within deadlines. Employee Query Resolution – Address queries related to salary, tax, and reimbursements promptly. Payroll Reconciliations – Reconcile payroll with finance, GL, and bank payment files. Audit Support & Documentation – Prepare payroll reports and maintain audit trails for internal/external audits. Full & Final Settlement – Process exits, including notice pay, leave encashment, and other dues. Payslip & Form 16 Distribution – Generate and distribute monthly payslips and annual Form 16s. Income Tax Declarations & Proof Verification – Manage employee tax declarations and coordinate year-end investment proof collection for accurate TDS. Vendor Coordination – Liaise with payroll vendors, banks, and compliance partners to ensure smooth payroll delivery.

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, HR, or related field (preferred).
• 2–5 years of payroll processing experience, preferably in a multi-location environment.
• Understanding of Indian payroll laws, statutory compliance, and tax regulations.
• Proficiency in payroll software (e.g., ADP, SAP, Workday) and MS Excel.

Work Environment

This role works closely with the India Payroll Manager and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth payroll operations, compliance adherence, and high employee satisfaction.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;
• Career development and a promote from within culture;
• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

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