The Role
Manage and improve multi-country APAC payroll operations, implement payroll processes and standards, resolve service requests and errors, ensure compliance and audit readiness, collaborate on payroll projects, provide system expertise (Workday), and drive process improvement and automation.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Description Summary
Step into a role where your expertise in payroll processes drives meaningful impact. As a Payroll Expert, you’ll support the development of principles and guidelines that shape how we operate, while coordinating data analysis and evaluation to enhance service delivery. Your contributions will help implement and continuously improve payroll systems that support our people and APAC countries.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Support operational execution of payroll strategic objectives across teams and regions.
- Implement payroll processes and standards with guidance and training for users.
- Respond to payroll service requests and resolve issues or escalate as needed.
- Track and troubleshoot service errors, analyzing messages and user queries.
- Evaluate payroll services and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate on payroll-related projects at country or business unit level.
- Provide expert advice on payroll systems, compliance, and customer-focused solutions.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years payroll experience in full payroll cycle with experience in Taiwan (Main), Hong Kong and China countries.
- Professional fluency in written and spoken English and Chinese.
- Direct knowledge of country-specific payroll regulations and tax compliance for the APAC region.
- In depth knowledge and experience in Reconciliation & audit readiness, Vendor governance and Data privacy & payroll governance.
- Expertise in Workday & advanced Excel skills.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy, with the ability to manage payroll data, validations, reconciliations, and documentation with a high degree of precision.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to resolve payroll-related issues in a timely manner.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner with internal teams, vendors, and employees across multiple geographies and manage queries professionally.
- Process improvement and automation mindset.
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience troubleshooting service errors and resolving complex payroll queries.
- Strong proactive problem-solving skills in a customer-focused environment.
- Multi-country payroll experience other than Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.
- Experience with Workday integration
- Experience in Global/ MNC and complex & matrixed organizations
- Experience in leveraging AI to simplify people processes, reduce duplication, and shift team capacity toward higher impact, value adding work.
Skills Desired
Adverse Event Reporting System, Collaboration, Communication, Consulting Services, Curious Mindset, Data Analysis, Data Privacy, Dispute Resolution, Employee Experience, Error Analysis, HRIS (Human Resource Management System) (Inactive), Hr Operations (Hr Ops) (Inactive), HR Service Delivery, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management System, Human Resources (HR), Identity Access Management (IAM), Onboarding, Payroll, Process Analysis, Project Management, Sdm (Inactive), Service Request Management, Standards Development, User ManagementSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
- Minimum 5 years payroll experience in full payroll cycle with experience in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.
- Professional fluency in written and spoken English and Chinese.
- Direct knowledge of country-specific payroll regulations and tax compliance for the APAC region.
- In-depth knowledge and experience in reconciliation and audit readiness.
- Experience in vendor governance.
- Experience in data privacy and payroll governance.
- Expertise in Workday.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy managing payroll data, validations, reconciliations, and documentation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to resolve payroll-related issues.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management across multiple geographies and vendors.
- Process improvement and automation mindset.
- Experience troubleshooting service errors and resolving complex payroll queries.
- Multi-country payroll experience beyond Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.
- Experience with Workday integration.
- Experience in Global/MNC and complex, matrixed organizations.
- Experience leveraging AI to simplify people processes and automation.
Novartis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Novartis and has not been reviewed or approved by Novartis.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay and benefits are described as a strong overall package, supported by medical, dental, and vision insurance alongside FSAs/HSAs and disability and life coverage. Mental-health support is reinforced through an employee assistance program with psychological support and a network of mental health first aiders.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout element, with an automatic company contribution plus dollar-for-dollar matching in the 401(k). Additional retirement funding is described through an age-based defined contribution program and access to an employee share purchase plan discount.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are framed as robust, including a global minimum of paid parental leave for new parents following birth or adoption. Added supports include domestic partner coverage, dependent-care resources, and benefits such as adoption assistance and child/elder care options.
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The Company
What We Do
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.







