Payroll SME (Mexico & Colombia)

At GSK, we are committed to delivering excellence and innovation in everything we do. The Payroll SME (Mexico & Colombia) will play a critical role in ensuring compliance, accuracy, and efficiency in payroll operations across both countries. This role provides an exciting opportunity to lead key payroll activities, collaborate across functions, and contribute to our culture of continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

This role gives YOU the opportunity to lead crucial initiatives and progress YOUR career. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Manage accurate and timely payroll processing for employees in Mexico and Colombia, ensuring compliance with established controls, procedures, and standards.

• Ensure full compliance with local payroll tax regulations, including filing of tax returns, remittance of payroll taxes, and adherence to Mexico CFDI and Colombia “Nómina Electrónica” requirements.

• Review and reconcile payroll data, implementing quality assurance measures to minimize errors and discrepancies in calculations, deductions, and benefits.

• Collaborate with HR, Finance, and accounting teams to ensure seamless integration of payroll processes across business functions.

• Act as the primary point of contact for employee payroll inquiries, providing exceptional customer service and resolving issues promptly and accurately.

• Support audits and inspections by preparing documentation and responding to inquiries from auditors or regulatory agencies.

Qualifications & Experience:

Basic Qualifications:
The following qualifications are essential for this role:

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or related field.

• 4-5 years of payroll tax and payroll process experience in multinational companies, specifically in Mexico and/or Colombia.

• Expertise in Mexico’s CFDI and Colombia’s “Nómina Electrónica.” Proficiency in payroll systems, ERP platforms, and SAP for payroll management.

• Intermediate to advanced English communication skills (written and spoken).

• Microsoft Excel proficiency at an intermediate to advanced level for data analysis, forecasting, and reconciliation.

At GSK, we are committed to delivering excellence and innovation in everything we do. The Payroll SME (Mexico & Colombia) will play a critical role in ensuring compliance, accuracy, and efficiency in payroll operations across both countries. This role provides an exciting opportunity to lead key payroll activities, collaborate across functions, and contribute to our culture of continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

This role gives YOU the opportunity to lead crucial initiatives and progress YOUR career. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Manage accurate and timely payroll processing for employees in Mexico and Colombia, ensuring compliance with established controls, procedures, and standards.

• Ensure full compliance with local payroll tax regulations, including filing of tax returns, remittance of payroll taxes, and adherence to Mexico CFDI and Colombia “Nómina Electrónica” requirements.

• Review and reconcile payroll data, implementing quality assurance measures to minimize errors and discrepancies in calculations, deductions, and benefits.

• Collaborate with HR, Finance, and accounting teams to ensure seamless integration of payroll processes across business functions.

• Act as the primary point of contact for employee payroll inquiries, providing exceptional customer service and resolving issues promptly and accurately.

• Support audits and inspections by preparing documentation and responding to inquiries from auditors or regulatory agencies.

Qualifications & Experience:

Basic Qualifications:
The following qualifications are essential for this role:

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or related field.

• 4-5 years of payroll tax and payroll process experience in multinational companies, specifically in Mexico and/or Colombia.

• Expertise in Mexico’s CFDI and Colombia’s “Nómina Electrónica.” Proficiency in payroll systems, ERP platforms, and SAP for payroll management.

• Intermediate to advanced English communication skills (written and spoken).

• Microsoft Excel proficiency at an intermediate to advanced level for data analysis, forecasting, and reconciliation.

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GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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