Specialist, Payroll - India (based in Malaysia)

As a Payroll Specialist, you will be responsible for managing payroll processes for clients' employees, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely distribution of salaries. Your role includes master data maintenance, monthly processing, payslip generation, and addressing employee queries. Depending on focus, additional responsibilities may involve supervising teams, managing tax obligations, or contributing to in-house payroll initiatives. Your expertise in payroll regulations, system proficiency, organizational skills, and effective communication are key to success in this dynamic position, making your contributions vital to the efficiency and compliance of our payroll processes.

Roles & Responsibilities

Payroll Processing

• Ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll for clients' employees (“employees”) every pay period.
• Ensure client’s employee's data is correctly updated in payroll system
• Compute employees’ net pay based on time records, benefits, taxes and other relevant items.
• Performs salary disbursement through direct transfers to employees’ bank accounts
• Ensure payslip is generated accurately, distributed timely, and compliantly to employees.
• Process any changes in exemptions and job status.
• Completes payroll reports for record-keeping purposes or managerial review.
• Ensure year end certificates are issues to the employees
• Identifies, investigates and resolves discrepancies in timesheets and all payroll-related tasks.

Flexi Benefits Basket

• Configure and run the flexi benefit basket programme for employees incl payroll software configuration, reports from benefit provider (Sodexo), monthly refill of the benefit basket, etc.

Employee Helpdesk

• Responds to queries on salaries, income tax, labour law, deductions, attendance, time records, and other payroll-related matters.

Compliances

• Process payments to relevant authorities per statutory stipulated schedule, i.e. monthly tax payment to tax authority, PF payments, PT payments, ESI Payment, etc.
• Registration/deregistration of countries’ statutory social benefits to the relevant local authorities
• Responsible for quarterly/semi-annual / annual statutory processing to ensure compliance per statutory requirements, such as annual year-end tax filing (request relevant documentation from staff, compute relevant tax processing, produce required report/form for filing to tax authority and staff). Compliance will applicable laws on a periodic basis incl Income Tax, Provident Fund, Profession Tax, ESI, etc

Team Leading

• Plans and allocates work to the payroll team members
• Supervises designated payroll team members
• Determines the organization's tax obligations by calculating taxes as well as Insurance contributions
• Acts as the country expert in payroll and payroll tax related matters

Others

• Face and resolve statutory financial auditors questions pertaining to to payroll
• Provide payroll info for yearly actuarial valuation
• Adheres to payroll policies and procedures and complies with relevant law.
• Ad hoc tasks as and when requested by the Company

• Strong knowledge of payroll regulations in India
• Minimum tertiary education (post-secondary)
• Has working experience with payroll-related systems and software
• Deep understanding of Flexi Benefit works in India
• Deep understanding of India tax ruling
• Good knowledge of India labor legislations
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work under strict deadlines
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English and the language of countries of coverage
• Meticulous and has strong numerical skills (good with numbers)
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work under strict deadlines
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English and the language of countries of coverage

About Us 

GoGlobal is a leading global expansion service provider offering comprehensive solutions in global recruitment, employment, payroll and compliance services. As a trusted partner, we specialize in assisting businesses with their human resources, taxation, accounting, and all corporate services essential for seamless global expansions and operations. With a robust presence in over 100+ countries, our expertise extends to recruiting, employing on behalf of clients, facilitating payments, and establishing operational footholds, including legal entities, bank accounts, and ensuring annual compliance worldwide. Powered by cutting-edge technology, our solutions complement our experienced on-the-ground experts, enabling us to navigate and address the unique intricacies of each locale with a cohesive global strategy. 

Why GoGlobal 

GoGlobal, as a privately-owned company, offers its clients genuine global solutions! We stand out from the crowd as we make swift decisions aligned with our ambitions, free from outside investor pressures. This gives us the flexibility to quickly adapt to market changes and seize unique opportunities. Instead of distributing earnings to shareholders, we invest our profits back into the business, fuelling growth that’s driven by our own revenue and our team’s performance. Without expectations from external investors, we have the freedom to chart our own course and our success. Winning in our own way is what drives us.

Most importantly, our independent ownership allows us to preserve our culture that is rooted in our core values; prioritizing people, focusing on performance, embracing candor, valuing diversity, being agile and adopting a contrarian approach. With a diverse and growing team members across more than 45 countries, we embrace differences, practice empathy and encourage feedback. We operate in a trust-based environment where our team members are empowered to do their best work without the complications and challenges of navigating silos and unnecessary bureaucracy. 

Join us as we leverage innovative thinking and teamwork to explore new opportunities and possibilities! 

How we are different 

• We’re private: We totally respect that many companies raise a lot of capital and we applaud these successes. At GoGlobal, we simply like people actually in the business to control the business. 
• We’re not a rocket ship: We’re pretty happy on earth. Growth isn’t everything. 
• We’re not a tech company: We fundamentally believe that this industry cannot be replaced by tech in the foreseeable future and it’s the people that make the difference. 
• We’re profitable: We’re pretty prudent in how we spend money because we’re managing our business without outside investors. That said, we’re profitable and continue to grow sustainably. We sleep better at night knowing that we don’t have to raise money. Maybe it’s a little old school, but we believe businesses should be profitable to survive long term. 
• We’re diverse. No, really, we are. Compare the team on our website to others you know. We think you’ll agree! 
• We’re transparent: Every month we openly share our strategy and financials so you feel ownership of your role in the company’s success. 
• We’re structured as a partnership versus a corporation: We’re the only one in our industry that’s structured this way, allowing us to attract some of the best talent since everyone has the opportunity to be a partner in the firm. 
• We are the underdog: We think it’s more fun to be a pirate than to be in the navy. 

What we offer 

• Global career: Work alongside the best talent from diverse backgrounds in a fast-expanding international business 
• Results-driven culture: Excel in a result-driven environment that recognises and rewards high performance 
• Remote work: Embrace flexibility with our remote work environment 
• Unlimited vacation: Enjoy unlimited vacation days to rest and recharge at your own pace. 
• Wifi: Get your home wifi costs covered, ensuring you are always connected. 
• Annual training: Benefit from an annual training allowance to further your professional development 

Ready to take the next step in your career with us? Apply now! 

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