Senior Payroll Specialist

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Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

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We’re currently hiring for a Senior Payroll Specialist to join our global Payroll Team based in our Hyderabad Office We’re looking for a payroll superstar, with a keen eye for accuracy, attention to detail and a desire to share your APAC payroll expertise and knowledge with our Global Payroll Team. Reporting to the Payroll Lead, you’ll have above-average understanding of the APAC region payroll, its overall function, and how our team provides excellent service to others. You’ll be responsible for the accurate, effective, and timely processing of your payroll for each pay period.

This role will initially include partnering with our third-party payroll vendor and their advisors to strive for accuracy, reduce errors, and process payroll more efficiently. You will partner to develop robust & detailed processes to ensure the execution of payroll in an effective, efficient, and timely manner. Cross-training will be key!

This amazing role will also participate by providing a variety of deliverables, including global projects, pre-post payroll journals, internal audits, and more. Also, you will provide input regarding team goals, KPIs, efficiencies, process improvements, and future optimization of our payroll team - all while providing outstanding customer service. Always.

The specifics:

• You’ll be working as a part of a wider Global Payroll Team, servicing 25+ countries using Workday (HRIS), while focusing specifically on our APAC Wisers

• Support in the global payroll transformation project, moving to our Global Payroll Provider (Cloudpay)

• You’ll prepare, double-check, cross-check, review and analyze payrolls according to the established deadlines

• You’ll be completely responsible to ensure the timely submission of your payroll inputs to our third party payroll provider

• You’ll partner with your Lead to recommend new approaches, policy and procedure changes towards continuous improvement within the team 

• You’ll ensure your payrolls balance to your inputs - always

• You’ll be responsible for all documentation within your historical payroll files

• Continue to increase subject matter expertise on your allocated locations, on all payroll and legislative matters, providing support, as needed, to others

• Work with the Payroll team and the Payroll Lead to provide additional processing/transaction support, as needed

Compliance:

• You’ll ensure compliance across local payroll tax laws, while meeting applicable timelines effectively and efficiently

• Stay current with regulation changes affecting your payrolls to ensure accuracy and service to our customers 

• Partner to complete and respond to regulatory agency inquiries

Financials, Audits, and Reporting:

• Responsible for outputs of your payrolls, such as payroll journals, GL files, and ad-hoc reporting  

• You’ll ensure all reporting and data is completed timely 

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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