t3 Strategic Partners
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t3strategicpartners.com
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Hiring | Payroll Shared Services Lead – India | Noida
We are looking for a seasoned Payroll Shared Services Leader to lead end-to-end, high-volume in-house payroll operations for ~30,000 employees across India.
This is a critical leadership role for an experienced payroll professional who has managed large-scale payroll operations, statutory compliance, payroll accounting, controls, automation, and large teams in a complex enterprise environment.
Role: Payroll Lead – India📍 Location: Noida
👤 Experience: 15+ Years
👥 Payroll Scale: ~35,000 Employees
💼 Employment Type: Full-time
Key Responsibilities🔹 End-to-End Payroll Operations
- Lead monthly in-house payroll processing for ~35,000 employees.
- Ensure 100% accuracy, timely processing, and salary disbursement.
- Oversee payroll inputs including salary revisions, bonuses, incentives, reimbursements and Full & Final settlements.
- Establish robust payroll governance, calendars, controls and SLAs.
🔹 Statutory Compliance & Tax
- Ensure compliance with PF, ESI, Professional Tax, TDS, Labour Welfare Fund and other applicable regulations.
- Oversee monthly, quarterly and annual statutory filings.
- Ensure readiness for evolving Labour Code requirements.
- Lead payroll-related statutory audits, tax assessments and regulatory reviews.
🔹 Payroll Accounting & Reconciliation
- Own payroll accounting, accruals and GL postings.
- Drive payroll reconciliation, variance analysis and balance-sheet tie-outs.
- Partner closely with Controllership, Finance, Tax and R2R teams.
🔹 Process Excellence & Automation
- Drive payroll transformation, standardization and automation.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual interventions and improve payroll cycle efficiency.
- Standardize processes across multiple business units/entities.
- Lead payroll system enhancements and continuous improvement initiatives.
🔹 Systems, Data & Controls
- Manage payroll operations on SAP S/4HANA / SAP or similar enterprise payroll platforms.
- Ensure payroll data integrity, confidentiality and complete audit trails.
- Strengthen maker-checker controls, access governance and segregation of duties.
🔹 Employee Experience
- Lead payroll helpdesk and query-resolution mechanisms with defined TATs.
- Improve employee understanding of salary components, taxation, deductions and payslips.
- Build a strong employee-centric payroll service model with minimal escalations.
🔹 Risk, Audit & Governance
- Establish robust controls to prevent payroll errors, leakages and compliance risks.
- Ensure preparedness for internal, statutory and SOX audits, where applicable.
- Proactively identify and mitigate operational, compliance and financial risks.
🔹 Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Lead and develop a large payroll operations team.
- Drive workforce planning, productivity, capability development and succession planning.
- Partner with HR, Finance, Tax, Business and senior leadership.
- Provide leadership dashboards covering payroll costs, trends, variances, productivity and key operational metrics.
What We're Looking For- 15+ years of overall experience, with deep expertise in India payroll operations.
- Proven experience managing large-scale in-house payroll for 20,000+ employees.
- Strong understanding of Indian payroll statutory compliance, taxation and labour regulations.
- Demonstrated expertise in payroll accounting, GL integration and reconciliation.
- Experience with SAP / S/4HANA, Workday or similar enterprise HR/payroll systems.
- Strong track record in payroll transformation, automation, standardization and process stabilization.
- Experience leading large payroll teams in a shared services / captive / enterprise environment.
- Strong governance, controls, audit and risk-management orientation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Qualification- Graduate / Postgraduate in Finance, HR or a related discipline.
- CA / MBA preferred, but not mandatory.
Ideal Candidate ProfileWe are particularly interested in leaders who have managed 20,000–30,000+ employee payrolls in-house, rather than professionals whose experience has been primarily limited to payroll outsourcing/vendor management.
If you have built, stabilized, transformed or scaled a large payroll shared services operation and are ready to take ownership of a 35,000-employee payroll ecosystem, we would like to hear from you.
📩 Interested candidates can share their updated profile / CV.
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