1. Payroll Processing and Administration
- Manage end-to-end payroll processing, ensuring accurate and timely salary disbursement.
- Validate payroll inputs, attendance, leave, salary revisions, incentives, arrears, reimbursements, and full & final settlements.
- Resolve payroll discrepancies and employee queries.
2. SAP HR/HCM Payroll – Hands-on Experience
- Independently execute and validate payroll runs in SAP HR/HCM, including payroll simulation, error resolution, and payroll release.
- Manage employee master data, infotypes, wage types, payroll schemas, PCRs, and payroll control records.
- Handle retroactive accounting, off-cycle payroll, payroll corrections, and payroll reporting.
- Ensure accurate payroll posting and reconciliation with SAP FI/GL.
- Coordinate SAP configuration changes, system enhancements, UAT, and troubleshooting.
3. Statutory Compliance and Taxation
- Ensure compliance with applicable labour laws and statutory requirements, including PF, ESI, professional tax, income tax/TDS, gratuity, and bonus.
- Manage statutory deductions, payments, returns, reconciliations, and employee tax documentation.
- Monitor regulatory changes and ensure timely implementation in payroll processes.
4. Payroll Accounting and Reconciliation
- Coordinate with Finance for payroll accounting, salary payments, and posting of payroll expenses and liabilities.
- Reconcile payroll with the General Ledger, bank payments, and employee records.
- Support month-end/year-end closing, provisions, and financial reporting.
5. Team Management and Process Control
- Lead the payroll team and ensure adherence to payroll calendars, SOPs, and internal controls.
- Maintain payroll confidentiality, data accuracy, and access controls.
- Drive process improvements, automation, and operational efficiency through SAP.
6. Reporting, Audit and Stakeholder Management
- Prepare payroll MIS, salary cost reports, variance analysis, and management reports.
- Support internal and statutory audits with payroll records and SAP reports.
- Coordinate with HR, Finance, IT, and external consultants to ensure seamless payroll operations.
Required Skills and Experience
- Proven experience in end-to-end payroll management in a managerial role.
- Strong hands-on experience in SAP HR/HCM Payroll, including payroll execution, troubleshooting, validation, and reporting.
- Sound knowledge of SAP payroll configuration concepts, wage types, schemas, PCRs, infotypes, retroactive accounting, and payroll posting.
- Strong understanding of Indian payroll statutory compliance and taxation.
- Experience in SAP FI integration, payroll reconciliation, and accounting.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills.
Essential Requirement
Candidates must have practical, hands-on SAP Payroll experience and be capable of independently managing the complete payroll cycle, resolving SAP payroll errors, ensuring statutory compliance, and delivering accurate and timely payroll.
