Honeywell
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Job Description
The Senior Payroll Specialist is responsible for end-to-end payroll delivery across multiple countries, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, compliance, and exceptional employee experience. This role serves as the SME for payroll operations, statutory compliance, and controls; leads payroll projects (systems, process optimization, vendor transitions); and partners closely with HR, Finance, Legal, and external vendors to drive operational excellence and scale. Handling systems implementation, country rollouts, M&A integrations, process automation, BOTs/RPA, self-service enhancements.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Payroll Operations
- Own end-to-end payroll processing for assigned countries (APAC), including data collation, validation, gross-to-net calculations, review, approvals, and pay disbursements.
- Manage off-cycle runs, terminations, retro payments, bonus cycles, and equity/stock transactions as applicable.
- Oversee pre- and post-payroll reconciliations (headcount, variance, GL, bank files, tax/SS/NI/EPF/ESI/PF/Professional Tax/Gratuity, etc.).
- Ensure accurate statutory filings and payments within local deadlines (e.g., India—PF/ESI/PT/TDS etc).
- Maintain payroll calendars, SOPs, SLAs, MOS, KPIs and knowledge base documents.
- Compliance & Risk Controls
- Ensure compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements (labor codes, tax, social security, pension/benefits, garnishments, equity taxation).
- Implement and monitor robust internal controls (SOX/ICFR), segregation of duties, and audit trails; remediate issues promptly.
- Prepare audit artifacts and manage internal/external/statutory audits; drive zero-findings culture.
- Maintain data privacy and security standards (local data retention laws).
- Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Act as primary liaison with core HR, TA, Benefits, Finance (GL, AP, Treasury, Audit), Legal/Compliance, and IT.
- Manage payroll vendor relationships (SLA governance, performance reviews, , escalations, transitions).
- Communicate proactively with leadership, stakeholders, and employees on payroll timelines, changes, and issue resolution.
- Project & Change Management
- Lead and execute payroll transformation projects (systems implementation, country rollouts, M&A integrations, process automation, BOTs/RPA, self-service enhancements).
- Drive continuous improvement lean process re-engineering, cycle time reduction, first-time-right, touchless processing.
- Own UAT, parallel runs, cutovers, change logs, and post-go-live stabilization.
- Systems, Integrations & Reporting
- Serve as power user/administrator for payroll and HCM platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, etc.).
- Manage integration with HRIS, Time & Attendance, Benefits, Equity, and Finance GL; ensure data integrity and reconciliation.
- Develop standard and ad hoc payroll reporting (headcount cost analytics, accruals, GL postings, variance analysis, cost allocations, statutory trackers).
- Partner with Finance on month-end close, accruals, and audits; ensure accurate GL mapping and journal postings.
- Employee Experience & Query Resolution
- Resolve complex payroll queries with empathy, speed, and accuracy; manage escalations to closure.
- Create and maintain employee-facing guides/FAQs; conduct payroll orientation for new hires and managers.
- Monitor employee satisfaction metrics and drive improvements in NPS/CSAT.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications & Experience
- 8+ years of progressive payroll experience with multi-country/global payroll ownership and high-volume operations.
- Proven experience in project management (system implementations, vendor transitions, process automation).
- Demonstrated stakeholder management across HR, Finance, Legal, IT, and external vendors.
- Hands-on expertise with at least one global payroll engine and one enterprise HRIS (e.g., SAP/Oracle).
- Advanced Excel skills; strong data analysis and reconciliation capabilities.
- Experience with SOX/ICFR controls, internal/external audits, and compliance frameworks.
- M&A payroll integrations, entity set-ups/shutdowns, international assignments/expat payroll, shadow payroll, equity taxation.
- Business continuity planning (BCP/DR), global banking/payments platforms
- Data privacy impact assessments (DPIA) for payroll systems.
About Us
Honeywell helps organizations solve the world's most complex challenges in automation, the future of aviation and energy transition. As a trusted partner, we provide actionable solutions and innovation through our Aerospace Technologies, Building Automation, Energy and Sustainability Solutions, and Industrial Automation business segments – powered by our Honeywell Forge software – that help make the world smarter, safer and more sustainable.
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