Payroll Accountant

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Mode - C2H ("8 Months" and renewable)

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced India payroll professional (8–10 years) to Manage payroll processing for our organization and managed outsourced payroll vendors. The role owns end-to-end payroll operations, statutory compliance and filings, vendor management, employee life‑cycle payroll activities, final settlement (F&F) management, TDS computation, and vendor invoice processing.

• Key responsibilities :
• Manage end-to-end payroll processing (monthly/weekly as applicable) including data collection, gross-to-net calculation, validations, payroll runs and salary disbursements (bank transfers).
• Own and manage outsource payroll providers: define SLAs, monitor performance, validate outputs, coordinate issue resolution and ensure data security and confidentiality.
• Ensure timely and accurate statutory compliance and filing (examples: PF, ESI, PT, professional tax, TDS, labour returns) and prepare and submit periodic statutory returns and reports.
• Calculate, validate and reconcile TDS deductions on salary (and applicable non-salary payments) .
• Manage employee life‑cycle payroll activities: joiners/onboarding salary setup, salary revisions, promotions/transfers, leave and attendance adjustments, relocations ,benefits, and offboarding.
• Lead Full & Final (F&F) settlement process: calculate dues (salary, leave encashment, gratuity, statutory dues), recoverable, generate final settlement statements, coordinate sign‑offs and ensure timely payout.
• Maintain payroll records and reconciliation: payroll vs GL reconciliations, bank reconciliation for salary disbursements, payhead reconciliations, month‑end/year‑end close and audit support.
• Vendor invoice processing related to payroll: validate vendor invoices (payroll vendor, benefit providers), reconcile with SLAs and payroll outputs, obtain approvals and coordinate payments in coordination with finance team.
• Provide guidance, training and support to HR Business Partners and payroll users; act as escalation point for payroll queries and employee disputes.
• Salary JV calculation, Sodexo /Pluxee or NPS vendor payment management .
• Required experience & qualifications :
• 8–10 years of progressive payroll experience, with demonstrable experience managing outsourced payroll operations and vendor relationships.
• Strong working knowledge of statutory payroll requirements and filings relevant to the operating country/region (e.g., PF/ESI/TDS/PT and other local labour statutes if India; adjust for region).
• Proven experience in full & final settlements and complex exit calculations.
• Hands‑on experience in TDS computation and filing, including reconciliations and employee tax documentation.
• Experience validating and processing vendor invoices related to payroll and benefits.
• Experience with payroll systems/HRMS (examples: SAP HR/Payroll, Workday, ADP, Dayforce /Ceridian ,PeopleSoft, Kronos, or local payroll software) and MS Excel (including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, formulas).
• Experience working with Finance teams for GL reconciliations, Salary JV calculation , salary provision bank File processing, and audit support.

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A client of Randstad India