Payroll Senior Specialist

IND - 2028 Takeda Innovations India Private Limited; Bengaluru; Híbrido; INR 900.000 - 1.500.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible hybrid work environment

Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance for

Group Life Insurance

Group Accident Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Learning platforms

DEI Programs

Home Internet & Mobile Phone reimburse

Employee Referral Program

Parental Leave

Descripción de la vacante

Takeda is seeking a Senior Payroll Specialist in Bengaluru to lead payroll operations for an assigned portfolio with increased independence and complexity. You will validate earnings, taxes, and time data while supporting audits and process improvements.

You will collaborate with Payroll COE, HR, Finance, and other stakeholders to ensure compliant and timely payroll delivery, leveraging digital tools and outsourcing partners where needed.

Formación

• 3–5 years of payroll experience, ideally in regional, multi-entity, or international operations.
• Strong knowledge of payroll controls, reconciliations, documentation, and confidentiality.
• Experience with outsourced payroll providers and payroll data handling.

Responsabilidades

• Coordinate end-to-end payroll activities for an assigned portfolio.
• Validate earnings, deductions, taxes, benefits, and time data.
• Perform reconciliations, controls, and year-end support with audit-ready records.
• Provide day-to-day guidance and collaborate with Payroll COE, HR, Finance and other stakeholders.

Conocimientos

Payroll operations

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Confidentiality

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Payroll certification advantageous

Herramientas

Workday

ADP

SAP Payroll

ServiceNow

Descripción del empleo

Job Description

The Future Begins Here At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet. Bengaluru, the city, which is India's epicenter of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda's recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.

Objective / Purpose

The Senior Payroll Specialist is a senior professional role responsible for supporting payroll operations across an assigned payroll portfolio with greater independence and complexity. This role manages complex transactions, performs deeper validations and reconciliations, resolves operational issues, supports projects and change activities, and provides day-to-day technical guidance to colleagues. The role contributes to accurate, timely, compliant, and employee-focused payroll delivery while helping improve process quality and resilience. It covers an assigned regional, multi-entity, or multi-market payroll portfolio, with no budget ownership and no direct reports.

Accountabilities

• Coordinate end-to-end payroll activities through approved systems and external providers for an assigned portfolio.
• Validate complex earnings, deductions, taxes, statutory contributions, benefits, equity-related transactions, time data, and employee changes.
• Perform reconciliations, controls, corrections, off-cycle transactions, and year-end support with increased independence, and prepare and maintain audit-ready evidence, documentation, and process records.
• Investigate complex issues, identify root causes, implement corrective actions within authority, and escalat material risks where appropriate.
• Serve as an operational contact for payroll providers, and partner with Payroll COE, HR, Finance, Total Rewards, Mobility, Technology, Risk, Audit, and other stakeholders to resolve issues, support service quality, and ensure follow-through.
• Use approved digital, AI, and automation tools responsibly with human review and validation, and support system changes, testing, transitions, implementations, and process updates related to payroll and connected processes.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate recurring work and reduce manual effort or recurring errors, and provide day-to-day guidance, peer coaching, and knowledge sharing to colleagues.

Education & Competencies (Technical and Behavioral)

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in HR, Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field; payroll certification is advantageous.
• Typically 3–5 years of payroll experience, ideally in regional, multi-entity, or international operations.
• No direct reports; the role provides day-to-day guidance, peer coaching, and knowledge sharing rather than formal people management.
• Strong knowledge of payroll operations, controls, reconciliations, documentation, tax and statutory support, and confidentiality, with experience of outsourced payroll providers and confidence working with payroll data, reports, and structured datasets.
• Experience with payroll systems and digital tools such as Workday, ADP, SAP Payroll, ServiceNow, or equivalent is desirable.
• Fluent English; additional relevant languages are desirable.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, service, prioritization, and communication skills, with sound judgment in more complex payroll situations.
• Demonstrates accountability, collaboration, inclusion, curiosity, and openness to change.

BENEFITS

• Competitive Salary + Performance Annual Bonus
• Flexible work environment, including hybrid working
• Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance Plans for self, spouse, and children
• Group Term Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Broad Variety of learning platforms
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
• Reimbursements – Home Internet & Mobile Phone
• Employee Referral Program
• Leaves – Paternity Leave (4 Weeks) , Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks), Bereavement Leave (5 calendar days)

#Li-Hybrid Locations IND - Bengaluru

Worker Type Employee

Worker Sub-Type Regular

Time Type Full time

About Takeda

Takeda is an industry-leading, global pharmaceutical company with an unwavering dedication to putting patients at the center of everything we do. We live our values of Takeda-ism - Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance - and are united by our mission to strive towards Better Health and a Brighter Future for people worldwide through leading innovation in medicine. Here, everyone matters and you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission. At Takeda, you will make an impact on people's lives – including your own.

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