Senior Payroll Specialist - APAC

Neara; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Multiplier is seeking a detail‑oriented Senior Payroll Specialist to join our team, with a strong focus on Global Payroll services, consulting payroll, and comprehensive HRMS management. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Indian payroll regulations and other APAC countries and will play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll delivery for our clients employees.

This role is a builder role for someone who takes personal accountability, ownership is

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Indian payroll processing in a multinational or shared services environment.
• Demonstrable experience with Global Payroll models or payroll services for GCCs/global clients.
• Deep knowledge of PF, ESI, PT, TDS, and Labour Laws in India and APAC countries.

Responsibilities

• Manage the complete payroll lifecycle from input collection, validation, processing, approvals, and final disbursement.
• Handle payroll processing for India and APAC countries, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Coordinate with clients, employees, local payroll partners, finance teams, and internal stakeholders to resolve payroll queries.

Skills

Payroll processing

Global payroll

Statutory compliance

APAC payroll

Tools

HRIS systems

Payroll software

Job description

About us

The global hiring revolution is shaping a future where talent can thrive everywhere, driving innovation and progress on a global scale. Multiplier is at the forefront of this change. By removing barriers and simplifying global hiring, we’re creating a level playing field where businesses and individuals – (like you) – can compete, grow, and succeed, regardless of geography.

Multiplier empowers companies to hire, onboard, manage, and pay talent in 150+ countries, quickly and compliably. Our mission is to build a world without limits, where ambitious businesses can look beyond borders to build their global dream teams.

Our unified employment platform, complete with world-class EOR, AOR and Global Payroll products, means it has never been easier to seize the global hiring opportunity.

We’re backed by some of the best in the business, (Sequoia, DST, and Tiger Global), are led by industry‑leading experts, scaling fast, and seeking brilliant like‑minded enthusiasts to join our team. The future is borderless. Let’s build it together.

About Job

We are seeking a detail‑oriented and highly knowledgeable Senior Payroll Specialist to join our team, with a strong focus on Global Payroll services, consulting payroll, and comprehensive HRMS management. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Indian payroll regulations and other APAC countries and will play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll delivery for our clients employees.

This role is a builder role for someone who takes personal accountability, ownership is comfortable rolling up their sleeves, and thrives in a fast‑paced environment.

Skills & Qualification

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in Indian payroll processing in a multinational or shared services environment.

• Demonstrable experience working with Global Payroll models or payroll services for GCCs/global clients is essential.

• Statutory Expertise: Deep and practical knowledge of PF, ESI, PT, TDS, and Labour Laws in India and other APAC countries.

Responsibilities

• Manage the complete payroll lifecycle from payroll input collection, validation, processing, review, approvals, and final salary disbursement.

• Handle payroll processing for India and other APAC countries, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to country‑specific payroll calendars.

• Coordinate with clients, employees, local payroll partners, finance teams, and internal stakeholders to resolve payroll queries and ensure timely closure.

Indian Statutory Compliance

• Ensure compliance with Indian statutory requirements, including Provident Fund (PF), Employee State Insurance (ESI), Professional Tax (PT), Labour Welfare Fund (LWF), and other applicable regulations.

• Manage TDS deductions under Section 192 and ensure accurate application of applicable tax rules.

• Monitor statutory payment timelines, filings, challans, and compliance requirements to avoid penalties and interest.

Payroll Taxation & Reporting

• Manage payroll taxation activities, including monthly TDS calculations, deductions, payments, and statutory reporting.

• Oversee quarterly TDS returns, including Form 24Q, and annual Form 16 generation and distribution.

• Support payroll processing under both the Old and New Tax Regimes and validate employee investment declarations and tax projections.

• Prepare and review payroll reports, statutory reports, variance reports, and management reports.

APAC Payroll & Statutory Compliance

• Process and support payroll across multiple APAC countries, ensuring adherence to local payroll legislation, tax regulations, social security requirements, and statutory deadlines.

• Develop working knowledge of country‑specific statutory requirements such as CPF (Singapore), EPF/SOCSO/EIS (Malaysia), MPF (Hong Kong), SSS/PhilHealth/Pag‑IBIG (Philippines), BPJS (Indonesia), and applicable tax/social security requirements across other APAC countries.

• Coordinate with local payroll partners and country experts to ensure accurate payroll processing and statutory compliance.

• Track country‑specific payroll calendars, public holidays, payment deadlines, and statutory filing requirements.

Payroll Reconciliation & Controls

• Perform detailed payroll reconciliations by comparing current‑period payroll with prior‑period results, source data, and employee‑level changes.

• Validate gross‑to‑net calculations, earnings, deductions, taxes, statutory contributions, reimbursements, and other payroll components.

• Investigate payroll variances and discrepancies and coordinate with relevant stakeholders to implement timely corrections.

• Perform pre‑payroll and post‑payroll quality checks to maintain high payroll accuracy.

Payroll Inputs & Data Validation

• Review and validate payroll inputs including new joiners, leavers, salary revisions, bonuses, allowances, deductions, unpaid leave, overtime, reimbursements, and other employee changes.

• Ensure payroll inputs are complete, accurate, and received within agreed payroll cut‑off timelines.

• Identify data inconsistencies and work with HR/clients to obtain the required clarification before payroll processing.

Payroll Implementation & Transition – Added Advantage

• Support end‑to‑end payroll implementation and transition projects for India and APAC countries.

• Participate in requirement gathering, payroll configuration, statutory setup, data migration, parallel runs, UAT, reconciliation, and go‑live activities.

• Work closely with implementation, product, technology, and local payroll teams to configure country‑specific payroll requirements.

• Support migration of payrolls from existing providers/platforms and ensure a smooth transition with minimal business disruption.

• Prepare and validate payroll templates, test scenarios, process documentation, and implementation checklists.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a payroll subject‑matter expert for clients and internal stakeholders, providing timely guidance on payroll and statutory matters.

• Manage payroll queries and escalations, ensuring issues are investigated, communicated, and resolved within agreed SLAs.

• Collaborate effectively with Finance, HR, Tax, Compliance, Product, Operations, and local payroll partners across different time zones.

Process Improvement & Governance

• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls, automation, and operational efficiency.

• Maintain payroll SOPs, process documentation, statutory trackers, payroll calendars, and control checklists.

• Ensure adherence to internal controls, data confidentiality, audit requirements, and payroll governance standards.

• Support internal and external payroll audits by providing accurate payroll records, reconciliations, reports, and supporting documentation.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands‑on experience in end‑to‑end payroll processing, preferably covering India and multiple APAC countries.

• Strong knowledge of Indian payroll, taxation, and statutory compliance.

• Working knowledge of APAC payroll practices and country‑specific statutory requirements.

• Strong payroll reconciliation, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.

• Experience working with payroll platforms, HRIS systems, or payroll software.

• Excellent stakeholder and client management skills.

• Payroll implementation, transition, migration, or new‑country setup experience will be an added advantage.

• Ability to manage multiple payrolls, countries, and deadlines in a fast‑paced global payroll environment.