Payroll Process Supervisor: Compliance, Audit & Efficiency

Boston Scientific Gruppe; Penang; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Scientific is a global medical technology leader seeking a Payroll Process Supervisor to support the Finance Manager on payroll initiatives. You will apply advanced payroll principles, ensure compliance, and design payroll audit processes in collaboration with an outsource partner.

You will lead Kronos time and attendance setup, validate pay results, and drive continuous improvement while maintaining accuracy and regulatory compliance across the site.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of payroll experience in a multinational setting.
• Strong knowledge of payroll processing, statutory compliance, and taxation.
• Hands-on experience with expatriate payroll and assignments.
• Experience with payroll and time & attendance systems.
• Strong project and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure site staff are paid on time, correctly, in full and in compliance with all legal requirements.
• Manage payroll relationship with HR Service Centre.
• Oversee 3rd party payroll service provider to SLA.
• Set up of all new employees for payroll purposes.
• Manage ad hoc or one off payments.
• Expatriate payroll processing and adherence to Revenue requirements.
• Ensuring compliance with Statutory/SOX and Company legislation/policy.
• Site Lead for Internal/External audit for the Payroll function.
• Payroll Month End Accounting.
• Analyse comp and ben spend versus plan.
• Analyse actual labour cost per hour.
• Return of all Payroll related statutory returns, external reports.
• Provision of Management reports in relation to the Payroll function.
• Employee Expense - Policy setting, communication and supervision of payment process.
• To establish and support a work environment of continuous improvement that supports BSC's Quality Policy, Quality System and the appropriate regulations for the area.
• Site lead of Initial set up of Kronos time and recording system.
• Enter any manual data needed such as cost centres, badges, shift patterns, work centres.
• Set up Kronos codes and ensure the correct codes are used by employees/supervisors.
• Expert on Kronos rules and how they relate to employee pay, set up new rules and maintain.
• Training of site supervisors to correctly sign off employee Kronos time sheets and manage time allocations to the correct codes.
• Ensure employee time cards are signed off on time and are complete.
• Annual system maintenance, support system upgrades and updates.
• Develop non-standard reports in conjunction with the Kronos IT team as required to run the business.
• Analysis of paid hours for labour efficiency calculations.
• Payroll and finance admin.
• Manage finance element of quality first bonus plan.

Skills

Payroll processing

Statutory compliance

Payroll taxation

Time & attendance

Expatriate payroll

Project management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Independent working

Education

Bachelor's Degree in HR/Business/Finance

Tools

Kronos

Job description

Boston Scientific is a global medical technology leader seeking a Payroll Process Supervisor to support the Finance Manager on payroll initiatives. You will apply advanced payroll principles, ensure compliance, and design payroll audit processes in collaboration with an outsource partner.

You will lead Kronos time and attendance setup, validate pay results, and drive continuous improvement while maintaining accuracy and regulatory compliance across the site.