Payroll Team Lead

Loreal; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

L’Oréal in Malaysia is looking for a Payroll Team Lead to ensure employees are compensated accurately and on time, while upholding payroll integrity and driving process improvements. You will manage end-to-end payroll processing, data validation, final payment, and reporting, ensuring compliance with group and local regulations.

You will partner with HR Business Partners and Finance, serving as the main payroll expert and guiding employees on payroll inquiries.

Qualifications

• Experience managing payroll cycles end-to-end in a dynamic environment.
• Strong knowledge of local payroll regulations, tax laws and social security requirements.
• Excellent analytical skills with a keen eye for detail to ensure accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Ensure payroll excellence by end-to-end processing, data validation, final payment and reporting.
• Drive process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy in payroll workflows.
• Act as the strategic payroll partner, guiding employees and collaborating with HR and Finance.
• Maintain compliance and reporting, stay updated with employment law and tax regulations, support audits.

Skills

Payroll management

Payroll regulations

Data accuracy

Analytical skills

Multitasking

Communication skills

Job description

Hello, we’re L’Oréal. We're not just building brands, we're shaping how the world experiences beauty (and it takes a lot of cool jobs to do it). Intrigued? Keep reading, this might be the opportunity you've been searching for.

A Day in the Life

As a Payroll Team Lead, you will be a key expert within our HR team, ensuring our employees are compensated accurately and on time. You will play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity of our payroll operations and driving process improvements. This is a hands‑on role where your expertise will directly impact the employee experience and support our business.

You will be responsible for:

• Ensuring Payroll Excellence: Managing end-to-end payroll processing, from data collection and validation to final payment and reporting, ensuring precision and compliance with group and local regulations.
• Driving Process Improvement: Identifying opportunities to enhance payroll processed and workflows, implementing best practices to increase efficiency and accuracy.
• Being a Strategic Partner: Acting as the main point of contact for payroll-related inquiries, providing expert guidance to employees and collaborating closely with HR Business Partners and Finance teams.
• Maintaining Compliance & Reporting: Staying current with employment law and tax regulations, managing statutory reporting, assisting with internal and external audits.

We Are Looking For

We are seeking an experienced and meticulous professional who is ready to take ownership and contribute to a high‑performing team. You are a problem‑solver with a strong service orientation and the ability to handle complex payroll scenarios with confidence.

You're a great match if you have:

• Proven experience in managing comprehensive payroll cycles in a dynamic environment.
• Strong knowledge of local payroll regulations, tax laws, and social security requirements.
• Excellent analytical skills and a keen eye for detail to ensure data accuracy.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.
• Great communicationskills, capable of explaining complex information clearly to stakeholders.

What’s In It For You

• A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here,you’llbe encouraged to try new things and take risks!)
• Real responsibility from day 1,there’sno sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal

• An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, genderand sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, willthriveand are celebrated!
• A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal/environmental causes to make concrete difference

Who We Are

L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry world leader with €42 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet.

Join our 2,000+ strong global HR community and contribute to making L’Oréal of the most inclusive, innovative and inspiring People Driven company. With us, you’ll foster a culture of individual care and DEI, build a skills-based organization, leverage technology for impactful people experiences and enable the Group's transformations. Ready for global impact? Explore our diverse and unique career paths Talent Acquisition, Learning, Rewards, HR data, HR tech, Transformation, and more.

We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and to advocating for hiring and promoting each candidate in an ethical and equitable way. The Group strictly prohibits discrimination against any applicant for employment because of the individual’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, visible and/or invisible disabilities, socio-economic and/or multicultural origins, health conditions, age, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.