Payroll, Time & Benefits Specialist (Mandarin Speaker)

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Gruppe; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare company in Petaling Jaya is seeking a Payroll Specialist to manage payroll processing and ensure compliance with statutory regulations. The ideal candidate will have over 2 years of payroll experience, excellent analytical skills, and familiarity with Workday. This role includes responsibilities related to payroll calculation, benefits administration, and customer service to address pay-related inquiries.

Qualifications

• More than 2 years of experience in payroll services, in a shared service center environment.
• Knowledge of payroll cycle and processes.
• Deep knowledge of local tax and social insurance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure payroll result accuracy and timeliness.
• Manage payroll processing and reconciliation.
• Provide customer service on pay, time, and benefits.

Skills

Payroll administration

Attention to detail

Analytical ability

Advanced Excel skills

Tools

Workday

Job description

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

The Payroll, Time and Benefits team focuses on payroll administration, ensuring payroll result accuracy and timeliness and audit risk free. The incumbent should be familiar with statutory regulations, income tax, and any relevant implications resulting from international employee transfers, severance schemes and new payroll policies.

Involved in the full cycle of payroll processing such as undertaking payroll calculation, performing payroll reconciliation, preparing payroll accounting, general ledger and reports, etc. Other responsibilities include monitoring the processing checklist and calendars, maintaining precise documentation, providing data / report for respective statutory filing within the stipulated deadlines.

• Execute system data maintenance and administrative activities in support of P&C business processes in the area of payroll, tax, social insurance, time, local and global benefits administration.
• Provide customer service on pay, time and benefits related activities, such as inquiry resolution, request management, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure that all union negotiations (if any) associated with PTB activities should be handled properly and in a timely manner
• Manage, process and reconcile mass upload files for all pay frequencies.
• Monitor data flows to/from Workday to Vendor for accuracy
• Ensure integrations are processed timely and resolve any errors ensuring accurately processed
• Ensure regulatory compliance in line with the countries, customers, and regulations.
• Actively Initiate and participate in the development and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives

Who you are
You bring the following experience:

• More than 2 years of experience in payroll services, in a shared service center environment for Taiwan & Hong Kong preferably.
• Knowledge of payroll cycle and processes /benefits operations and processes
• Knowledge of Workday P&C Processes
• Deep Knowledge of local tax and social insurance
• Excellent attention to detail, analytical ability and advanced Excel skills (pivot table, v-lookup, etc.)

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.