Senior Payroll & Compliance Process Lead

Boston Scientific Gruppe; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Scientific is seeking a Payroll Process Supervisor in Penang to lead payroll processing, ensure compliance with local laws, and drive continuous improvement with the outsource partner. You will oversee Kronos integration, audits, and month-end activities while maintaining accurate reporting and cost analyses.

The role requires 5–10 years of payroll experience, strong statutory knowledge, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a multinational context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR Management, Business Management, Finance, Administration, or related field.
• 5-10 years of payroll experience in an industry / multinational company.
• Strong knowledge of payroll processing, statutory compliance, and payroll taxation.
• Experience with payroll and time & attendance systems.
• Hands-on experience in expatriate and assignment payroll administration.
• Strong project management and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience in payroll accounting and reporting.
• Payroll forecasting and tax forecasting experience is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all site staff are paid on time, correctly, in full and in compliance with all legal requirements.
• Management of payroll relationship with HR Service Centre.
• Management of 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

Project management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Time management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in HR Management/Business/Finance/Administration

Tools

Kronos

Job description

Boston Scientific is seeking a Payroll Process Supervisor in Penang to lead payroll processing, ensure compliance with local laws, and drive continuous improvement with the outsource partner. You will oversee Kronos integration, audits, and month-end activities while maintaining accurate reporting and cost analyses.

The role requires 5–10 years of payroll experience, strong statutory knowledge, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a multinational context.