Senior Payroll Specialist, APAC (Contract)

Tap Growth ai; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 78,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Completion bonus

Other benefits

Job summary

Tap Growth ai is seeking a seasoned Head of Payroll to manage end-to-end payroll operations across APAC, driving transformation, digitalization, and process excellence. You will partner with HR, Finance, vendors, and external agencies to deliver timely, accurate, compliant, employee-centric payroll services.

Leading governance, audits, and risk management, you will oversee system implementations, integrations, and regional/global projects, while coaching team members and standardizing processes

Qualifications

• Degree in HR, Business, Finance, or related field.
• At least 8 years of payroll experience.
• Experience in payroll operations, preferably in multiple countries.
• Solid understanding of payroll processes, compliance, and controls.
• Strong analytical, project management, communication, and stakeholder skills.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Payroll Delivery: Manage accurate, timely, and compliant multi-country payroll processing and delivery across APAC.
• Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement: Serve as payroll advisor to HR, Finance, vendors, and external agencies to ensure service excellence.
• Governance & Compliance: Maintain payroll controls, audits, reconciliations, and risk management.
• Transformation & Automation: Lead payroll transformation, process optimization, automation, and digitalization for efficiency and scalability.
• System Implementations & Projects: Support payroll system implementations and regional/global projects.
• Change Management: Drive change management, communication planning, training, and adoption strategies.
• Documentation & Policies: Develop payroll policies, SOPs, checklists, and knowledge bases.
• Process Standardization: Standardize workflows and strengthen governance to reduce risk.
• SME & Coaching: Troubleshoot issues, coach juniors, and build capability.
• Cross-Regional Collaboration: Work with teams across regions for resilience and learning.

Education

Degree in HR/Business/Finance/Accounting

Job description

About the company:

Our client is leading the digital transformation of energy management and automation.

Location: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Work Mode: Hybrid
Contract: 12 month

About the Role

Manage end-to-endpayroll operations across a cluster of countries (APAC), while driving payrolltransformation, digitalization, and process excellence initiatives. This rolepartners with regional stakeholders to deliver timely, accurate, compliant,employee-centric payroll services and support ongoing organizational change.

Key Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Payroll Delivery: Manage accurate, timely, and compliant multi-country payroll processing, checking, and delivery in line with statutory and company standards.
• Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement: Act as a trusted payroll advisor and primary contact for HR, Finance, vendors, and external agencies to ensure service excellence and issue resolution.
• Governance, Compliance & Controls: Govern payroll controls, compliance requirements, audits, reconciliations, and risk management to maintain a robust control environment.
• Transformation & Automation: Lead payroll transformation, process optimization, automation, and digitalization to improve operational efficiency, scalability, and employee experience.
• System Implementations & Projects: Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to support payroll system implementations, technology enhancements, integrations, and regional/global projects (including acquisitions, transitions, and new country deployments).
• Change Management: Drive change management activities, including stakeholder engagement, communication planning, training, and adoption strategies.
• Documentation & Policies: Develop, maintain, and enhance payroll policies, standard operating procedures, documentation, control checklists, and knowledge repositories.
• Process Standardization: Identify opportunities to standardize workflows, strengthen governance, reduce operational risks, and embed industry best practices.
• Subject Matter Expertise & Coaching: Serve as a process SME by troubleshooting complex issues, coaching junior team members, and fostering capability development.
• Cross-Regional Collaboration: Collaborate with teammates across regions to ensure operational resilience, business continuity, and a culture of continuous learning.

Requirements

• Degree in HumanResources, Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• At least 8 years ofpayroll experience.
• Experience in payrolloperations, preferably in multiple countries.
• Solid understanding ofpayroll processes, compliance, and controls.
• Effective analytical,project management, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with theability to solve problems and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Able to workindependently, manage multiple priorities, and thrive in a fast-pacedenvironment.
• Experience in payrolltransformation or automation is an advantage.

Remuneration

• Basic salary: RM7,000 - RM10,000
• Completion bonus
• Other benefits