APAC Senior Payroll Lead - Compliance, Analytics & Vendors

Informa; Santo Niño 1st; On-site; PHP 5,629,000 - 9,381,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great community

Volunteer days

Training & mentoring

Birthday leave

Private medical cover

ShareMatch

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Informa is seeking a Senior Payroll professional to lead global payroll operations and compliance across APAC from our Bugis Junction Tower office. The role combines technical payroll expertise with vendor management and governance to drive improvements and ensure regulatory compliance.

You will manage both in-house and outsourced payroll processes, monitor regional laws, and provide insights from payroll data to support strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of progressive payroll experience.
• Strong analytical skills with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Mandarin (both written and spoken) to be able to communicate effectively with Mandarin speaking stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining meticulous attention to detail.
• Experience in stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Administer and manage both in-house and outsourced payroll processes across multiple APAC countries, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness
• Ensure statutory calculations, reconciliations, and submissions adhere to the diverse regulatory requirements of APAC countries
• Maintain comprehensive employee leave records and manage applications for governmental leave subsidies/claims
• Proactively monitor and implement changes to regional employment laws and regulations
• Respond to payroll-related inquiries with expertise and efficiency
• Oversee regional payroll vendors, ensuring adherence to service level agreements and compliance with local statutory requirements
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including Finance, HR, IT, Legal.
• Implement and maintain robust internal control frameworks including identifying compliance gaps, ensuring comprehensive documentation retention, and developing strategic risk mitigation measures
• Maintain and update payroll documentation including process manuals and workflow diagrams
• Create incident reports for escalations and implement corrective measures
• Support audit requests and government reporting requirements
• Participate in system migrations, user acceptance testing, compliance investigations, and integration projects
• Prepare and submit monthly reports including Finance reports, headcount analytics, KPIs, cost center allocations, leave utilization and so on.
• Develop insights from payroll data to support strategic decision-making

Skills

Payroll experience

Analytical skills

Excel

Communication skills

Mandarin proficiency

Multitasking

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SAP

EasyPay

ADP

Job description

Informa is seeking a Senior Payroll professional to lead global payroll operations and compliance across APAC from our Bugis Junction Tower office. The role combines technical payroll expertise with vendor management and governance to drive improvements and ensure regulatory compliance.

You will manage both in-house and outsourced payroll processes, monitor regional laws, and provide insights from payroll data to support strategic decisions.