Contract Senior Operations Payroll

HR-Pro Recruitment Services Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

HR-Pro Recruitment Services Pte Ltd is seeking an experienced payroll professional to lead end-to-end payroll operations for a cluster of countries, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and statutory compliance across multi-country operations.

You will act as a trusted partner to HR, Finance, vendors, and external agencies, drive payroll transformation, governance, audits, and risk management, and collaborate on system implementations and integrations.

Qualifications

• Degree in HR, Business, Finance, Accounting or related field with at least 8 years payroll experience
• Experience in MNC payroll operations, preferably in multiple countries
• Understanding of payroll processes, compliance, and controls

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end payroll operations for a cluster of countries ensuring payroll is delivered accurately, timely, and in compliance with statutory, regulatory, and company requirements
• Act as a key point of contact for the HR community, Finance, vendors, and external agencies, driving service excellence and effective issue resolution
• Govern payroll controls, compliance requirements, audits, reconciliations, and risk management activities to ensure a strong and sustainable control environment
• Lead payroll transformation initiatives, process optimization, automation, and digitalization efforts to improve operational efficiency, scalability, and employee experience
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to support payroll system implementations, technology enhancements, integrations, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Drive change management activities, including stakeholder engagement, communication planning, training, and adoption strategies to support business and payroll transformation
• Develop, maintain, and continuously enhance payroll policies, standard operating procedures, process documentation and control checklists
• Identify opportunities to standardize processes, strengthen governance, improve service delivery and reduce operational risks
• Support regional and global payroll projects, organizational changes, acquisitions, transitions, and new country deployments impacting payroll delivery
• Coach and provide day-to-day support to junior team members
• Collaborate with teammates across regions

Skills

Payroll operations

Compliance and controls

End-to-end payroll

Stakeholder management

Payroll transformation

Automation

System implementations

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Degree in HR / Business / Finance / Accounting

Job description

Requirements

• Degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field with at least 8 years of payroll experience
• Experience in MNC payroll operations, preferably in multiple countries
• Understanding of payroll processes, compliance, and controls

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end payroll operations which includes processing, checking, for a cluster of countries, ensuring payroll is delivered accurately, timely, and in compliance with statutory, regulatory, and company requirements
• Act as a key point of contact for the HR community, Finance, vendors, and external agencies, driving service excellence and effective issue resolution
• Govern payroll controls, compliance requirements, audits, reconciliations, and risk management activities to ensure a strong and sustainable control environment
• Lead payroll transformation initiatives, process optimization, automation, and digitalization efforts to improve operational efficiency, scalability, and employee experience
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to support payroll system implementations, technology enhancements, integrations, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Drive change management activities, including stakeholder engagement, communication planning, training, and adoption strategies to support business and payroll transformation
• Develop, maintain, and continuously enhance payroll policies, standard operating procedures, process documentation and control checklists
• Identify opportunities to standardize processes, strengthen governance, improve service delivery and reduce operational risks
• Support regional and global payroll projects, organizational changes, acquisitions, transitions, and new country deployments impacting payroll delivery
• Coach and provide day-to-day support to junior team members
• Collaborate with teammates across regions