Senior Global Payroll Lead — Precision & Compliance

ACCA Careers; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Castlery in Singapore is seeking a Senior Payroll Specialist to own payroll across global markets, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely processing.

You will reconcile inputs and outputs, maintain strong controls and audit trails, and partner with Finance for month-end and workforce cost reporting.

This role suits numerically strong professionals from payroll, finance or commercial analysis who enjoy solving problems and building scalable payroll processes.

Qualifications

• Strong numerical and analytical skills with high accuracy.
• Experience with reconciliations, variance analysis, and data integrity.
• Experience with payroll systems, HRIS, and Excel.
• Ability to work independently and manage deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Own the numbers. Manage end-to-end payroll across global markets, ensuring every pay run is accurate, compliant and on time.
• Reconcile everything. Validate payroll inputs and outputs, investigate variances and make sure every dollar can be accounted for.
• Build financial discipline into payroll. Maintain strong controls, documentation and audit trails across payroll, statutory submissions and employee payments.
• Turn payroll data into insight. Analyse payroll movements, exceptions and trends, and surface anything that doesn’t look right.
• Partner closely with Finance. Prepare payroll reports, reconciliations and supporting schedules for month-end, audits and workforce cost reporting.
• Solve problems at the root. Don’t just correct an error — understand why it happened and put the process or control in place so it doesn’t happen again.
• Make payroll smarter. Work with our People Systems team to automate manual work, improve system controls and build processes that scale.

Skills

Numerical skills

Analytical skills

Reconciliations

Data integrity

Payroll systems

Multimarket payroll

Tools

Excel

Job description

Castlery in Singapore is seeking a Senior Payroll Specialist to own payroll across global markets, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely processing.

You will reconcile inputs and outputs, maintain strong controls and audit trails, and partner with Finance for month-end and workforce cost reporting.

This role suits numerically strong professionals from payroll, finance or commercial analysis who enjoy solving problems and building scalable payroll processes.