Associate Manager - Payroll - Oil & Gas

Duties and Responsibilities :

- The Assistant Manager - India Payroll is a highly visible role with daily oversight of core end-to-end payroll process. This role collaborates with business partners, key vendors, tax authorities, to ensure payroll execution is timely and accurate.

- The Assistant Manager - India Payroll is the go-to subject matter expert regarding payroll team & vendor performance.

- Possessing an evolved technical and customer service aptitude, this role identifies trends which turn into actionable improvements, identifies and addresses training needs of the team, mentors/coach employees on tactical processing areas of opportunity and tracks performance to defined service level agreements.

- Creating a stable, standardized, consistent and pleasing operating environment is critical to ensure Shared Services meets and exceeds customer and leadership expectations.

- Manages the day to day activities of India Payroll Delivery, executing the entire payroll process for all employees.

- Internal stakeholder engagement

- Works with appropriate business unit customers on regular basis

- KPIs/Metrics review

- Escalation management

- Change management - actively communicate changes to policy/standards

- Manages vendor relationships with third-party vendors

- Assures appropriate compliance with regards to data privacy and retention of records

- Implement, monitor, and maintain compliance standards required for India Payroll

- Bring industry best practices and partner with HR team

- Proactive communication with team and leadership.

Preferred Education :

- Bachelor's/Master's Degree or global equivalent in Accounting or Finance.

Work Experience :

- Typically, 8 or more years of Payroll experience with at least 1 or more years of independent role handling experience with HR / Finance / IT systems experience.

Skills & Competencies:

- 8 to 10 years of payroll processing experience of 1000 plus employee organization in India.

- Experience in payroll accounting

- Experience to Oracle / SAP is a must.

- Exposure to various audits both internal and external

- Excellent MS suite experience and very sound on MS Excel skills

- Ability to engage with 3rd party payroll administrator for timely payroll disbursements

- Knowledge about stock based compensation accounting, RSU, Stock Options, ESPP etc.