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Senior Payroll Specialist (APAC)

Nebius· Finance
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Hyderabad, IndiaFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Payroll Specialist-APAC owns end-to-end payroll for APAC entities and provides hands-on US payroll support. Focuses on harmonizing and improving payroll execution, compliance, and controls across APAC while ensuring continuity during peak periods and absences.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end payroll execution for the company’s APAC entities across countries, pay groups, and payroll providers; define consistent execution standards that meet each jurisdiction’s statutory and employment requirements.
  • Ensure statutory compliance across APAC jurisdictions: income tax withholding, social security and provident fund contributions, employer levies, monthly and annual statutory filings and employee tax certificates, new-country and new-entity registrations, and timely resolution of authority notices.
  • Administer regulated and complex pay items accurately: statutory bonuses and gratuity, leave encashment, full-and-final settlements, equity income (RSU/option) taxation, benefits deductions, taxable perquisites, and expatriate or cross-border arrangements.
  • Support US payroll execution alongside the US payroll owner: process and review multistate pay cycles and off-cycle payments, own assigned workstreams in the US payroll calendar, share year-end delivery (W-2 season), and provide full continuity during peak periods and absences.
  • Drive process harmonization and simplification across APAC countries to reduce manual steps, handoffs, rework, and off-cycle runs.
  • Lead payroll execution during transitions (new country or entity launches, vendor changes, system changes, restructures/M&A), ensuring continuity and control.
  • Ensure payroll accounting remains clean as scope changes: consistent journals, accruals, reversals, and reconciliation standards across entities and currencies.
  • Monitor preventative controls by design, including SOX-aligned payroll controls; improve evidence pack quality and audit readiness.
  • Govern payroll providers against agreed SLAs and KPIs; drive remediation where service quality falls short.
  • Lead root-cause analysis for recurring payroll, accounting, or service failures; design and implement durable fixes.
  • Act as escalation owner for complex or sensitive pay issues in the region; provide authoritative explanations to senior stakeholders.
  • Partner with HR Ops, Finance, Legal/Compliance, benefits providers, and payroll vendors to deliver scalable operating models and service quality.
  • Provide training and guidance to new team joiners when needed.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of payroll experience spanning APAC and US payrolls, including multi-country scope with in-country providers in complex environments (growth, change, or hybrid in-house/outsourced models).
  • Deep working knowledge of payroll and employment-tax compliance across APAC jurisdictions, including India: statutory withholding and social contributions, statutory bonuses and terminations, year-end reporting, and expatriate/cross-border considerations.
  • Working knowledge of US payroll fundamentals (multi-state withholding, FICA/FUTA/SUI, W-2 year-end) and readiness to act as the designated US backup, including overlap with US working hours when covering.
  • Strong payroll controllership skills: ability to design controls, enforce SoD/approvals, and ensure audit-ready evidence.
  • Proven capability improving payroll processes (standardization, automation enablement, reducing manual effort and errors).
  • Strong payroll accounting knowledge, including multi-currency environments, and experience working with Finance during close and audits.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead transitions (vendor/system/new country or entity) with structured planning and issue resolution.
  • Excellent stakeholder management across time zones and cultures; comfortable acting as an escalation owner and payroll authority.

Skills

Required:Payroll executionStatutory compliance (APAC)US payroll fundamentals

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Career growth and learning opportunities
  • Flexibility and ownership
  • Collaborative and innovative culture
  • Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
  • International environment and talented teams
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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