Senior Manager - Payroll

About Organization:

WPP Group Indian operations are well established in the areas of Advertising; Media Investment Management; Information, Insight & Consultancy; Public Relations; Branding & Identity; Direct, Internet and Interactive.

WPP SSC India was created by WPP to provide the back-office functions and transactional finance work for the WPP agencies in India. Our customers are the agencies of WPP. We want to add value to the work we do and the service we provide by making our processes and systems efficient, consistent, and transparent.

Company website:- www.wpp.com

Location: Vikhroli (East), Mumbai

Job role:- Senior Manager - Payroll

What you’ll be doing:

• Your scope includes India payroll operations for multiple WPP entities Working closely with existing stakeholders to ensure accurate and on-time payroll processing.
• Overall delivery of end-to-end payroll operations Provide support, and direction to the payroll team leaders and members on the team.
• Work with team for preparing and adhering to a schedule / payroll calendar and agreeing the timelines with payroll vendors and other internal stakeholders.
• Prepare payroll funding forecasts and making sure the payroll payments are delivered accurately and on time.
• Support monthly/quarterly accounting close activities, account maintenance and reconciliations, financial reporting and variance analysis, etc.
• Provide hand off to the accounting teams post payroll close to ensure accounting of payroll within the timelines prescribed by the close calendar.
• Ensure compliance with local jurisdictions for activities within the payroll domain including statutory filings and key internal and external annual audits.
• Monitor and measure the SLAs as agreed with the payroll vendor. Raise matters where there are slippages and recommend corrective action to management.
• Provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Help with annual performance review of team members.
• Actively participate in identifying potential payroll vendors, drive meetings, transition efforts to migrate payroll to the payroll vendor.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes. Recommend process improvements including assisting with the design and implementation of internal control measures to ensure proper payment authorizations and segregation of duties.
• Providing excellent payroll support to employees and cross-functional teams by addressing inquiries, concerns, and requests.
• Creating and/or maintaining payroll documentation as it relates to processing, operational procedures, compliance, and other payroll-related matters.
• Handle external and internal audits for the area of payroll.

What you’ll need:

• 18+ years of India inhouse payroll experience.
• Ability to work efficiently and independently, handle pressure.
• Collaborative and great teammate
• Should be capable in doing multitasking and should be quick in doing right delegation and decision making.
• Must be dynamic, having an eye on details and able to work well under deadlines in a changing environment.
• Should be good in Microsoft Office. Especially in Excel, Word, Vision, and Power-point.
• Should be innovative to adopt the technology change in the process for smoother operations.
• Should be excellent in communication skills and team handling.
• Should be excellent in presentation skills.

What we'll give you:

• Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
• Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
• Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?