Payroll Specialist (Philippines Remote)

🇵🇭In-Person - Manila, Philippines₱480K–₱720K/yriJust now

Corporate Finance Payroll Management Finance Operations Compliance Multi Country Payroll Accounts Operations

Role Snapshot

The Payroll Specialist – APAC manages end-to-end payroll processing across 15+ countries in the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll delivery for Turnitin employees across multiple legal entities.

Key Responsibilities: Process multi-country payroll transactions including new hires, terminations, compensation changes, and deductions using CloudPay and PayAsia/Deel platforms while maintaining compliance with country-specific statutory requirements. Perform payroll reconciliation, variance analysis, tax reporting, year-end tax form issuance, and coordinate cross-functional collaboration with HR, Finance, Legal, and Benefits teams.

Skills & Tools: Proficiency in payroll processing software (CloudPay, PayAsia/Deel), multi-country tax compliance knowledge, strong analytical and reconciliation abilities, and excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.

Qualifications: Typically 2-4 years of payroll or accounting experience with exposure to multi-country payroll processing and tax compliance requirements. Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and familiarity with payroll systems and regulatory environments preferred.

Location: In-Person - Manila, Philippines

Compensation: ₱480K–₱720K/yr (estimated)

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Job Description

The Global Payroll team at Turnitin is responsible for delivering accurate, compliant, and timely payroll across 15+ countries and 18 legal entities worldwide. The Payroll Specialist – APAC is responsible for managing end-to-end payroll processing across the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring compliance with country-specific statutory requirements while supporting a positive employee experience. The primary customers of this role are Turnitin employees across APAC, supported by payroll vendors CloudPay and PayAsia/Deel. This role works cross-functionally with the HR/People, Finance, Legal, and Benefits teams.

Responsibilities:

Maintains end-to-end payroll workflows to ensure all transactions — including employee job changes, one-time payments, deduction changes, garnishments, compensation changes, new hires, terminations, inter-company transfers, and final payments — are processed accurately and in compliance with country-specific statutory requirements.
Manages multi-country payroll processing across APAC regions utilizing CloudPay, ensuring timely and accurate payroll delivery across multiple legal entities.
Completes payroll reconciliation following a thorough review of payroll input and audit reports, including variance analysis and sign-off documentation.
Works with payroll vendors and regional tax authorities to ensure compliance with all reporting requirements and ensures payroll taxes are paid and reported to the appropriate jurisdictions in a timely manner.
Assists with preparing and filing tax reports and gathering payroll data for inclusion in financial statements and audits.
Coordinates the year-end process for assigned APAC regions to ensure timely and accurate issuance of end-of-year tax forms.
Partners cross-functionally with HR/People, Finance, Legal, and Benefits teams to ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll-impacting changes.
Responds timely and professionally to employee and stakeholder inquiries.
Identifies and escalates payroll discrepancies, vendor issues, and compliance risks to the Senior Manager of Global Payroll in a timely manner.