Payroll Specialist

🇵🇭Remote - Manila, Philippines₱360K–₱540K/yriJust now

Corporate Finance Payroll Administration Finance Operations Compliance Management Multi Country Payroll Employee Operations

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Role Snapshot

The Payroll Specialist – APAC manages end-to-end payroll processing across multiple Asia-Pacific legal entities, ensuring statutory compliance and timely, accurate pay for Turnitin employees. The role works with payroll vendors (CloudPay, PayAsia/Deel) and cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities: Processes payroll workflows, including new hires, terminations, compensation and deduction changes, and final pay, and handles multi-country payroll runs and reconciliations. Also handles payroll tax filings, year-end tax form coordination, and escalation of discrepancies and compliance risks.

Skills & Tools: Strong knowledge of payroll processing and APAC statutory requirements, with proficiency in payroll systems such as CloudPay. Requires attention to detail, variance analysis skills, and the ability to communicate professionally with employees and stakeholders.

Qualifications: Experience in multi-country or regional payroll administration, ideally in APAC, with familiarity in payroll tax and compliance reporting. A relevant degree or equivalent practical experience is typically expected.

Location: Remote - Manila, Philippines

Compensation: ₱360K–₱540K/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.