Payroll Specialist

🇵🇭In-Person - Manila, Philippines₱360K–₱540K/yri1h ago

Corporate Finance Payroll Processing Finance Operations Compliance Management Multi Country Payroll HR Finance Partnership

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Role Snapshot

The Payroll Specialist – APAC manages end-to-end payroll processing across the Asia-Pacific region for a global SaaS company, ensuring compliance with country-specific statutory requirements and supporting positive employee experiences across 15+ countries.

Key Responsibilities: Process multi-country payroll transactions including new hires, terminations, compensation changes, and garnishments using CloudPay and PayAsia/Deel platforms. Reconcile payroll data, manage tax compliance and reporting, coordinate year-end processes, and partner cross-functionally with HR, Finance, Legal, and Benefits teams.

Skills & Tools: Proficiency with payroll processing systems (CloudPay, PayAsia/Deel), strong knowledge of multi-country tax and statutory compliance requirements, attention to detail for reconciliation and audit work, and excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Qualifications: Experience with payroll processing, multi-country compliance, and APAC payroll systems is required; experience with CloudPay or similar enterprise payroll platforms is preferred. Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field is typically expected.

Location: In-Person - 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.