Senior Payroll Partner

About the role

The Global Payroll team at Airwallex is responsible for delivering accurate, timely, and compliant payroll for employees across all of our entities and markets worldwide. This role is based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Manage global payroll operations, including ensuring accurate and efficient payroll processing, compliance with region-specific securities regulations and employment tax requirements, reconciliations, month-end/year end close procedures.
• Review and automate employee separation calculations templates for redundancies, resignations, terminations (Employee Termination Payments).
• Provide in-depth analysis and insights on global payroll data, that can be used by Finance/HR to forecast/ understand trends in employee costs.
• Identify and implement improvements to Payroll processes and sub processes.
• Partner with legal and HR to drive implementation of new entity set up and “Employment of Record” services as part of international expansion efforts.
• Resolve employee/stakeholder queries raised via JIRA/slack channels.
• Develop a process payroll knowledge repository in the form of documents, FAQs, response templates.
• Familiar with private equity, RSU, ESOP schemes and reporting requirements.
• Drive process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and employee experience in payroll operations.
• Lead the implementation of a single & unified global payroll solution for each entity in the organization.
• Maximize payroll data and workflow automations by leveraging system integrations capabilities of the payroll system.
• Support the evolution of payroll systems and tools to ensure effective optimisation and best practice procedures are implemented and executed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field preferred
• Minimum 5 years of regional experience working in end-to-end payroll processing
• Self-motivated individual with the ability to work independently and as part of a team, with excellent time-management and organizational skills
• Familiarity with payroll vendor management, and HRIS/payroll integration projects
• Attention to detail and accuracy, with the ability to handle confidential and sensitive information securely
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ability to identify and resolve payroll discrepancies and issues
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to analyze data and generate meaningful reports for management

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with internal stakeholders at all levels
• Proven ability to adapt and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment