Assistant General Manager - Payroll Governance - Manufacturing

Description:

- Partner with Human Resources in working with HRMS/HRIS, managing the full life-cycle implementation of the payroll, time and attendance systems and to ensure employee records are current and accurate.

- Partner with Accounting and Treasury to verify that all payroll payments are properly recorded in the General Ledger, that all payroll-related accounts are reconciled properly, and that all payments are reflected accurately on each employees record.

- Seen as a subject matter expert on all labor and workload-related issues.

- Coordinate and manage entire payroll function.

- Develop, lead and mentor a large payroll team that is customer service centric to our employees and business partners.

- Enforce established payroll related policies and regulations.

- Create and implement training for team members on use of payroll system.

- Negotiates Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with internal and external stakeholders, establishes customer and service-center performance requirements.

- Critically review and analyze current practices and identify process improvements leading to best-practice operations.

- Lead process improvement events and activities to ensure policy & processes are harmonized, automated and efficiently being executed on a regular basis.

- Ensure the proper controls and procedures are in place, documented and followed working with internal audit in testing the effectiveness of the controls.

- Partner with customers, vendors and other technical expertise to ensure payroll systems and solutions meet the companys needs and strategic goals

Payroll:

- Act as project manager for various strategic initiatives to continually improve, harmonize and centralize payroll setup and activities.

- Communicate actively with department heads, HR and Finance to ensure proper compliance with internal and external policies and coding from a budgetary perspective.

- Manage regular preparation of relevant reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year-end reports periodic reports of earnings, taxes, and deductions.

- Partner with Analytics Manager who supports Desktop Payroll to run various analyses and determine what type of reports to run to provide insights into whats going on with the business.

- Manage and ensure the weekly, biweekly & monthly disbursement of multi-state payroll of 7k+ employees for multiple Sectors across PAN India.

- Certify systems are established to optimize workflow, meet the needs of the payroll rules as dictated by internal policies and collective bargaining agreement, maximize technical efficiencies, and secure data.

- Demonstrate technical expertise on the automated systems and processes in designated areas of responsibility.

- Manage the governance, functional, and operational aspects and processes associated with an integrated payroll system.

- Strategy and Roadmap Work closely with the Payroll Solution Architecture team to partner on strategic opportunities and enabling technologies.

- Lead and facilitate the integration of the payroll system ensuring it meets business requirements help to expeditiously resolve system issues.

- Lead the integration of any newly acquired/added companies into the payroll system.

Policy and Process:

- Monitor the input calendar and ensure necessary controls are implemented.

Process Improvement:

- Identify gaps in current processes and ensure implementation of robust processes for operational Excellence and 100% Audit compliance.

- Develop SOPs/Process Maps/Process Guides for the existing activities under the purview of Payroll department.

Team Management & Development:

- Set clear goals and expectations from the team and standardize benchmarks for performance review.

- Ensure periodic review of team members and give objective performance feedback.

- Ensure 100% training of team members on all Payroll process, SAP and Successfactors related matters.

- Mentor the team members to add value to their day-to-day work.

- Implement Employee Engagement Action points as planned to enhance engagement levels and reduce attrition.