Payroll Specialist

Position Title: Payroll Specialist

Location: Bangalore, India

Key Skills: monthly payroll, salary, allowances, variable pay, tax, pension, data, reporting, analytics, details

Who Are We?

Bottomline Technologies are transforming business payments and processes for companies and financial institutions around the world. Obsessed with removing complexity and allowing people to simply Pay and Get Paid. Automating and digitising all that is possible. Every day. We empower customer satisfaction through growth is new markets.

Culture and Values

We are a team of people who are strongly committed to maintain our fantastic culture, and ensuring our values and principles are lived out daily. We share ideas, innovate together and support each other personally and professionally in order to delight our customers! Working collaboratively with customers, partners and each other, we achieve a common goal of exceeding customer expectations.

Job Summary

The purpose of this role is to provide expert advice, guidance and administration across the People Success (HR) function, with a specific focus on processing monthly payroll activities. The successful candidate will be accountable for the provision of reliable, accurate and timely data reporting, while building significant process improvements to modernize the function, creating greater efficiency.

Job Description

• Process high volume monthly payroll from start to finish
• Transform the payroll provision through streamlining processes
• Education the business on requirements for timely and consistent submissions
• Accountable for providing consistently accurate payroll administration for basic salaries, regular allowances and variable pay. Also, to include commission, overtime, standby and quarterly bonus cycles.
• Utilise a strong knowledge of tax legislation to respond to global queries
• Employ a strong working knowledge of legislation and associated reporting requirements for payroll
• Process all pay components including variable pay, leave, sickness, absence, and taxes
• Be accountable for processing benefits including deductions, pension schemes, health care, income protection, life assurance and flexible benefits.
• Produce and validate reporting outputs including analytics to share with leadership
• Ensure all data is accurate, reliable and within pre-set deadlines
• Provide accurate data entry, providing recommendations and implementation of action to achieve continuous improvement and efficiencies
• Demonstrate ongoing compliance, keeping up to date with external development including statutory changes
• Recommend and implement process improvements and system updates to ensure we are consistently best in class

Required Skills

• A strong knowledge of all payroll related matters
• Multi National payroll experience preferred
• A excellent knowledge of payroll systems
• A strong knowledge of HR systems, preferably Ceridian
• Experience working within a fast-paced, deadline driven environment
• Strong experience reconciling and auditing data
• Ability to produce, manipulate and interpret high volumes of complex data
• A strong knowledge of tax and pensions is key to success
• Adherence to Data Privacy Laws, highly confidential, sensitive with extreme professionalism
• Advanced excel skills
• An excellent collaborator, building relationships and managing key stakeholders
• Meticulous attention to details
• Strong communication skills