Payroll Operations Senior Analyst

Skill required: Payroll - Workday Payroll Accounting

Designation: Payroll Operations Senior Analyst

Qualifications:BCom/MCom/Master of Business Administration

Years of Experience:5 to 8 years

About Accenture

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What would you do

• The Payroll Senior Analyst will support accurate, timely and controlled delivery of assigned country payroll activities. The role will coordinate approved payroll inputs, validate employee changes, review preliminary payroll outputs, investigate variances, maintain control evidence, resolve payroll queries and work closely with payroll vendors and cross-functional stakeholders.
• High attention to detail and a strong quality mindset for time-sensitive payroll activities.
• Ability to prioritize tasks against fixed payroll calendars and manage multiple country or entity deadlines.
• Structured problem-solving and sound judgment to distinguish data issues, vendor calculation issues and items requiring escalation.
• Ownership, responsiveness and discipline in tracking actions through closure.
• 5-8 years of relevant payroll operations experience, preferably supporting multi-country or regional payroll delivery in a shared-services, managed-services or global business-services environment.
• Working knowledge of payroll inputs, employee lifecycle changes, gross-to-net output review, variance analysis, payroll controls, reconciliations and year-end support.
• Good understanding of confidentiality, data priv What are we looking for
• 5-8 years of relevant payroll operations experience, preferably supporting multi-country or regional payroll delivery in a shared-services, managed-services or global business-services environment.
• Working knowledge of payroll inputs, employee lifecycle changes, gross-to-net output review, variance analysis, payroll controls, reconciliations and year-end support.
• Good understanding of confidentiality, data privacy, maker-checker controls, segregation of duties, audit evidence and access-control requirements in payroll operations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including lookups, pivot
• Experience in global or regional payroll operations across multiple countries.
• Exposure to payroll transition, stabilization, UAT, process documentation or continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of basic payroll accounting interfaces and payroll-to-GL dependencies.
• Payroll certification or relevant country payroll training is an advantage. Roles and Responsibilities:
• Collect, consolidate, format and validate approved payroll inputs from HR, and other authorized source teams; track missing data and payroll cut-off adherence.
• Prepare and submit approved starter, leaver and employee master-data changes to the payroll vendor; validate effective dates, supporting documentation and completeness.
• Perform input checks and review preliminary payroll registers, variance reports and exception reports; identify, document and track discrepancies through closure.
• Complete assigned payroll checklists, reconciliations, control activities and evidence retention in line with SOPs and the payroll calendar.
• Coordinate payroll-cycle activities with internal stakeholders and payroll vendors, including input clarification, correction tracking, issue escalation and status reporting.
• Handle employee payroll tickets within agreed service levels; explain payroll outcomes using approved information and coordinate resolution of vendor or cross-functional issues.
• Support preparation or coordination of net-pay and statutory-payment information where defined in the SOP, while ensuring required approvals and segregation of duties are maintained.
• Collect supporting data and reports for statutory, year-end, audit and control requirements; maintain complete and retrievable evidence for activities performed.
• Prepare authorized payroll operational reports and support continuous improvement of templates, checks, knowledge content and repeatable processes.
• Escalate material exceptions, unresolved variances, control gaps, missed cut-offs and recurring vendor issues to the Payroll Specialist or Team Lead