Regional Payroll Partner - APAC

Your role and responsibilities

As ABB Robotics embarks on its journey as a standalone global leader in automation, we are looking for Payroll Partner to steer our payroll operations through this transformative phase. You will be the guardian of payroll accuracy for our APAC region supporting a cluster of countries, ensuring our employees are paid accurately and on time as we integrate new talent from the SoftBank Group acquisition.

You won't just be doing payroll you will be managing the integrity of the ecosystem between Workday, our employees, and our Global Payroll Vendor.

The work model for the role is: #L-_hybrid

This role is contributing to ABB Robotics and is based in Bangalore, India

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Manage end-to-end payroll cycles for your assigned region, acting as the primary point of contact for our outsourced payroll provider.
• Perform rigorous audits of payroll inputs (joiners, leavers, adjustments, time & absence) within Workday to ensure data integrity before transmission to the vendor.
• Execute second-level validation of gross-to-net and net-to-pay calculations, ensuring compliance with local tax laws and social security regulations.
• Oversee the validation of Time & Attendance data to ensure seamless flow into the payroll engine.
• Support the carve-out activities, helping to migrate legacy processes into the new global delivery model and vendor framework.
• Act as the Tier 2 supports specialist for complex employee queries and vendor delivery failures, ensuring high satisfaction across the cluster.
• Identify process gaps during the post-acquisition integration and drive standardizations across the regional cluster.
• Act as a primary partner to all ABB Robotics local teams to represent payroll on cross-functional projects and deliver business value

• 5-8 years of hands-on payroll experience supporting respective regions, preferably within a high-growth or multinational environment.
• Proven track record in a Shared Services (SSC) environment using a Global Vendor/Outsourced model.
• Strong proficiency in Workday (HCM/Time and system integrations) is highly preferred.
• Advanced ability to reconcile complex datasets and perform deep-dive audits on gross-to-net calculations.
• Resilience in the face of change, a consultative approach to vendor management, and the ability to navigate a carve-out/integration.