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Senior Manager, Payroll Accounting
Global Financial Services | Record to Report
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Position Summary
The Senior Manager, Payroll Accounting is responsible for leading the execution and operational performance of global payroll accounting activities, helping ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, strong controls, and high-quality delivery across the end-to-end payroll accounting process.
Based in Hyderabad, this role will provide senior operational leadership across payroll accounting activities, including period-end close, journal entries, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, issue resolution, and reporting. The Senior Manager will partner closely with the Payroll Accounting Global Process Owner (GPO), Controllership, Country Controllers, People Services, Treasury, external payroll providers, and business process outsourcing partners to deliver consistent, well-controlled, and scalable payroll accounting operations.
The role will also play an important part in strengthening the global payroll accounting operating model through process standardization, automation, continuous improvement, and development of team capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
Payroll Accounting Leadership & Oversight
Lead the operational execution of global payroll accounting activities in alignment with GPO-defined processes, accounting policies, and control requirements.
Provide oversight across key payroll accounting activities, including compensation, benefits, journal entries, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and related financial reporting.
Serve as a senior escalation point for payroll accounting issues, including ADP-to-SAP interface discrepancies, and coordinate resolution across appropriate stakeholders.
Drive high standards of accuracy, timeliness, consistency, and accountability across payroll accounting operations.
Month-End and Quarter-End Close
Lead payroll accounting period-end close activities and key financial reporting deliverables.
Provide oversight of payroll-related journals, accruals, reconciliations, and other close activities.
Monitor and escalate material issues that could affect close timelines, financial reporting, or control execution.
Business Partnership & Operational Excellence
Partner closely with the Payroll Accounting GPO, People Services, Controllership, Country Controllers, Treasury, payroll providers, and business process outsourcing partners to resolve issues and strengthen end-to-end execution.
Identify and drive opportunities for process standardization, simplification, automation, and continuous improvement.
Support implementation of global process improvements and ensure sustainable adoption within operations.
Use operational insights and performance indicators to identify emerging issues and improvement opportunities.
Risk Management & Controls
Identify and communicate material operational, financial reporting, and control risks across payroll accounting.
Coordinate appropriate remediation and contingency plans with relevant stakeholders.
Maintain a strong control environment across payroll accounting activities and support compliance with applicable accounting policies, controls,…