Senior Compensation & Benefit Specialist (C&B/ HR/ 4+ YoE)

A Brief Overview

The Senior Compensation & Benefit Specialist is responsible for delivering accurate and compliant payroll operations, maintaining payroll data integrity, and providing Compensation & Benefit related consultancy on payroll policies, processes, and regulatory requirements. The role also supports workforce cost analysis, reporting, and budgeting activities while partnering with HR, Finance, and business stakeholders to enhance payroll effectiveness, compliance, and employee experience through continuous process improvement.

Responsibilities

1. Payroll Processing & Administration

• Review payroll input data (attendance records, additional earnings and other payroll related information), implement monthly payroll processing, ensuring accurate and timely calculation of salaries, overtime, incentives, benefits, and other payroll-related payments.
• Maintain, validate, and administer payroll data and records across payroll and HR systems, including compensation changes, employee lifecycle events, benefits updates, leave transactions, and other payroll-related information to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
• Administer personal income tax processes, including tax calculation, withholding, filing, and annual tax finalization in compliance with applicable regulations.
• Prepare, maintain, and retain payroll-related records, documentation, and reports, including salary payments, bonus payments, and other employee compensation transactions.

2. Compliance & Resolution

• Maintain payroll legislation, tax, social insurance, and other regulatory requirements to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Investigate and resolve payroll discrepancies, employee inquiries, and escalated payroll issues, providing consultancy on payroll policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Assess regulatory changes and recommend updates to payroll processes, controls, and practices to mitigate risk and strengthen governance.

3. Workforce Costing & Reporting

• Prepare and analyze workforce cost data, including payroll expenses, benefits, statutory costs, incentives, and other employee-related expenditures to support budgeting, forecasting, and workforce planning activities.
• Provide workforce cost insights, variance analysis, and reporting to support business decision-making and ensure accuracy of labor cost projections.

4. Stakeholder Partnership & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with other HR functions, Finance, and business stakeholders to reconcile data between HR and accounting systems and related reports, and support payroll operations, system enhancements, and process improvement initiatives.
• Serve as a C&B contact point, providing consultancy to employees and team members and contributing to initiatives that improve payroll accuracy, efficiency, compliance, and employee experience.

5. Other reasonable tasks as assigned.