Manager, Payroll Project

**Location: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia**
**Requisition ID: 61066**

**Schindler stands for mobility. Mobility needs experts.**
**Join our team in Petaling Jaya.**:
Founded in Switzerland in 1874, the Schindler Group is a leading global provider of elevators, escalators, and related services. Schindler mobility solutions move one billion people every day all over the world. Behind the company's success are over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries.

Jardine Schindler Group (JSG) is a joint venture between Jardine Matheson (est.1832) and Schindler Group(est.1874). JSG is specialized in design, engineer, install, maintain and modernize elevators, escalators and moving walkways in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Macau, Myanmar, Brunei and Cambodia. On average, 100 million people throughout the Asia Pacific regions will be transported by equipment supplied and maintained by JSG on any given day.

**Manager, Payroll Project & Operations**:
**Mobility is the goal***:

- Lead the strategic payroll program and project to drive for stakeholder management strategic decision to develop business solutions
- Oversee payroll operation in Malaysia and Singapore currently and across other Operating Countries in future
- Prepare various corporate reports to the stakeholders/other functions as well as Management.
- Always work on the processes for improvement and build a strong partnership with payroll vendors across the Operating Countries and other stakeholders across the globe.
- Provide oversight to payroll reviews, approvals and both external and internal audits ensuring accuracy and timeliness of payroll activities, while maintaining compliance.
- Take charge on various testing in system enhancement and provide scenarios for testing with the payroll vendor and internally.
- Involve in process improvement aligned with global requirements
- Follow up on issues brought up by the business from time-to-time.
- Work closely with internal and external statutory consultant to ensure on the local compliance and statutory setup in payroll vendor’s system and involve in the year end processing for the Operating Countries
- Manage the SLAs of payroll vendor, local payroll team and stakeholders and work closely with them on the issues and improvements on the SLAs.
- Working with senior leadership to define strategy/strategic direction, oversight and management of team budget, payroll operations reporting and proactively manage risk and concerns, escalating matters (where required).
- As Payroll Lead develop, coach and mentor the payroll team, foster knowledge sharing, confidence, learning and development, driving continuous improvement in the team.
- Experience working in multi-region, cross-country teams favorable.
- Provide strategic direction to team regarding deliverables, priorities, team resourcing and capacity management.
- Provide advice regarding payroll legislation, local statutory requirements, and/or policy requirements.
- Support program/project communications and including team calls, agenda and materials to keep relevant stakeholders informed and engaged
- Local oversite of payroll functions within the Operating Countries with medium to high complexity and international governance, risk and compliance elements.
- Responsible for providing guidance to the leadership on requirements, advising business functions on payroll risk and compliance as well as any associated organisational impacts.
- Identifies payroll key steps and logically organizes own work to meet deadlines.
- Identify and keep informed all stakeholders involved in the Payroll Process
- Proactively lead and support the documentation of payroll processes and documentation to ensure business continuity
- Provide support to the Group Human Resources initiatives and projects.
- Perform other ad-hoc duties from time to time as required by the Immediate Manager.

**Mobility needs you***:

- Highly organised and able to prioritise workload effectively.
- Self-Starter, ability to solve problems and think creatively.
- Experience working with payroll vendors
- Excellent time and project management skills, with strong attention to detail.
- Propose and implement ongoing improvements to JSG’s recruitment efforts.
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment and work with all levels of management
- Clear desire to make work fun and enjoyable within a teamwork environment

**Profesional Skills**
- University Degree
- Demonstrate ability to influence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Experience recruiting across the region.
- Understand change
- Ability to analyse problems and issues
- Demonstrate adaptability and learning
- Expert computer skills including advanced knowledge of: SAP, SuccessFactors, MS Office Word and Excel

**Do you want to move the future with us?***:
Izma Idayu Bakar