Payroll & Local Delivery Senior Specialist

Overview

rhi is recruiting 2x Payroll & Local Delivery Senior Specialists to join our clients team based in KL, Malaysia on a 12-month contract.

• Candidate with general local delivery (NZL & AUS) - such as local statutory, legislative and etc.
• Open to candidate from other background not limited to oil & gas
• Candidate must have SAP knowledge and experience
• Hybrid working arrangement (60/40)
• Malaysia working hours (6.00AM - 3.00PM)
• Open to hiring candidates based in India

The Payroll & Local Delivery Senior Specialist is accountable for supporting payroll processing and local administration activities for entities assigned. The incumbent is responsible for:

• Maintaining the integrity and confidentiality of employee information.
• Applying payroll knowledge and expertise to process company payrolls, including Award/EA requirements, for fortnightly and monthly pay cycles.
• Managing payroll activities and reconciling related general ledger accounts.
• Ensuring compliance with company, regulatory, and statutory requirements for payroll payments, such as taxation, KiwiSaver/superannuation, 3rd party payments to clearing house/Finance.
• Providing payroll guidance to P&C, employees, and line managers.

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide timely and accurate payroll advice to employees and people leaders, including guidance on KiwiSaver/superannuation, allowances, pay discrepancies and, where applicable, car lease deductions.
• Validate, process and administer salary payments for graded and award employees across weekly/fortnightly and monthly payroll cycles, ensuring accuracy and timely completion of bank file creation and transmission.
• Ensure payroll data is accurately interfaced to the relevant general ledger, complete IRD/ATO and third-party deduction requirements, and investigate payroll balance sheet reconciliation items within required timeframes.
• Ensure payslips are published accurately and within agreed payroll timelines.
• Prepare and issue payment summary advice in accordance with established requirements.
• Complete year-end payment summary reconciliations, reporting, payment summaries and IRD/ATO file production for our client group companies in line with statutory obligations.
• Prepare accurate and timely responses to ticket/requests.
• Manage KiwiSaver/superannuation interface remittance and reconciliation activities in accordance with required timelines and controls.
• Support internal and external audit activities by providing relevant payroll documentation, evidence and responses as required.

Qualifications

About you:

A university degree or professional qualification, in finance, accounting, human resources, professional payroll certification or its equivalent.

Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience preferably in handling New Zealand payroll processing & administration, employment law, statutory and effective HR processes. It’ll be a plus point if candidate also has AU experience

Technical Capability:

• Preferred experience in an HR shared services or service centre environment within a multinational organisation.
• Strong end-to-end payroll administration and processing knowledge, including experience with time and attendance systems.
• Ability to accurately interpret and apply enterprise agreements and award conditions.
• Experience in general ledger reconciliations, payroll postings and journal entries.
• High level of accuracy, attention to detail and numeracy.
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Demonstrated digital fluency and ability to use technology to improve ways of working and support business transformation across people, processes and data.
• Demonstrated commitment to audit, statutory and regulatory compliance requirements.

About rhi

rhi is a professional services provider with global expertise. Tracing our history back to the 19th century, we have spent the last 50 years as a global leader to the energy industry.

We combine efficient systems and processes with a deep understanding of client challenges and market insight. We work with our clients to deliver information and resources that will support every stage of their operations. We deliver value to our employees, our clients and the countries that we work in.

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Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.

If you believe this opportunity is right for you, please click the ‘Apply ’ button to submit your application. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. At this time, we will only consider applications with valid working rights for the specified country.

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