About this role
Agoda is a leading travel platform that connects people to destinations and experiences. The International Payroll Partner will oversee the global payroll process, ensuring compliance and accuracy in payroll transactions across various countries while collaborating with internal teams and external vendors.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for monthly payroll activities such as collating and validating inputs, outputs, and statutory payments for assigned countries
- Coordinate with external payroll vendors to ensure timely and accurate payments and filing of taxes, social security funds, provident funds, and other third-party payments to government authorities
- Manage payroll vendors by strictly adhering to the contract and SLA and ensuring compliance with local regulatory requirements
- Manage inquiries relating to payroll matters from internal and external stakeholders, and provide advice as required
- Participate and support ad-hoc projects relating to new process implementations or enhancements and perform user testing on systems
- Lead and support payroll migration and integration initiatives, including vendor transitions, system upgrades, and process harmonization with minimal disruption
- Collaborate with internal People teams and external partners to set up processes, procedures, and policies for new payroll systems or countries
- Support external and internal audits
- Own and drive process improvement initiatives for respective assigned countries