Payroll Senior Analyst  – Global Payroll

Location: India

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Payroll Analyst to support the end-to-end processing of  payroll within a global shared services and operating model. The role will focus on delivering accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing activities while working closely with internal payroll teams, internal partners, , and external vendors.

Key Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end payroll processing as per defined service calendars.
• Execute payroll control activities including data validation, reconciliations, variance analysis, and post-payroll checks.
• Process payroll inputs including new hires, leavers, salary changes, bonuses, overtime, deductions, and statutory elements.
• Liaise with internal partners and employees to resolve payroll queries and data issues.
• Work with external payroll vendors to support accurate payroll delivery and issue resolution.
• Support post payroll reporting activities.
• Ensure payroll processing aligns with internal controls, audit requirements, and regional governance standards.
• Maintain payroll process documentation, standard operating procedures, (SOPs) and knowledge transfer materials.
• Participate in payroll transition, stabilisation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Preferable Experience & Skills

• 5+ years’ experience supporting payroll processing, ideally within global payroll environments.
• Strong understanding of payroll fundamentals (gross-to-net, statutory deductions, payroll controls).
• Experience with enterprise payroll systems.
• Proficient Microsoft Excel skills and analytical capability.
• Good attention to detail and ability to work to strict payroll deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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