rhi is recruiting a Payroll & Local Delivery Specialist to join our clients team based in KL, Malaysia.The role supports their New Zealand retail payroll portfolioand HR services.
Duration: Until August 2027
When: Immediate start
Shirt hours: 6.00am - 3.00pm - Mon to Friday
Hybrid: Office 3 days - WFH 2 days
Temp Rate: 5,000 to 6,000 p.m MYR
The Payroll & Local Delivery Senior Specialist is accountable for supporting the New Zealand/APAC 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 & HR guidance to P&C, employees, and line managers.
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.
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.
If you believe this opportunity is right for you, please click the 'Apply ' button to submit your application.
Relevant CV only.
At this time, we will only consider applications with valid working rights for the specified country.
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Desired Skills and Experience
Payroll & Local Delivery Senior Specialist is accountable for supporting the New Zealand/APAC payroll processing and local administration activities