Payroll Operations Senior Analyst

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Skill required: Payroll - Workday Payroll Accounting Designation: Payroll Operations Senior Analyst Qualifications:BCom/MCom/Master of Business Administration Years of Experience:5 to 8 years About Accenture Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song— all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 784,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com What would you do? • The Payroll Senior Analyst will support accurate, timely and controlled delivery of assigned country payroll activities. The role will coordinate approved payroll inputs, validate employee changes, review preliminary payroll outputs, investigate variances, maintain control evidence, resolve payroll queries and work closely with payroll vendors and cross-functional stakeholders. • • High attention to detail and a strong quality mindset for time-sensitive payroll activities. • • Ability to prioritize tasks against fixed payroll calendars and manage multiple country or entity deadlines. • • Structured problem-solving and sound judgment to distinguish data issues, vendor calculation issues and items requiring escalation. • • Ownership, responsiveness and discipline in tracking actions through closure. • 5-8 years of relevant payroll operations experience, preferably supporting multi-country or regional payroll delivery in a shared-services, managed-services or global business-services environment.• •Working knowledge of payroll inputs, employee lifecycle changes, gross-to-net output review, variance analysis, payroll controls, reconciliations and year-end support.• Good understanding of confidentiality, data priv What are we looking for? • 5-8 years of relevant payroll operations experience, preferably supporting multi-country or regional payroll delivery in a shared-services, managed-services or global business-services environment.• Working knowledge of payroll inputs, employee lifecycle changes, gross-to-net output review, variance analysis, payroll controls, reconciliations and year-end support.• Good understanding of confidentiality, data privacy, maker-checker controls, segregation of duties, audit evidence and access-control requirements in payroll operations.• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including lookups, pivot • Experience in global or regional payroll operations across multiple countries. • Exposure to payroll transition, stabilization, UAT, process documentation or continuous-improvement initiatives. • Knowledge of basic payroll accounting interfaces and payroll-to-GL dependencies. • Payroll certification or relevant country payroll training is an advantage. Roles and Responsibilities: • Collect, consolidate, format and validate approved payroll inputs from HR, and other authorized source teams; track missing data and payroll cut-off adherence. • Prepare and submit approved starter, leaver and employee master-data changes to the payroll vendor; validate effective dates, supporting documentation and completeness. • Perform input checks and review preliminary payroll registers, variance reports and exception reports; identify, document and track discrepancies through closure. • Complete assigned payroll checklists, reconciliations, control activities and evidence retention in line with SOPs and the payroll calendar. • Coordinate payroll-cycle activities with internal stakeholders and payroll vendors, including input clarification, correction tracking, issue escalation and status reporting. • Handle employee payroll tickets within agreed service levels; explain payroll outcomes using approved information and coordinate resolution of vendor or cross-functional issues. • Support preparation or coordination of net-pay and statutory-payment information where defined in the SOP, while ensuring required approvals and segregation of duties are maintained. • Collect supporting data and reports for statutory, year-end, audit and control requirements; maintain complete and retrievable evidence for activities performed. • Prepare authorized payroll operational reports and support continuous improvement of templates, checks, knowledge content and repeatable processes. • Escalate material exceptions, unresolved variances, control gaps, missed cut-offs and recurring vendor issues to the Payroll Specialist or Team Lead BCom,MCom,Master of Business Administration 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.Visit us at www.accenture.com Equal Employment Opportunity Statement We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, military veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.