The Payroll Manager – Asia Pacific (APAC) will lead a team of up to 10 overseeing payroll operations working closely with outsourced partners across multiple countries in the region.
The role will be the escalation point for complex payroll issues and ensure strict adherence to local labour laws and tax regulations. Responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery while supporting tech‑industry demands such as global mobility, equity compensation, scalable processes, and high‑growth workforce expansion. Partnering closely with HR, Finance, Compensation and Benefits, Global Mobility, and external vendors (Dayforce and EX3 who manage our Employee Central Payroll) to deliver a world‑class payroll experience in a dynamic and innovative environment.
1. Strategic Regional Leadership
- Define and execute the regional payroll strategy that supports rapid scaling, new country expansion, harmonisation and merging of entities and evolving tech‑industry regulatory requirements.
- Serve as the senior payroll advisor to People/HR leadership, Finance, and executive teams on APAC payroll matters.
- Anticipate business needs in a high-growth, high-change environment and proactively adapt processes.
- Leading on payroll projects including acquisition integration, systems implementation, migration and continuous improvement activities
2. Governance, Controls & Compliance
- Ensure team awareness and understanding of latest payroll policies, updates in legislation and procedures
- Own APAC payroll governance, ensuring all payroll activities adhere to internal controls, SOX, data privacy requirements, and audit expectations.
- Maintain deep knowledge of country-specific payroll, tax, social insurance, and labour regulations across APAC’s diverse markets.
- Partner with Legal, Security, and Compliance teams to meet GDPR/APAC data protection standards, including handling sensitive employee data securely.
3. Payroll Operations Oversight
- Oversee end-to-end payroll operations across multiple APAC countries, delivering accurate and timely payroll for tech employee populations (full-time, contractors, interns, remote/hybrid workers).
- Coordinate year-end payroll processes, including tax reporting, annual statements, and compliance filings for each country
- Manage complex payroll cycles involving Global Mobility, RSUs, ESPP, bonuses, sign-on awards, retention plans, and variable pay common in tech compensation.
- Review and sign off on payroll reconciliations, general ledger journals, funding, variance reports, and statutory filings.
4. Vendor Management
- Lead relationships with regional and in-country payroll vendors
- Evaluate and implement new payroll models as the company expands into new APAC markets.
- Drive performance reviews, SLA monitoring, and contract negotiations.
5. Technology, Automation & Innovation
- Champion payroll automation, system optimization, and integration with HRIS/Finance platforms (SAP SuccessFactors, and Success Factors Payroll (ECP)
- Partner with IT, HRIS, and Product teams to streamline workflows, integrations, data flows, and reporting.
- Support digital transformation initiatives such as self‑service, real‑time analytics, and centralized dashboards.
6. People Leadership
- Lead and manage a regional team of payroll professionals, providing mentorship, performance feedback and career development opportunities (currently based in Taiwan and Malaysia),
- Foster a culture of operational and customer excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Provide a supportive environment that promotes problem solving through root cause analysis and identification of standard ways of working
- Ensuring adaptability within the team to provide back ups and succession planning
- Promote collaboration with our global operations hub
7. Stakeholder & Employee Experience Management
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex payroll queries and executive-level cases
- Partner with Total Rewards on equity vesting events, stock transactions, and tax treatments
- Work with Global Mobility on cross‑border assignments, remote worker arrangements, and complex tax obligations
- Communicate payroll changes clearly in a fast-paced technology environment where transparency and employee trust are critical
8. Managing budgets for Payroll costs in APAC region
- Monitoring YTD spend against budgeted costs
- Raise Purchase requisitions as necessary
