Payroll Team Leader – Global Payroll

Location: India

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Payroll Team Leader to support and oversee the end-to-end processing of payroll within a global shared services and operating model. The role will focus on ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing delivery, while providing day-to-day leadership and guidance to a team and working closely with internal payroll teams, internal partners, and external vendors.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and support end-to-end payroll processing as per defined service calendars, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to SLAs.

• Lead payroll control activities including data validation, reconciliations, variance analysis, and post-payroll checks; ensure issues are logged, tracked, and resolved.

• Review and support processing of payroll inputs including new hires, leavers, salary changes, bonuses, overtime, deductions, and statutory elements.

• Act as an escalation point for payroll queries and data issues; liaise with internal partners and employees to drive resolution.

• Coordinate with external payroll vendors to support accurate payroll delivery, issue resolution, and service performance tracking.

• Oversee post payroll reporting activities and ensure reporting accuracy and timeliness.

• Ensure payroll processing aligns with internal controls, audit requirements, and regional governance standards; support audit requests and evidence gathering.

• Maintain and review payroll process documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and knowledge transfer materials; ensure the team follows documented processes.

• Support payroll transition, stabilisation, and continuous improvement initiatives; identify opportunities to improve accuracy, controls, and efficiency.

• Provide day-to-day guidance, workload prioritisation, and coaching to team members to meet delivery timelines and quality standards.

Preferable Experience & Skills

• 6–8+ years’ experience supporting payroll processing, ideally within global payroll environments; prior experience in leading or supervising a team is preferred.

• Strong understanding of payroll fundamentals (gross-to-net, statutory deductions, payroll controls) and control/audit readiness.

• Experience with enterprise payroll systems and vendor-supported payroll delivery models.

• Proficient Microsoft Excel skills and strong analytical capability.

• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage strict payroll deadlines across multiple priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with ability to manage stakeholders and escalations.

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 

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