Payroll & Local Delivery Senior Specialist

rhi is recruiting for a Payroll & Local Delivery Senior Specialist  to join our clients team based in KL, Malaysia. 

Start date: Aug/Sept 2026

Contract  12 months

• Working arrangement: Hybrid 60/40
• Working hour: flexible working hour – 6.00am - 3.00pm

The purpose of the Payroll & Local Delivery Senior Specialist role is to:

·       The Local Admin & Payroll Specialist is accountable for the payroll processing and local administration activities for local country entities.

• This position will involve a mix of project work (30–40%) and local delivery tasks (60–70%):
• Project work includes system testing, parallel testing (SAP vs Workday), data migration, and new entity setup.
• Local delivery tasks include contract stamping (~400–470 documents), letter generation, and employee personal file (P-file) handling.
• SAP payroll experience is mandatory, with exposure to payroll processing.

Key accountabilities:

• Compensation administration processing such as annual base salary review coordination, sign on bonus, spot bonus, etc.
• Benefit administration processing such as benefit enrolment, shift allowance, medical allowance, pension, etc.
• Leave administration processing such as unpaid leave, employees returning from leave, and leave balance enquiries
• Exit administration processing such as resignation, retirement, redundancy and termination. Activities include preparation of these exit packages and letters
• Third Party administration processing such as vendor invoicing and coordination with Finance for payment, etc.
• Act as Tier 2 support for enquiries pertaining to compensation, benefits, payroll and tax.
• Physical Record Management - filling and extracting physical records based on customers’ request
• Care for document retentions – both softcopy and hardcopy
• Active daily management of service request queue system to ensure appropriate workload/effort assignment for efficient service delivery
• Accountable for local country payroll and statutory processing, to ensure compliance to legal, fiscal and regulatory requirement. This includes any of form of remunerations, statutory contributions, fund release to statutory bodies, tax reporting and clearances, payment to vendors and employees.
• Ensure payroll services are delivered in accordance to agreed performance matrixes and adhere to global HR Standard Operating Procedure.
• Accountable for payroll, tax and any external statutory audits

About you: 

• A university degree or professional qualification, in human resources management or its equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant previous experience in handling Singapore and/or Malaysia employment law, statutory and effective HR processes - A plus is AU/NZ experience.

Key Skills:

• Proficient knowledge of CRM systems
• Proficient knowledge of Payroll
• Foundational knowledge of Reporting and analytics
• Proficient knowledge of Workday, SAP, and other HR management system
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• A continuous improvement approach; seeking simple, ‘best fit’ solutions to challenges.
• 1) SAP PAYROLL
• 2) Working in shared service center
• 3) experience probably min 5 years of working in the same field (since grade 4)
• 4) willing to do stamping and letter generation and have experience if possible
• 5) Working with payroll vendor (ADP)
• 6) Project - data migration / payroll testing

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About rhi

rhi is a professional services provider with global expertise. Tracing our history back to the 19th century, we have spent the last 50 years as a global leader to the energy industry. 

We combine efficient systems and processes with a deep understanding of client challenges and market insight. We work with our clients to deliver information and resources that will support every stage of their operations.  We deliver value to our employees, our clients and the countries that we work in.

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Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.

If you believe this opportunity is right for you, please click the ‘Apply ’ button to submit your application. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.  At this time, we will only consider applications with valid working rights for the specified country.

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