About the role:
In this role, you are responsible for providing accurate, timely, and controlled payroll services across the company Group through the processing, independent validation, and review of payroll transactions, employee master-data changes, payroll inputs, and supporting documentation.
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Specific Responsibilities:
- Maintain and process payroll records of permanent, short-term/fixed-term contracts and posted staff.
- Verify and validate new joiner files, including critical documents such as offer letters, SMA, NDA, Code of Ethics, Conflict of Interest Declaration, Acknowledgement of Compliance Policies, Service undertaking, Group Safety and Security Policy, and any other ad hoc approvals.
- Process and validate payroll changes, including salary adjustments, back-pay calculations, deductions, advances, and other employee payroll transactions. Ensure accurate processing of Qatari and GCC pension deductions and compliance with relevant statutory requirements.
- Review and validate overtime transactions, including applicable eligibility, employee grade, and relevant supporting information, identifying exceptions requiring correction or clarification before payroll processing.
- Validate payroll batch-upload information and supporting documentation to identify incorrect, incomplete, duplicate, unusual, or potentially ineligible transactions. Validate high-value and exception reimbursement and deduction transactions received for batch upload, including employee eligibility, grade, supporting documentation, and applicable approvals before monthly payroll processing.
- Validate company loan requests to ensure completeness, employee eligibility requirements are met, and all required documentation and approvals align with the applicable company policy and Delegation of Authority/Decision Rights Matrix (DOA/DRM) before processing the loan.
- Perform detailed manual calculations covering all applicable salary-related components, ensuring relevant earnings, allowances, deductions, and other payroll impacts are appropriately considered for the period concerned, along with validating that leave records and return/resumption information have been appropriately updated based on confirmed business advice before calculating the salary release.
- Process and validate employee payroll-related master-data changes, including cost center changes, position changes, redesignations, and other organizational updates, ensuring supporting documentation and appropriate approvals are in place before updating payroll/HR records.
- Take appropriate action on identified discrepancies before payroll completion. Maintain appropriate supporting documentation and validation evidence to provide an audit trail for payroll transactions and control activities.
- Respond and communicate effectively to queries regarding payroll policies and procedures raised by business units and employees.
- Provide ad hoc reports and verifications to various stakeholders, including HR Admin, HR Recruitment, HR Business support, and various departments. Work closely with HR Administration, Finance Payroll, and IT teams to support payroll operations and system enhancements.
- Participate in payroll system testing and support the implementation of system improvements.
Be part of an extraordinary story:
Your skills, imagination, and ambition drive the potential you can realize and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and tackle the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be part of our future and build the life you want while being part of an international community.
Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. Together, everything is possible.
About you:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent with a minimum of 4 years of relevant payroll experience.
- Payroll administration knowledge and experience within a large, complex organization.
- Strong understanding of HR processes with data analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Sound judgment and attention to detail.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet short deadlines.
- Computer literate with thorough knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work as a team member and organize work activities for other members of the team.
- Strong time management and organizational skills.
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- Oracle HR System Operating Knowledge and Exposure.
Preferred:
- Experience in the Airline Industry.
General Information
- Location: Qatar-Doha
- Job family: Corporate & Commercial
- Closing Date: 2026-11-24
