About the role:
In this role, you are responsible for providing accurate, timely, and controlled payroll services across the company 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, validating critical documents such as offer letters, SMA, NDA, Code of Ethics, Conflict of Interest Declaration, Acknowledgement of Compliance Policies, service undertakings, 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, ensuring accurate processing of Qatari and GCC pension deductions and compliance with relevant statutory requirements.
- Review and validate overtime transactions, assessing eligibility, employee grade, and relevant supporting information, identifying corrections or clarifications required 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, ensuring employee eligibility, grade, supporting documentation, and applicable approvals prior to monthly payroll processing.
- Validate company loan requests, ensuring completeness, employee eligibility, and that all required supporting documentation and approvals align with applicable company policy and Delegation of Authority/Decision Rights Matrix (DOA/DRM) before processing the loan.
- Perform detailed manual calculations covering applicable salary-related components, ensuring relevant earnings, allowances, deductions, and other payroll impacts are appropriately considered for the concerned period, and validating leave records and return/resumption information have been appropriately updated before 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 prior to updating payroll/HR records.
- Take appropriate action on identified discrepancies before payroll completion, maintaining 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.
- Prepare ad hoc reports and verifications for various stakeholders, including HR Admin, HR Recruitment, HR Business support, and various departments. Work closely with the 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:
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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 and 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 to organize work activities for team members.
- Strong time management and organization skills.
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- Oracle HR System operating knowledge and exposure.
Preferred
- Experience in the Airline Industry.
