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Payroll Operations Specialist
Coordinate Malaysia payroll inputs, validations, finance handoffs, and compliance support while contributing to repeatable multi-country payroll operations.
Role Snapshot
Hiring market
Malaysia
Coverage
Multi-country coverage
Type
Full-time
Workplace
Remote
Department
Payroll Operations
Hiring market
Malaysia
Operating coverage
Multi-country coverage
Posted
May 21, 2026
What you will own
- Coordinate recurring payroll operations across assigned countries, including input collection, validation, cut-off tracking, approval follow-up, and post-payroll checks.
- Review payroll inputs for completeness and consistency, including salary changes, bonuses, deductions, expenses, leave, start dates, terminations, and bank details.
- Work with HR operations, finance, compliance, customer success, and local payroll stakeholders to resolve payroll questions before processing deadlines.
- Maintain payroll trackers, issue logs, SOPs, calendar reminders, and internal handoff documentation.
- Support compliance checks by confirming that payroll inputs and employee changes align with country-specific requirements and internal controls.
- Identify repeated payroll exceptions and help improve templates, validation steps, and workflow automation opportunities.
What you will bring
- Experience in payroll operations, payroll coordination, HR operations, finance operations, or multi-country employee service delivery.
- Strong attention to detail and comfort validating structured data under deadline pressure.
- Understanding of payroll cycles, cut-offs, approvals, employee changes, and sensitive data handling.
- Professional English communication and the ability to coordinate clearly across functions and time zones.
- Ability to work with local payroll terminology and market-specific employee documentation; each opening lists the required language or local payroll context.
- Comfort using spreadsheets, payroll systems, HR systems, shared documentation, and operational trackers.
- Availability aligned to the payroll cycles and cut-off windows of the hiring market shown on this opening.
Market and language fit
- Based in Malaysia, with working hours that can support APAC payroll cycles and cut-offs.
- Professional written and spoken English is required for cross-functional payroll coordination.
- Bahasa Malaysia fluency is required for local payroll inputs, employee documentation, and statutory context checks.
- Mandarin Chinese is a plus for APAC payroll stakeholder support.
Helpful context
- Experience with multi-country payroll, EOR payroll, or global employment operations.
- Knowledge of statutory payroll concepts such as taxes, social security, employer contributions, deductions, and benefits.
- Mandarin Chinese or another additional APAC language.
- Additional market language skills for the countries you support.
- Experience improving payroll controls, exception logs, or recurring payroll calendars.
Interview process
What to expect
1
Intro conversation with Talent
2
Payroll Operations interview
3
Payroll input validation exercise
4
Final conversation with Operations leadership