Payroll SME

Entity:

People, Culture & Communications

Job Family Group:

HR Group

Job Description:

Overview:

We are a global energy business involved in every aspect of the energy system. We are working towards delivering light, heat and mobility to millions of people, every day. Our people want to play their part in solving the big, sophisticated challenges facing our world today and, guided by our bp values, are working to help meet the world’s need for more energy while lowering carbon emissions. In our offices at Pune, we work in customer service, finance, accounting, procurement, HR services and other enabling functions – providing solutions as an integrated part of bp.

Would you like to discover how our diverse, hardworking people are owning the way in making energy cleaner and better – and how you can play your part in our outstanding team?

Join our team, and develop your career in an encouraging, forward-thinking environment!

Role Synopsis:

We’re modernizing and simplifying the way we run People and Culture in bp and our Global P&C solutions and services team is at the heart of new ways of working. Every effort is taken to ensure consistency and standardization of the HR processes across the globe. However, we understand that every country has its unique legal, fiscal and regulatory requirements and there is a need to support them.
The Payroll SME is accountable for the payroll processing and local administration activities for local country entities. This role is responsible to ensure payroll is processed

Key Accountabilities:

• Support with the procedures of preparation, documentation, and disbursement

• of all payroll checks, payroll taxes, and employee benefit payments

• Perform reconciliation and validation of data according to predefined payroll

• processing procedures and standards

• Compliance payments: compute and validate to ensure accurate and timely

• payments to the statutory authorities like EPFO, Professional taxes, income tax,

• etc.

• Perform validation on payroll outputs, bank files, payroll journals, etc.

• Responsible for handling third-party payroll vendors and acting as a liaison in the resolution of payroll problems between vendors and bp

• Work with cross-functional teams like Finance, Treasury, Tax, and Legal

• teams to formulate processes/policies

• Resolve difficult payroll issues that have been called out or are difficult to interpret

• Handle exit administration such as resignation, retirement, redundancy, etc.

• Handle the third-party administration processing such as vendor invoicing and coordination with Finance for payment, etc.

• Provides operational support and inputs to local country Centre of Excellence

• (CoEs)

• Responsible for employee communication for any updates in relation to payrol and local statutory. This includes drafting communication and advising Country HR and Communication team before releasing it to the targeted audience

• Responsible for ensuring the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is constantly reviewed, updated, and tested to ensure BCP readiness.

• Ensures proper documentation and compliance for internal controls and audits

• Ensures proper governmental reporting and compliance

• Identify, analyze and improve the existing process by recommending and

• implementing solutions in an innovative and logical manner

• Find opportunities to improve service to deliver a better customer

• experience and better efficiency

• Implement and assess the Quality framework to ensure Quality Assurance,

• Quality Audit, Quality improvement and Knowledge management initiatives are running effectively

Essential Education:

A university degree or professional qualification, in human resources management or its equivalent.

Minimum of 8-10 years of