Specialist, Payroll and Time & Attendance

We Offer

At Maersk we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to: gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure timely payroll processing for substantial number of employees (approx. 800+ headcounts)

• Manage the performance of the payroll vendors to ensure SLAs are met

• Taking charge of the payroll related initiatives/projects

• Process input to payroll vendors, runs test runs, checks, reconciles and checks to ensure correct salary is paid before running payroll

• Collaborate and work closely with internal stakeholders (HR Team, Regional/Global Operations Team) on data quality management, vendor performance and continuous process improvement.

• Compiles employees related cost invoices, reconciles cost against invoices

• Provides monthly cost information to relevant stakeholders

• Handle base & year-to-date control (Accruals)

• Follow up on staff movement to ensure timely updates to payroll

• Handle employee queries on all payroll matters promptly

• Tax Clearance, and liaison with payroll and e-leave vendors

• Leave system administration – year-end leave closing and carry forward exercise

• Liaise with government agencies for tax and government claim matters

• Liaise with auditors on payroll auditing matters (for various entities)

• Perform monthly internal controls for payroll (RICC)

• Any other duties as assigned – headcount requests, etc.

We are looking for

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's Degree, Post Graduate Diploma, Professional Degree, or equivalent.

• At least 5 year (s) of working experience in the related field is required for this position.

• Ability to communicate in local language.

• Good knowledge of Malaysia payroll, blue collar employees payroll, end-to-end payroll processing experience is a MUST.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Knowledge of the Workday payroll system is an advantage.

• Good communication skill is needed, stakeholders management.

• Skills needed: Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Teams.

We will only get in touch if you have been shortlisted for the role.