Senior Payroll Consultant

About the role

Informa's Global Support team is hiring a Senior Payroll Consultant for its Bugis Junction Tower office in Singapore. The role manages complex payroll operations across the APAC region, ensuring compliance with local regulations while leading the payroll team. It combines technical payroll expertise with strong vendor management skills and the ability to drive process improvements.

Key responsibilities

• Manage in-house and outsourced payroll processes across multiple APAC countries, keeping them accurate, compliant and timely
• Ensure statutory calculations, reconciliations and submissions meet the diverse regulatory requirements of APAC countries
• Maintain employee leave records and manage applications for governmental leave subsidies and claims
• Monitor and implement changes to regional employment laws and regulations
• Oversee regional payroll vendors and ensure adherence to service level agreements and local statutory requirements
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners, working with Finance, HR, IT and Legal
• Implement internal controls, maintain documentation such as process manuals and workflow diagrams, and create incident reports
• Support audits, government reporting, system migrations, UAT and integration projects
• Prepare monthly reports (finance reports, headcount analytics, KPIs, cost centre allocations, leave utilisation) and turn payroll data into insights

Required profile

• Minimum 8 years of progressive payroll experience
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with meticulous attention to detail
• Proven stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
• Proficiency in written and spoken Mandarin to communicate with Mandarin-speaking stakeholders
• Regional APAC exposure is an advantage

Required skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Preferred: SAP, EasyPay and ADP payroll systems
• Preferred: project management certification or experience leading payroll projects, previous team leadership, payroll system implementation or migration experience, and knowledge of HR-payroll integration best practices

What we offer

• Annual leave plus a birthday leave day, and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• Private medical cover and a flexible range of personal benefits
• Bespoke training, mentoring and access to courses, plus internal job mobility
• Volunteer days with charity match funding, and a ShareMatch share scheme
• EAP wellbeing support, global awards and recognition programmes