Payroll Team Lead

工作总结

What’s next in your career? If it’s working on cutting-edge solutions in food, health, and sustainability, you’re in the right place.

Job Description

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.

People & Culture: Fostering a purpose-driven, inclusive culture where talent thrives, leadership grows and every employee is empowered to make joy.

Team Description: Accurate, Resilient, Solution-oriented, Dedicated, Experienced

The role is based in Kunshan City, China. Be part of a Payroll team in Finace where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

Where You’ll Make a Difference

Lead and oversee day-to-day payroll operations, ensuring accurate and timely payroll delivery for assigned countries, entities, or employee populations.

Manage, coach, and develop payroll team members, allocate workloads, monitor performance, and ensure appropriate backup coverage within the team.

Review and approve payroll inputs, calculations, reconciliations, and reports, ensuring payroll accuracy before final processing and payment.

Ensure payroll activities comply with applicable labor laws, tax regulations, social insurance requirements, statutory obligations, and company policies.

Manage relationships with external payroll vendors, monitor service performance, and drive timely resolution and escalation of payroll issues.

Partner with HR, Finance, Total Rewards, HR Operations, and other stakeholders to resolve complex payroll matters and support business requirements.

Oversee payroll reporting, reconciliations, statutory filings, year-end activities, audits, and payroll-related controls to ensure data integrity and compliance.

Drive continuous improvement of payroll processes, controls, systems, and ways of working, including automation, standardization, system enhancements, and payroll-related projects.

What Makes You the Right Fit

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.

Solid payroll operations experience, with demonstrated experience independently managing end-to-end payroll processes.

Previous experience leading, supervising, or coordinating a payroll team or payroll operations.

Strong knowledge of payroll processes, taxation, social insurance, statutory requirements, payroll controls, and compliance.

Experience working with HRIS and payroll systems such as Workday, SAP, Oracle, or equivalent platforms.

Strong Excel and payroll data analysis skills, including payroll reconciliation, reporting, and identification of discrepancies or risks.

Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to handle complex payroll issues and escalations.

Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple payroll deadlines and priorities while handling sensitive and confidential information appropriately.

How Would You Stand Out?

Experience managing multi-country or regional payroll operations, particularly within an APAC environment.

Experience working in a multinational company, shared services environment, and/or managing outsourced payroll service providers.

Experience with payroll transformation, system implementation, automation, process improvement, or regional/global payroll projects.

Why Choose Us?

Attractive profit, including free shuttle bus, lunch etc.

Home office opportunity (2 days/week after probation)

Work-Life balance

Training opportunities

Learning and development programs

Great team collaboration

For your awareness, IFF has announced its intention to sell its Food Ingredients Business to CVC Capital Partners. The sale is presently expected to close in the first half of 2027, pending regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. The Food Ingredient business unit will remain a part of IFF until close and, at such time, it will transition to CVC Capital Partners. In applying for this position, you acknowledge your awareness that the position is a part of the Food Ingredient business unit and has been identified to transition to CVC Capital Partners.

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