🚀 Senior Associate – Payroll Processes | Tata 1mg Hiring in Gurugram
🏢 Company: Tata 1mg
Payroll & HR Operations Hiring
📄 Job Description
Tata 1mg is hiring an experienced payroll professional for the position of Senior Associate – Payroll Processes in Gurugram. The role involves managing and supporting end-to-end India payroll operations, statutory compliance, attendance and leave inputs, contractual manpower processes, payroll MIS, employee query resolution, and payroll-related audits.
The ideal candidate should have 3+ years of relevant payroll experience, strong knowledge of Indian payroll processes and statutory requirements, hands-on Advanced Excel skills, and the ability to coordinate effectively with employees, Finance teams, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing.
🛠 Key Responsibilities
- Manage and support end-to-end India payroll processing activities
- Ensure accurate and timely processing of employee salary inputs
- Manage statutory compliance requirements related to PF, ESIC, Professional Tax (PT), and Labour Welfare Fund (LWF)
- Validate attendance, leave, overtime, and other payroll-related inputs
- Coordinate payroll inputs and ensure data accuracy before salary processing
- Manage contractual manpower vendors and monitor payroll-related compliance requirements
- Conduct or support vendor compliance checks and audits
- Prepare payroll MIS reports, trackers, reconciliations, and management reports
- Use Advanced Excel for payroll data analysis, validation, reporting, and reconciliation
- Resolve employee payroll queries accurately and within defined timelines
- Coordinate with the Finance team to ensure timely salary processing and payroll-related payments
- Support internal, external, and statutory payroll audits
- Maintain accurate payroll records and supporting documentation
- Identify process gaps and support improvements in payroll operations and controls
🎓 Eligibility Criteria
- 3+ years of relevant experience in payroll processing or payroll operations
- Hands-on experience with end-to-end India payroll processes
- Working knowledge of statutory compliance including PF, ESIC, PT, and LWF
- Experience handling attendance, leave, overtime, and payroll input validation
- Knowledge of contractual manpower vendor management and compliance processes
- Experience preparing payroll MIS, reconciliations, and reports
- Strong working knowledge of Advanced Microsoft Excel
- Ability to handle employee payroll queries professionally and accurately
- Experience supporting internal, external, or statutory audits is preferred
- Strong attention to detail, confidentiality, and data accuracy
⭐ Key Skills
- India Payroll Processing
- Payroll Operations
- PF, ESIC, PT & LWF Compliance
- Attendance & Leave Management
- Overtime Management
- Contractual Manpower Compliance
- Vendor Management
- Payroll MIS Reporting
- Advanced Microsoft Excel
- Payroll Audits & Reconciliation
💰 Benefits
- Opportunity to build expertise in large-scale India payroll operations
- Exposure to statutory compliance, payroll controls, and audit processes
- Hands-on experience with payroll MIS, reporting, and data analysis
- Cross-functional exposure through collaboration with HR, Finance, vendors, and employees
- Career growth opportunities in Payroll, HR Operations, Compliance, and Shared Services
⭐ Why Join Tata 1mg?
- Work with a recognized organization in India's digital healthcare ecosystem
- Gain hands-on exposure to end-to-end payroll processes and statutory compliance
- Work on payroll operations involving multiple stakeholders and complex employee data
- Strengthen your expertise in payroll analytics, compliance, controls, and audits
- Build a long-term career in Payroll, HR Operations, and People Processes
🧠 Core Skills Required
- End-to-End Payroll: Strong understanding of payroll inputs, validations, processing, reconciliations, salary coordination, and post-payroll activities.
- Statutory Compliance: Working knowledge of payroll-related statutory requirements including PF, ESIC, Professional Tax, and Labour Welfare Fund.
- Attendance & Leave Management: Ability to validate attendance, leave, overtime, and other employee inputs that impact payroll calculations.
- Advanced Excel: Strong ability to work with large payroll datasets using formulas, lookup functions, PivotTables, data validation, reconciliation, and reporting tools.
- Payroll MIS: Ability to prepare accurate payroll reports, trackers, reconciliations, and management information within defined timelines.
- Vendor Management: Experience coordinating with contractual manpower vendors and ensuring adherence to payroll and compliance requirements.
- Audit & Controls: Ability to maintain documentation and support internal, external, statutory, and vendor compliance audits.
- Employee Query Resolution: Ability to investigate and resolve salary, deduction, attendance, leave, and other payroll-related employee queries.
🎤 How to Prepare for the Interview
- Revise the complete India payroll cycle from payroll input collection through salary processing, reconciliation, and post-payroll activities.
- Review statutory concepts related to PF, ESIC, Professional Tax, and Labour Welfare Fund.
- Be prepared to explain how attendance, leave, overtime, loss of pay, deductions, and other variables affect payroll.
- Prepare examples of payroll discrepancies you identified and how you resolved them.
- Revise contractual manpower vendor management and payroll compliance audit processes.
- Prepare examples of handling employee payroll queries and coordinating with Finance or other stakeholders.
- Review Advanced Excel functions such as XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, IF, SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, PivotTables, conditional formatting, and data validation.
- Be ready to discuss payroll MIS reporting, reconciliation techniques, data accuracy checks, and audit documentation.
- Demonstrate strong attention to detail, confidentiality, compliance awareness, analytical ability, and ownership during the interview.
📩 How to Apply
Interested candidates with 3+ years of relevant payroll experience can apply through the application form below. Candidates should clearly highlight their experience in India payroll processing, statutory compliance, Advanced Excel, payroll MIS, vendor management, and audits in their resume.