SHILPA BATRA

• Lead a payroll team of 10 employees ensuring accurate and compliant monthly payroll for multinational clients (e.g. Procter & Gamble, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Cargill, SKF, Corteva etc).
• Ensure correct submission of monthly, quarterly, and year end withholding reconciliations through payroll software to their federal government single touch portal.
• Monitor payroll errors and identify areas for process improvement or additional staff training.
• Contribute to payroll system projects, including scoping, implementation, and testing of new payroll system.
• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to address payroll system issue and resolve them in a timely manner.
• Processed off-cycle payroll and other off cycle payments such as terminations pays and Notice pay, excess Leaves
• Provide supervision, training and support to new and existing payroll team members to ensure consistent understanding of processes and compliance with Payroll laws.
• Complied with local labor and tax laws across multiple jurisdictions.
• Supported local and international audits through documentation and reconciliations.
• Handled payroll accounting: GL entries, monthly closing, Accruals and reconciliations.
• Managed and develop Clients Policy and SOP’s as per local Law’s
• Upload payments files to banking platforms and ensure secure transactions
• Received Ad hoc assignment such as calculations of payroll tax of whole fiscal year from external stakeholders

• Processed Final settlement and termination pays in compliance with local legislation including unused leaves, redundancy entitlement and statutory obligations
• Managed end to end payroll processing for both active and terminated employees (11000) ensuring accuracy in taxation, employee benefit and statutory deductions.
• Ensured accurate calculate and disbursement of entitlement such as long services leave annual leave loading and notice period payments
• Prepare and lodge taxation documents including payment summaries, PAYS and EOFY reporting for active and inactive employees
• Participated in payroll system upgrades and implementations, aligning configurations with legislation requirements and business policies also perform testing before go into live.
• Liaised with HR and finance teams to ensure smooth employee off-boarding and accurate financial reporting

• Successfully manage the end to end delivery of the payroll process of 1000+ employees, ensuring payroll is processes accurately and within agreed timelines
• Lead implementation of new HR systems, including On-boarding, Recruitment modules, Payroll, Appraisal, Loan, Leave, Final settlement module.
• Collaborate with HRIS stakeholders to ensure system align with business needs
• Assist with month end reporting and annual reconciliations, and general ledger activities
• Ensured payroll compliance by aligning system and process with legal legislation, including taxation, statutory deductions, employee benefits and other entitlements.
• Responsible for the leave portal and employee communication initiatives.
• Assist to Group head in developing of policy and procedure
• Efficiency managed employees queries related to withholding tax, personal tax return filing, leave management, terminations pay and other HR and payroll related inquiries.
• Supported end-to-end recruitment and on boarding processes.
• Provide day to day HR support to supervisors and team leads

• Supported end-to-end recruitment, on boarding and employee life cycle
• Help drive recruitment, on boarding and retention initiative
• Maintained employee records in HRIS and continuously engage with external system vendors for implementation of system
• Acted as the official company representative at various university job fairs, promoting careers opportunities and building employer visibility among emerging talent
• Assist with the development and implementation of HR projects and initiatives
• Coordinate training and development programs to enhance employee skills

• Process and reconcile accounts payable invoices in timely manner
• Manage the account receivables process including invoicing, statement preparations and chasing overdue payments
• Liaise with internal departments and external suppliers/customers to resolve any billing or payment issue
• Assist with other accounting and administrative tasks as required.

• Provided academic support and mentorship to underprivileged children

• Contributed to their educational and personal development through
community based learning program