About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking an experienced payroll professional with multi-country APAC payroll experience to join our team at a growing global bank known for its award-winning culture. This is an opportunity to advance your career in a high-performing global environment, where you will gain exposure to complex, multi-jurisdiction APAC payrolls while working within a supportive and collaborative team culture.
As an APAC Senior Payroll Specialist, you will be responsible for handling complex tasks that support payroll preparation and distribution for our operations in APAC. Your role will include managing vendor relationships and workflows to ensure accurate and timely payroll services for our team members across the region, while ensuring compliance with local legal and regulatory standards.
Additionally, you will play a key role in driving ongoing improvement and transformation initiatives. This position reports directly to the APAC Payroll Manager.
In this role, you will:
Take ownership for the delivery of APAC Payrolls to the Company Service Level Agreements for accuracy and timeliness as well as full compliance with legislation, internal policy and control procedures.
Contribute to providing work direction, coaching, and managing daily schedules.
Consult in payroll inquires, records, deductions, and procedures.
Performing reconciliations and audit tasks for monthly payrolls
Improve and update operations by maintaining accurate records of payroll information.
Guide resolution of payroll regulatory risks by applying understanding of current and new industry practices.
Monitor evolving industry changes and communicating implications to team.
Review complex data with legal compliance and the impact it will have on resources.
Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
Improve customer satisfaction.
Work on payroll and wider HR projects delivering process simplification and automation.
Required Qualifications:
Ability to multi-task and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
Strong Excel skills.
Excellent attention to detail.
Good interpersonal and communication skills.
Good team working skills with ability to work independently.
General financial skills and knowledge, including basic understanding of balance sheet and budgeting.
Working knowledge of CloudPay and Workday
Experience of working through change, ideally implementing interfaces / automation of processes.
Experience in APAC Payroll, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following work experience, training, education.
Posting End Date:
4 Dec 2025*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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