Payroll Specialist

Payroll Specialist

Location: Philippines
Work Arrangement: Remote, Full-time
Shift: Monday - Friday | 9:00 PM - 6:00 AM PHT
Salary Range: Php 72,000 - Php 103,000

Unlock Your Potential!

At TOA Global, we have a deep commitment to empowering individuals to excel in their enterprises, careers, and communities. Our global footprint stretches across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and the Philippines, supporting our global clients across the accounting, finance, and specialized technology industries.

We are seeking a meticulous and dependable Payroll Specialist to join a highly innovative global People Team. Our client is a premier marketing technology and AI decisioning enterprise that allows the world's most innovative brands to maximize revenue, simplify workflows, and boost marketing agility. Operating in a full-time remote capacity, you will take autonomous ownership of global cross-border salary distribution, regulatory compliance, and system reconciliations. If you thrive in a deadline-driven environment and possess a strong customer-service mindset, this is your opportunity to manage high-impact payroll operations.

Your Impact

• Global Payroll Architecture: Manage and execute bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll processing for employees across multiple countries, ensuring absolute accuracy and timeliness in line with localized requirements and internal deadlines.
• Data Integrity & Audit Validation: Review, audit, and validate multi-layered payroll inputs-including digital timesheets, statutory benefit deductions, variable commissions, bonuses, and localized compensation inputs.
• Employee Lifecycle Management: Coordinate the precise, timely system processing of new hire profiles, employee terminations, salary adjustments, bonuses, and strategic compensation actions within the central database.
• Cross-Functional Reconciliation: Partner closely with internal People and Accounting teams to optimize the flow of employee data and payroll accounting. Reconcile payroll outputs, resolve ledger discrepancies, and ensure accurate funding and reporting.
• Tax Architecture & Year-End Close: Own and lead tax reporting and complex year-end payroll procedures. Oversee the structural preparation, compliance checking, and seamless distribution of Form W-2s or country-specific equivalents.
• Compliance Safeguarding: Ensure strict alignment with all applicable wage and hour laws, including FLSA and specific regional requirements. Maintain a high standard of data security and keep payroll archives completely audit-ready for internal and external reviews.
• Stakeholder Support & Reporting: Serve as a dependable, helpful resource for employee inquiries regarding compensation, withholding taxes, and documentation. Generate ad hoc analytics reports using advanced Excel formulas (VLOOKUPs, pivot tables) to support audits, compliance, and management decision-making.

What You Bring

• The Experience:5+ years of dedicated experience in payroll processing or a related corporate financial role, demonstrating a high degree of autonomy, technical ownership, and schedule discipline.
• Multi-Country Competency (Highly Preferred): Practical working knowledge of multi-country payroll workflows and tax frameworks across regions such as the US, Canada, Costa Rica, UK, Germany, and Australia.
• Ecosystem Familiarity: Prior hands-on experience navigating enterprise-level payroll platforms and HRIS environments (e.g., ADP, UKG, Workday, or similar cloud applications).
• Advanced Analytical Excel Skills: Strong critical thinking capabilities paired with the ability to slice, cross-reference, and audit large volumes of sensitive financial and personal data without breaking a sweat.
• Communication & Discretion: Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills, critical for explaining complex tax variables to stakeholders. You possess a deeply ingrained respect for maintaining vault-level data confidentiality and handling sensitive data with integrity.

Why You'll Love It Here

We believe in rewarding high achievers with a work environment that fuels both professional growth and personal well-being.

• Time for You: Enjoy 21 Total Annual Service Incentive Leaves, flexible to use for travel, emergencies, or anything you may need for your Me time.
• Tenure Recognition Program: Celebrate your milestones with us; on your 2nd year, choose between a cash reward or one free HMO dependent.
• Health & Security: Comprehensive HMO and Life Insurance coverage from day one.
• Premium Nightshift Support: Earn competitive night shift differential pay while working in a secure, high-performance environment tailored for professionals supporting the US business market.
• Remote Freedom: Eliminate the daily office commute entirely and design your ideal workspace with a full-time, work-from-home arrangement backed by robust corporate IT support.
• Enterprise Tech Exposure: Fast-track your technical capabilities by anchoring the global compliance and human capital infrastructure of a cutting-edge technology enterprise.