Payroll Specialist

The Qualtrics XM Platform is a system of action that helps businesses to attract customers who stay longer and buy more, to engage and empower employees to do the best work of their lives, to develop breakthrough products people love, and to build a brand people can’t imagine living without.

Joining Qualtrics means becoming part of a team bold enough to chase breakthrough experiences - like building a technology that will be a force for good. A team committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion because of a conviction that every voice holds value, with a vision for representation that matches the world around us and inclusion that far exceeds it. You could belong to a team whose values center on transparency, being all in, having customer obsession, acting as one team, and operating with scrappiness. All so you can do the best work of your career.

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**About the opportunity**:
The Qualtrics Finance team is looking for a high performer to join our payroll team and play a big part in the continued operational excellence of the payroll function across Asia Pacific. As an APJ Payroll Specialist, you are responsible for ensuring accurate, timely and efficient administration of payroll processing for multiple countries within the APJ region (encompassing our entities in Australia, Japan, Singapore, India, South Korea, and Hong Kong).

If you have a Bachelor’s degree, have a people focus at heart and are looking for the chance to initiate or continue your career in payroll at a fast-paced and dynamic hyper-growth company, then Qualtrics could be the place for you.

Whether you're a recent graduate, or have 1-3 years of experience under your belt - we want to hear from you

**A Day in the Life**:

- Process assigned monthly payrolls, ensuring all employee data changes are accurate and processed timely
- Manage external payroll vendor services in APJ
- Work closely with the APJ and US Compensation, Payroll and Benefits team in order to ensure timely collection of data
- Conduct audits of data, changes and requests that come in to ensure compliance with company policies and and/or other regulations or legislation.
- Manage annual returns and other statutory filings as they relate to payroll, payroll taxes and benefits
- Reconcile any payroll items, such as monthly, quarterly and annual reports
- Work with the GL Team to ensure that all payroll related journals have been accounted for correctly
- Promptly respond to inquiries and questions from employees; organise and coordinate payroll clinics for APJ
- Ensure all restricted stock units (where applicable) information is processed correctly through the relevant country payroll
- Prepare payroll documentation
- Calculate different sales bonuses for payroll processing
- Organise and coordinate new hires onboarding across APJ
- Onboard payroll processes in new APJ regions as needed

**Who We're Looking For**:

- Bachelor’s degree (preferably in finance, HR, business, accounting or related fields).
- Strong Excel skills and computer literacy
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment and comfortable with high-volume workload
- Strong ability to multitask and prioritise as appropriate.
- Strong customer focus and drive to deliver work of a high standard.
- Great communication skills (English).

**Even Better If**:

- You have some working knowledge or experience of processing payroll for multiple countries/ entities.
- You have some experience with vendor management and working to/ implementing service level agreements with a proven track record
- Experience with Success Factors and payroll interfaces.
- Experience of global mobility including an awareness of tax implications and requirements for employees on international assignments.

**What differentiates us from other companies**:

- A product that is strongly positioned to disrupt a multi-billion dollar industry and change the way we think about traditional experiences.
- Work life integration is deeply important to us - we have frequent office events, team outings, and flexibility built into our day.
- We live by our cultural values: TACOS - Transparency, All In, Customer Obsessed, One Team, and Scrappy.
- We hire the best with the intention of developing and promoting within. Our interview process is held at a high standard, however our company's success cannot be done without the success of our people.
- We lead from the front on important issues. We have several teams focused on Diversity and Inclusion (MOSAIQ), cancer research (Five For The Fight), WFH (COVID Taskforce), Women in Leadership (WLD), Veterans (QSalute)... the list goes on.

**Some of our perks and benefits**:

- Hybrid work - we’re returning back to office, however we want to ensure our people are still feeling supported in doing their best work, wherever they are, when they want.
- A comprehensive package consisting of base, bonus, and generous benefits. Clear expectations for perfor