Hr & Payroll Coordinator, Apac

**Job Description**:
Rimini Street, Inc., is a fast-growing global leader delivering independent, third-party enterprise software support services that enable licensees of Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, and other cloud and locally-hosted enterprise software to extract more value from their investments, advance innovation, and create competitive advantage and growth.

Our mission is to provide extraordinary technology solutions powered by extraordinary people that achieve each client's strategic, operational, and financial goals. Our people have earned Rimini Street multiple industry awards for exceptional work quality and customer service, and we are proud to be recognized around the world as a best place to work and for our corporate social responsibility program.

We are a global organization with more than 1,800 team members in 23 countries. We are a global community guided by our purpose to provide equal opportunity for all as well as our core values: company, clients, colleagues, and community. We are committed to creating a culture that nurtures and rewards a growth mindset and an environment where our people are encouraged to dream big and boldly shape the industry.

We are actively seeking a regional** HR & Payroll Coordinator** to aid and support our regional HR Business Partner serving the APAC market. This is a **remote** role and can be based anywhere in Australia.

**Position Summary**

The purpose of this role is to provide HR & Payroll expertise across the APAC region and to support the regional HR Business Partners in providing for our growing employee base. The role is responsible for partnering with our payroll team to ensure local processes and procedures for each country within the region are consistent with global standards, to support timely payroll and reporting.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**
- Strong understanding of local country payroll and HR requirements, along with key filing dates for local pension plans and other similar types of benefits for the region covered.
- Establish and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders and be an extension of the international payroll team in working with local payroll and benefits vendors.
- Maintain local processes and procedures for each country that Rimini Street does business, and ensure they align with global standards. Conduct a regular review of these processes and standards, to ensure compliance with changes to local country reporting requirements and monitor payroll and benefit legislative processes to capture changes when local country rules change.
- Maintain a knowledge base of required and available benefits for each country with the region, to educate hiring managers, recruiters, and other stakeholders who may be involved in hiring in those countries.
- Ensure local employee data is maintained in the global enterprise system(s) of record. Ensure changes to employee data are made in a timely manner to support timely payroll payments. Rimini Street primarily uses Workday as its global Human Capital Management system, and partners with local benefits and payroll providers to integrate with Workday. Utilize the global enterprise system(s) to eliminate the need or perceived need for local records and manual integrations, calculations, and tracking.
- Liaise with local payroll teams and vendors to respond to their queries and ensure that employee information is forwarded to them from the enterprise system(s) in a timely and methodical fashion. Strive to eliminate manual processes by building and supporting automated processes for exchanging information with an audit trail.
- Manage and streamline the workflow for onboarding and offboarding employees. Maintain an expected process timeline for each country/locality, based upon law, custom, and payroll cutoff dates, and drive process execution to meet these timelines. Partner with Payroll Vendors on all employee changes that need to be updated in the payroll system for onboarding and offboarding employees.
- Assist local payroll teams and vendors in ensuring payrolls run on schedule by providing the timely exchange of payroll information associated with new hires, terminations, salary increases, promotions, tax and pension/retirement savings changes, and any other changes affecting compensation.
- Assist with local statutory financial statement audits as needed for employment data.
- Work closely with the global corporate teams for Payroll and for Compensation & Benefits to resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Review current global and local processes and tasks to seek operational efficiencies and continuously improve.
- Manage daily administrative tasks associated with compensation, benefits, and payroll related queries across APAC
- Respond to employee inquiries in a timely manner and follow up until queries are resolved.
- Review and update employee data for Benefits vendors to ensure alignment with the latest employee information.
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