Senior Manager - Payroll

Overview

This position involves overseeing payroll accounting and financial closing processes for multiple entities, including Tata Motors Limited and its subsidiaries. The role demands comprehensive handling of GL accounting, reconciliations, audit coordination, and supporting digital system transformations within SAP environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing activities related to employee compensation and benefits.
• Review and post journal entries, accruals, provisions, reversals, and reclassifications associated with payroll.
• Monitor General Ledger balances regularly and investigate any unusual variances or movements.
• Validate payroll entries ensuring smooth HR to Financial Integration.
• Perform and review reconciliations of balance sheet accounts, including salary payables, employee benefits provisions, statutory liabilities, and control accounts.
• Follow up on outstanding reconciliation items ensuring timely resolutions.
• Support Oracle ARCS and other reconciliation tools as applicable.
• Assist in financial reporting requirements for domestic and international entities served by TMGSL.
• Drive accounting operations within SAP ECC and S/4 HANA systems, ensuring proper posting of HR-FI interface transactions and resolving integration concerns.
• Participate in system upgrades, user acceptance testing (UAT), automation projects, and process standardization initiatives.
• Handle inquiries and issues arising during internal and external audits, specifically related to data transfers and audit walkthroughs—including IPE testing and H2R related audits.
• Coordinate with stakeholders for quarterly audit data sharing and distribute salary cost data by cost center and plant.

Required Skills & Experience

• Expertise in SAP FI, SAP HCM ECC 6.0 modules and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong knowledge of General Ledger accounting, payroll accounting, and Record-to-Report or Hire-to-Retire accounting processes.
• Relevant professional qualifications such as CA, ICWA, or CMA.
• Significant work experience totaling 5 to 10 years in related fields.