Senior Payroll Representative
Dow
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About You And The Role
As a Senior Payroll Representative based in Navi Mumbai, you act as the first point of contact for payroll inquiries through phone, chat, or e-Request across various disciplines. You are empowered to support and perform transactional activities that enable HR business processes and deliver a best-in-class employee experience. You may also serve as a resource for less experienced team members.
In this role, you develop full proficiency in a range of technical processes and procedures through job-related training and hands-on experience. You apply your knowledge of technical processes and procedures to complete a variety of work assignments. You understand how multiple teams coordinate their efforts and resources to achieve objectives, and you are able to explain complex technical information to members of your team as well as other teams.
You are responsible for providing solutions to operational and analytical problems using established procedures and practices. You serve as an informal resource on analytical methods, scientific approaches, and operational processes for less experienced colleagues. Your performance impacts the quality, timeliness, and effectiveness of both your work and your team's work. While you receive guidance on new and complex assignments, you are expected to work independently and apply sound judgment in your day-to-day responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Acts as primary point-of-contact for payroll inquiries (via phone, chat, and e-Request), identifying and delivering solutions to employees and People Leaders
- Delegates and escalates queries as appropriate, but remains responsible through completion
- Tracks progress, and provides continuous feedback to requestors on status of their queries
- Engage in improving Knowledge Base and Case Management content for payroll, based on experience
- Supports oversight of service operations by responding to service demands as they arise (e.g., volume of calls, staff absence, chat and e-Request queries, etc.)
- Engages in and drives overall continuous improvement processes (e.g., to reduce inquiry volume)
- Enables a best-in-class employee experience through exceptional service delivery and subject matter consultation for Time and Absence
- Any Graduate with relevant HR and Finance background
- A minimum of 4 years of experience in US/Canada Payroll activities
- Experience with Microsoft Suite
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Payroll Compliance & Regulatory Knowledge
- Understanding country-specific payroll laws, taxes, social security requirements, and statutory reporting obligations.
- Knowing when to escalate compliance risks and ensuring payroll processes meet local legal requirements.
- Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Building effective relationships with HR, Finance, vendors, and employees across different countries and time zones.
- Communicating payroll impacts, deadlines, issues, and resolutions clearly and professionally.
- Data Accuracy & Analytical Thinking
- Reviewing payroll data for errors, identifying trends, reconciling variances, and performing root-cause analysis.
- Using payroll systems, reports, and Excel to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing.
- No relocation is supported for this role
- Incumbent should be flexible to work in shifts
We invest in you.
Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
About Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd
Dow Chemical International Private Limited (Dow India) aims to be the most innovative, sustainable, inclusive customer-centric materials science company. The company is committed to delivering the right solutions to its customers’ challenges. With broadest technology sets spanning performance materials, industrial intermediates, and plastics Dow India delivers differentiated science-based products and solutions in high-growth segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, automobile, and consumer care.
A Great Place to Work Certified company with approximately over 1000 employees, its operations comprise of manufacturing sites, innovation center, established centers of excellence, and commercial office. As a responsible corporate, the company supports its Corporate Social Responsibility (program) with technology expertise and employee volunteerism. Dow India works with non-profit partners towards the empowerment of differently abled, women, and children in communities where it operates. The company aims to redefine the societal blueprint, by supporting holistic sustainability and circular economy initiatives.
As part of our dedication to inclusion, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.