Graduate Talent (payroll Specialist)

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Penang, Malaysia

This role is responsible for preparing and processing payroll, managing employee master data, ensuring accurate payments and benefits, and maintaining payroll records. It involves collaborating with finance, legal, and tax departments, conducting audits, and ensuring compliance with internal policies and external government requirements. The role also focuses on process improvement and championing lean methodologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Prepares and sends inputs to the payroll vendors for compensation calculation.
  2. Performs computations and other duties necessary to prepare payroll information for computer input, adjust computer output, and process exception items or those requiring special handling.
  3. Creates and maintains employee master data along with other payroll data to produce and distribute payroll system reports.
  4. Ensures accurate payment of wages and benefits.
  5. Owns payroll support, resolves payroll issues, responds to payroll employee inquiries and documents new payroll processes or updates documentation as required.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline Degree in Human Resource, Finance, Accounting or equivalent business experience.
  • Attention to detail with ability to deliver quality output whilst working under pressure and to tight timelines.
  • Proficient in English and mandarin in both written and verbal to support global and regional stakeholders.
  • Strong business partnering influencing stakeholder management skills are essential in order to support the regional requirements suppliers and remote team partners.
  • Computer literacy analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail and data are required.
  • Ability to be versatile coping with ambiguity and work odd hours when required
  • Advance skill in Microsoft Excel.

Nice to have

  • Payroll accounting
  • SOX
  • automation experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Ensures compliance with both internal payroll policies and external government requirements.