CPS Performance and Rewards Senior Specialist

CPS Performance and Rewards Senior Specialist

Help Shape a Seamless Employee Experience

Payroll is more than processing numbers. It's about ensuring people are paid accurately, on time, and with confidence.

Role Summary

As a Performance and Rewards Senior Specialist, you will serve as a subject matter expert responsible for managing end-to-end payroll operations and supporting compensation, benefits, and performance management activities.

• Manage and validate compensation, benefits, performance management, and payroll activities across the full process lifecycle, from payroll preparation through post-payroll reconciliation, reporting, and audit support.
• Ensure payroll accuracy, compliance, and adherence to policies, controls, statutory requirements, governance standards, and service level agreements.
• Partner with HR, Finance, Local People Services, payroll vendors, benefits providers, and other stakeholders to ensure timely delivery, issue resolution, and service excellence.
• Lead the resolution of complex payroll issues, discrepancies, escalations, and operational risks through effective root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Drive process standardization, efficiency improvements, automation opportunities, and service enhancements to improve employee and stakeholder experience.
• Maintain process documentation and knowledge repositories, support onboarding and knowledge transfer activities, and coach team members on BAU operations and best practices.
• Monitor KPIs, SLAs, and operational performance, facilitate stakeholder discussions, provide strategic recommendations, manage workload distribution, and proactively escalate risks and dependencies.

About the Team

You will join a collaborative team committed to delivering accurate, efficient, and employee-centric People Services solutions.

What We Are Looking For

• At least 3 to 5 years of payroll operations experience, with strong exposure to end-to- end payroll processing, compensation and benefits administration, payroll validation, reconciliations, statutory compliance, employee inquiries, and year-end activities.
• Experience supporting multi-country payroll operations, preferably across APAC, Europe, or other international regions.
• Background in Shared Services, Global Business Services (GBS), BPO, SSO, or outsourced payroll environments is highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Philippine payroll compliance, including BIR withholding tax, annualization, year-end tax processing, Form 2316, Alphalist reporting, and statutory contributions such as SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG.
• Advanced Excel and payroll data analysis skills, with demonstrated ability to perform reconciliations, variance analysis, data validation, and payroll reporting.
• Solid understanding of payroll governance, internal controls, audit requirements, data privacy, and the handling of confidential employee information.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Management, or a related field preferred.
• Self-directed and results-oriented, with the ability to work effectively with minimal supervision.

What We Offer

Opportunities to work in a global and collaborative environment, continuous learning, and exposure to transformation initiatives.

Don't meet every requirement?

Don't let that hold you back. Research shows that many talented candidates only apply when they meet every qualification. If this role excites you and your experience aligns with most of the requirements, we encourage you to apply.

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