# Vice President, Payroll

**Company**: BlackRock
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

BlackRock's Global Payroll & Employment Tax function is a critical team responsible for delivering accurate, timely, and compliant payroll services across the organization.

The Vice President, Payroll will lead and oversee the end-to-end payroll operations for India, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll execution, while advancing governance, control frameworks, and transformation initiatives.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead and oversee the end-to-end India payroll function, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and full compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

- Manage and ensure compliance with all India statutory regulations, including PF, ESIC, PT, LWF, gratuity, and income tax.

- Lead and mentor a high-performing payroll team, driving accountability, capability building, and a culture of continuous improvement.

- Drive automation and process optimization initiatives to enhance payroll systems, reporting, and operational efficiency.

- Build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships with HR, Finance, and Tax teams.

- Manage the payroll vendor relationships to deliver payroll effectively.

- Develop and monitor key payroll metrics and KPIs to track operational performance, compliance adherence, and service delivery effectiveness.

- Oversee audit and compliance activities, including internal audits, employment tax audits, and social security reviews.

**Knowledge/Qualifications:**

- 8+ years of experience in payroll operations and statutory compliance, preferably within India and broader APAC regions.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree, preferably in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.

- Knowledge of withholding tax, related tax filings, tax policy, and regulations as they relate to India/APAC Countries.

- Proven ability to manage payroll vendors effectively.

- Solid understanding of HR processes, payroll dependencies, and cross-functional integrations.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word; experience with Workday or similar HR/payroll systems preferred.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

- Excellent communication skills, with fluency in English.

**Competencies Required:**

- A high level of attention to detail.

- A positive and 'can-do' attitude.

- Risk Management.

- Teamwork, including collaborating with remote team members.

- Problem-solving.

- Desire and ability to provide outstanding service to internal clients.

- Adaptable, resilient, and embracing of change.

- Capable of communicating with impact.

- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines.

- Ability to identify, analyze, and develop processes and drive continuous improvement.

- Discretion in dealing with confidential information.

**Benefits:**

- A strong retirement plan.

- Tuition reimbursement.

- Comprehensive healthcare.

- Support for working parents.

- Flexible Time Off (FTO).

**Hybrid Work Model:**

- Employees are required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

## Skills

### Required
- Payroll operations
- statutory compliance
- Microsoft Excel
- Word
- Workday
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- Experience with Workday or similar HR/payroll systems

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