PAYROLL SPECIALIST

PAYROLL SPECIALIST

• Deliver accurate Indonesian payroll across multiple employee populations, with employment administration from onboarding to offboarding.
• About the opportunity
• Keep payroll accurate and on schedule while supporting employees through the changes that affect their pay and employment.
• We are looking for a hands-on Payroll Specialist who can independently manage concurrent Indonesian payroll cycles with different employee groups, calendars and policy rules.
• Your scope extends from payroll preparation and statutory administration to contracts, onboarding, employment changes and offboarding.
• You will combine practical payroll expertise with clear communication, careful reconciliation and sound handling of confidential information.
• What you will do
• Own payroll preparation across multiple employee populations, maintaining separate calendars, records, policy rules and approval requirements.
• Validate attendance, leave, overtime and pay changes; calculate earnings, deductions and prorated pay; investigate missing inputs and unusual movements before finalising results.
• Apply Indonesian PPh 21 requirements, including applicable TER treatment and final-period reconciliation; prepare withholding records and statutory reporting through current workflows, including Coretax DJP.
• Administer BPJS Kesehatan, BPJS Ketenagakerjaan, THR and other applicable employment entitlements, keeping registrations, changes and records aligned with payroll.
• Reconcile payroll registers with approved inputs, payment outputs and finance records; prepare approval packs, payment files and payslips, and resolve discrepancies through the authorised process.
• Prepare employment contracts using approved local templates, check documentation and maintain accurate onboarding and employment-change records.
• Calculate final-pay components from approved employment records and applicable requirements; coordinate offboarding and escalate contract exceptions, disputes and complex termination matters.
• Respond clearly to employee payroll, tax and benefits queries, track each case, and communicate deadlines, progress and unresolved issues.
• Protect employee information through appropriate access controls, secure handling, documented checks and complete approval records.
• Improve payroll routines through practical spreadsheet controls and carefully checked system or automation changes.
• What you will bring
• Essential capabilities
• Hands-on Indonesian payroll ownership across multiple employee populations, with evidence of managing different payroll rules and calendars accurately and on time.
• Practical knowledge of PPh 21, applicable TER treatment, final-period reconciliation, current statutory reporting, BPJS administration and THR.
• Experience with employment administration from approved contract preparation and onboarding through changes, final-pay calculations and offboarding.
• Strong spreadsheet skills, including lookups, conditional calculations, pivot tables, data validation and reconciliation.
• Practical payroll-system and HRIS experience, including validating imports, checking outputs and keeping records consistent.
• Working English for routine correspondence, reports and stakeholder conversations.
• Clear employee support, reliable deadline management and the judgement to investigate exceptions and escalate issues appropriately.
• Careful handling of payroll data, access permissions and approval evidence.
• Preferred strengths
• Brevet A/B certification or equivalent relevant tax training.
• Experience improving payroll controls, reporting or workflows through controlled automation.
• Broader benefits and employment-administration experience across different work settings.
• How you will work
• Take ownership of each payroll cycle, make discrepancies visible early and keep stakeholders informed.
• Maintain the checks and approvals needed for reliable payroll, and use technology with human review and appropriate protection of employee information.
• Evidence of your work
• Be ready to describe an anonymised example covering multiple payroll populations, their different rules or deadlines, the work you personally owned and an exception you resolved.
• Explain a reconciliation or spreadsheet control you used, your statutory-administration experience and a joining or leaving employee case.
• Keep employee names, identifiers, salaries and confidential documents out of your examples.
• Why apply

Use your payroll expertise across varied employee populations and take responsibility for the employment administration that supports accurate pay, reliable records and clear employee service.

• How to apply
• Apply through JobStreet with your CV and a brief example of a payroll cycle or discrepancy you personally managed.
• Include your experience with multiple payroll populations, Indonesian statutory administration, payroll systems and employment-lifecycle operations.