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Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. \nToday, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.\nNo two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.\nGet To Know Our Team:\nThe People Team is a purveyor of opportunity, searching the globe for the most talented individuals and offering them an open, collaborative workplace. By prioritizing skill and potential, we have cultivated a powerful assembly of professionals through our drive for equal opportunity and diversity. We make the move to Agoda a breeze with assisted onboarding programs, and we continue to support and enrich our thousands of Agoda employees through individual growth with outstanding learning programs and various means of assistance. Our development of incredible benefits has ensured everyone can stay strong, healthy, and happy during their time at Agoda. Leading ambitious changes and making a positive impact in the lives of our employees, the People Team is a crucial and rewarding part of the Agoda family.\nThe Opportunity:\nAs a senior member of our high-performing Global Payroll team based in Bangkok, you will play a critical role in driving payroll excellence, governance, and transformation across our international payroll operations.\nReporting to the Payroll Manager, the Payroll Specialist will have end-to-end ownership of payroll operations for assigned countries or regions, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant payroll delivery. In addition to managing complex payroll operations, you will act as a subject-matter expert, support strategic payroll initiatives, lead process improvements and transformation projects, and provide guidance to Payroll Partners within the team.\nYou will partner closely with People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, People Systems, and external payroll vendors to strengthen controls, improve employee experience, and build scalable global payroll processes.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nOwn end-to-end payroll delivery for assigned countries or regions, ensuring payroll is processed accurately, on time, and in compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements.\nLead monthly payroll activities, including validation of payroll inputs and outputs, variance analysis, statutory payments, funding requirements, and payroll sign-off.\nManage complex payroll accounting activities, including payroll GL reconciliation, payroll funding reconciliation, vendor invoice validation, accruals, and issue resolution.\nAct as the primary payroll subject-matter expert and escalation point for complex payroll, compliance, accounting, and employee-related matters.\nManage and govern payroll vendors against contractual obligations, SLAs, KPIs, quality standards, and regulatory requirements, driving corrective actions where necessary.\nBuild strong relationships with payroll vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure risks, issues, and dependencies are identified and resolved proactively.\nLead payroll implementations, migrations, integrations, vendor transitions, system upgrades, and new-country payroll setups while ensuring operational continuity and minimal employee impact.\nPartner with People Systems, Finance, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Rewards, HR Operations, and other People teams to design and implement scalable payroll processes, controls, and policies.\nLead payroll readiness activities for new entities, acquisitions, reorganizations, legal entity changes, and other business transformation initiatives.\nIdentify payroll compliance risks and work with relevant stakeholders to implement appropriate mitigation and controls.\nOwn and drive process improvement, automation, standardization, and operational excellence initiatives across assigned payrolls.\nPerform detailed payroll analytics, trend analysis, root-cause analysis, and variance reviews to identify risks and opportunities for improvement.\nSupport payroll forecasting, budgeting, cash-flow planning, and funding requirements in partnership with Finance and Treasury.\nLead and support internal, external, statutory, and SOX audits, ensuring documentation, controls, and remediation actions are completed within agreed timelines.\nDevelop and maintain payroll SOPs, controls, process documentation, governance frameworks, and operational dashboards.\nProvide guidance, coaching, and day-to-day support to Payroll Partners, helping build payroll capability and knowledge across the team.\nSupport the Payroll Manager with operational governance, workload prioritization, risk management, stakeholder updates, and strategic payroll initiatives.\nRepresent Payroll in cross-functional projects and forums and effectively communicate payroll risks, decisions, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.\nDrive a strong employee-focused payroll experience by ensuring payroll inquiries and escalations are handled professionally, accurately, and within agreed service levels.\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.\nAt least 5-7 years of end-to-end payroll and/or payroll accounting experience, preferably within a large, international, fast-paced organization.\nStrong experience managing multi-country payroll across APAC, Europe, NAM, or multiple international regions.\nStrong knowledge of payroll operations, payroll accounting, statutory compliance, taxation, social security, payroll controls, and payroll funding processes.\nProven experience independently managing complex payrolls and resolving payroll, compliance, vendor, and employee escalations.\nDemonstrated experience leading payroll migrations, implementations, integrations, vendor transitions, legal entity changes, or transformation projects.\nStrong payroll vendor management experience, including SLA/KPI governance, performance management, issue escalation, and service improvement.\nProven ability to lead process improvement, standardization, automation, and control enhancement initiatives.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to perform payroll variance analysis, root-cause analysis, and identify operational risks.\nGood understanding of payroll accounting, GL reconciliation, accruals, payroll funding, vendor invoices, forecasting, and budgeting.\nExperience supporting internal/external audits and working within a strong governance and controls environment.\nExcellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, Technology, and external partners.\nStrong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex payroll topics clearly to both operational and senior stakeholders.\nStrong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other productivity tools.\nExperience with Workday and global payroll platforms is preferred.\nExperience with payroll analytics, automation, reporting tools, or Power BI would be an advantage.\nAbility to coach and support junior team members and contribute to building a high-performing payroll team.\nHighly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities and payroll deadlines simultaneously.\nComfortable operating in a fast-paced, multicultural, and continuously evolving global environment.\nDemonstrates resilience, ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to remain effective under pressure.\nMaintains a high level of discretion, confidentiality, integrity, and professional ethics.\n\nPlease review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview - click here to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.\nDiscover more about working at Agoda\nAgoda Careers https://careersatagoda.com\nFacebook https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/\nLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda\nYouTube https://www.youtube.com/agodalife\nEqual Opportunity Employer \nAt Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.\nWe will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy.\nDisclaimer\nWe do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. 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