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You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you-because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.Job Summary\nThis position is part of the APAC Regional Payroll organization and supports payroll delivery across assigned APAC countries or regions. The Payroll Senior Specialist applies strong payroll expertise, owns complex payroll activities, and acts as a subject matter expert for country-specific payroll processes, controls, and statutory requirements.\nThe role applies working knowledge of complex payroll components, including retros, corrections, large adjustments, stock impacts, GL outputs, and time and attendance inputs. The Senior Specialist supports audit readiness, statutory engagements, vendor coordination, issue resolution, process documentation, and payroll-related project delivery within assigned scope.\nSuccess in this role requires strong technical payroll knowledge, good judgment, clear ownership, and the ability to balance payroll operations, compliance, documentation, stakeholder support, and continuous improvement in a dynamic multi-country environment.\nResponsibilities\nPayroll expertise and country ownership\nAct as a payroll subject matter expert for assigned countries or regions, providing advisory input on complex payroll, compliance, and system scenarios\nApply treatment of complex pay components, including stock program impacts, GL outputs, and time and attendance inputs\nInterpret payroll legislation and initiate change discussions with managers on required process, system, or documentation updates\nPayroll processing, controls, and audit support\nUnderstand and apply complex payroll processing, including retros, corrections, large adjustments, and stock-related payroll impacts\nOwn assigned payroll activities within scope and ensure payroll outputs are accurate, timely, and supported by appropriate controls and evidence\nLead audits and statutory engagements with minimal support, coordinating required payroll data, explanations, and remediation actions when needed\nMaintain strong compliance with SOX controls, internal audit expectations, confidentiality requirements, and data protection standards\nSupport accurate payroll reporting, statutory remittances, payroll calendars, and recurring control activities for assigned countries\nVendor, stakeholder, and cross-functional support\nManage day-to-day payroll vendor relationships and act as an escalation point for payroll and vendor queries within assigned scope\nLiaise independently with HR Services, Finance, Stock Services, payroll vendors, and other stakeholders, while keeping leads informed of decisions that affect operational work\nParticipate in cross-functional initiatives requiring payroll expertise, including payroll, HR, Finance, systems, stock, and vendor-related activities\nCoach and support Payroll Services Administrators and Specialists on technical payroll matters, issue resolution, documentation, and process execution\nIssue management and risk ownership\nLead resolution of high-impact payroll issues and coordinate with People teams, Technology, vendors, and other stakeholders to address root causes\nPerform root cause analysis, identify preventive actions, and help implement sustainable fixes for recurring payroll issues\nIdentify and flag risks that may result in future payroll issues, including operational, compliance, vendor, system, or employee-impact risks\nAnalyze repeatable complex queries, document solutions, and update HR Hub, FAQs, or other knowledge content where applicable\nDocumentation and audit readiness\nOwn the accuracy and completeness of Payroll Services SOPs, checklists, and documentation within assigned scope\nEnsure documentation is current, version-controlled, audit-ready, and updated for regulatory, vendor, system, and process changes\nMaintain comprehensive and up-to-date desktop procedures for assigned countries, processes, controls, and recurring activities\nSupport version control and ensure payroll documentation is aligned with process maps, work instructions, and control requirements\nProjects and continuous improvement\nLead payroll projects affecting assigned countries, identifying and escalating risks or issues to management as required\nLead team or cross-functional initiatives where payroll input, testing, data validation, parallel runs, documentation, or implementation support is required\nAnticipate project timeline risks, identify critical versus non-critical project scope, and support basic change management activities\nLead Payroll Services improvement initiatives, implement improvements with limited guidance, and share best practices across the function\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent required\n6+ years payroll/stock experience supporting payroll operations, payroll projects, or payroll services in a multinational or shared services environment\nStrong payroll experience across one or more APAC countries, with the ability to handle complex payroll processing, statutory requirements, corrections, retros, adjustments, and payroll-related employee queries\nExperience acting as a payroll subject matter expert or senior point of contact for assigned countries, processes, vendors, or systems\nExperience supporting audits, statutory engagements, SOX controls, payroll documentation, and payroll compliance requirements\nExperience with payroll project delivery, system testing, data validation, parallel runs, process documentation, or implementation support preferred\nAbility to partner effectively with HR, Finance, Stock Services, Technology, payroll vendors, and 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If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.\nEquinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.\nWe use artificial intelligence in our hiring process. 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