E T Temporary

The Extended Term Temporary position in the Payroll team at the World Bank's Chennai office involves executing payroll activities, reviewing payroll transactions, resolving payroll issues, and responding to staff queries. The role supports timely and accurate payroll processing and internal control over payroll functions.

Responsibilities

• Execute payroll-schedule activities on time, verifying worklist transactions and manual reports for accuracy, completeness, and payment validity.
• Review retroactive earnings and deduction reports, create missing retro transactions, process required adjustments, and perform peer reviews of worklist and retro entries.
• Review payroll exceptions through the Reports Optimization dashboard, correct staff paychecks, and prepare complete supporting documentation for secondary validation.
• Investigate and resolve payroll and system issues—including duplicate or overdue payments, pending actions, incomplete SRS feeds, and insufficient retro-report data—in coordination with HR and other stakeholders.
• Prepare off-cycle payments and approved salary advances, including alternate-currency payments and arrangements related to assignments or telecommuting.
• Respond to staff queries within agreed service levels; issue earnings certificates, overpayment letters, and control-related communications to staff and managers.
• Monitor payroll-related general ledger accounts, prepare periodic reconciliations, and follow up with clients and partner units on aged, critical, or unresolved items.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (Finance or Accounting)
• Professional accounting qualifications (CA, CPA, ACCA) is desirable, but not mandatory.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant work experience in the functional area.
• Preferable: Background in payroll function in the financial service industry and familiarity with banking transactions; Multinational organization experience would be advantageous.
• Proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Office tools.
• Experience in PeopleSoft systems will be an added advantage.

Skills

• Payroll Processing
• Payroll Transactions Review
• Payroll Issue Resolution
• Staff Query Response
• Internal Control over Payroll
• SAP
• Microsoft Office Suite
• PeopleSoft
• Financial Services Payroll
• Banking Transactions
• Accounting
• Finance

Languages

English