International Payroll Specialist

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. For more information, visit www.azurity.com.

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azurity's success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do. We seek highly motivated individuals with the dedication, integrity, and creative spirit needed to thrive in our organization.

Brief team/department description:

Our HR Team is accountable for each colleague’s “life” at Azurity, enabling them to design, develop and deliver dose-form innovations of established medicines for patients who have unmet needs. We work together to ensure the organizations' true north is achieved, by unleashing the power of our purpose, people and performance! We thrive to constantly align our HR practices and programs to the business goals, the company values and purpose, to drive improvements and in the process deliver excellent colleague experience.

Now is an exciting time to be part of shaping the future and influencing an exciting global organization, by being a part of the India HR Shared Services team based out of our Global capability Centre at Hyderabad.

Principle Responsibilities:

The HR payroll specialist will join our HR shared Services team in Hyderabad to oversee the payroll process for our India based colleagues and will grow to support payroll processes in other countries, including the USA and Ireland.

• Managing payroll operations for India and Ireland (further regions if need be) & ensuring timely and accurate payments.
• Generating payroll reports detailing deductions, exemptions, and insurance coverage, ensuring adherence to legal & tax regulations.
• Identifying areas for payroll process improvements, managing liabilities, & analyzing payroll data to drive enhancement.
• Guaranteeing compliance with country-specific payroll regulations, tax laws, and social security requirements for each jurisdiction.
• Working with local payroll providers to verify and collect payroll data, including salaries, benefits, and deductions; ensuring compliance with local payroll regulations, tax laws, and social security requirements.
• Reviewing and confirming payroll calculations, including statutory deductions, bonuses, and overtime.
• Coordinating data integration between HR and payroll systems for accuracy.
• Reconciling & validating payroll outputs, such as pay slips, tax filings, and social security contributions.
• Addressing and resolving payroll-related issues and escalations from employees globally.
• Conduct training sessions to update team members and new joiners on payroll processes.
• Generate official documents such as offer letters, appointment letters, and warning letters.

Preferred qualification & pre-requisite skills:

• A bachelor’s degree or MBA · Proficiency in KEKA, ADP and other payroll tools
• Developed and implemented procedures to ensure accurate entry of payroll data
• Customer service mindset and understanding the value of timely response & resolution
• Multitasking simultaneously while meeting timelines consistently
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment

Physical & Mental Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be able to sit for long periods of time
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; talk and/or hear
• May occasionally climb stairs and/or ride elevators
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Employee must be able to manipulate keyboard, operate a telephone and hand-held devices
• Other miscellaneous job duties as required