Job Description

Brightstar is an innovative, forward-thinking global leader in lottery that builds on our renowned expertise in delivering secure technology and producing reliable, comprehensive solutions for our customers. As a premier pure play global lottery company, our best-in-class lottery operations, retail and digital solutions, and award-winning lottery games enable our customers to achieve their goals, fulfill player needs and distribute meaningful benefits to communities. Brightstar has a well-established local presence and is a trusted partner to governments and regulators around the world, creating value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. Brightstar has approximately 6,000 employees. For more information, please visit .
Role Overview:
The APAC Payroll Analyst is responsible for managing payroll operations for approximately 150 employees across multiple countries in APAC region inclusive of Australia, China, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan ensuring accurate and timely payments while adhering to local laws and regulations. This role involves processing payroll with external vendors, managing vendor relationships, maintaining accurate employee data, ensuring compliance with tax obligations, and assisting with audit responses as needed.
Experience & Skills:

• Strong knowledge of payroll tax filings and payments.
• Responsible for managing monthly payroll, month-end closing processes, and supporting quarterly and year-end reporting.
• Payroll delivery across APAC in a smooth manner by ensuring activities are undertaken to adhere to committed deadlines.
• Monitor and ensure the maintenance of country-specific knowledge repositories pertaining to your region which will be relied upon collaboration with multiple teams across the organization.
• Review business processes and work towards continually improving delivery and enhancing customer satisfaction.
• Respond to and resolve payroll issues.
• Experience working with multiple payroll vendors, and various processing methods.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with an emphasis on tact and diplomacy
• Ability to work well independently as well as part of a team and matrix structure bringing a sense of urgency to the tasks at hand.
• Superior attention to detail.
• Must be capable of working collaboratively with others, creating partnerships with vendors, management, colleagues, and the rest of the Human Resources function.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to handle numerous projects simultaneously, while maintaining high accuracy and attention to detail.
• Maintaining high confidential information with the utmost integrity is non-negotiable.

• Reporting and Analysis. You will work on complex projects, including calculation updates, special reports, tax amendments, company set up, troubleshooting, and more. You will research historical data, determine adjustments, and use online tools to make corrections.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Human Resources, Accounting or equivalent experience.
• Strong technical proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, with specific advanced competency in Excel, as well as general competency in Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.
• Requires 5+ years of relevant payroll processing with demonstrated knowledge of the regulatory environment for payroll, leaves and time off.
• Must be bi-lingual with English language proficiency

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Success Profile

• Leading Complexity
• Leading People
• Leading the Business
• Leading Self

Brightstar is committed to sustaining a workforce that reflects the diversity of the global customers and communities we serve, and to creating a fair and inclusive culture that enables all our employees to feel valued, respected and engaged. Brightstar is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship, covered veteran status, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other legally protected status in accordance with applicable local, state, federal laws or other laws. We thank all applicants for applying; however, only those selected to interview will be contacted.
All Brightstar employees have a role in information security. Annual training will be assigned and required as appropriate.
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