Payroll Specialist

Payroll Specialist India

, India

Job Family Group:

Human Resources Jobs

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

March 12, 2026

Business Unit:

Human Resources

Experience Level:

Early Careers

Job Description:

What’s the role?

As a Payroll Specialist, you will be the specialist for end‑to‑end payroll activities, which includes processing India payroll (salary and statutory payments), overseeing payroll administration activities against statutory directives and company policies, and performing financial controls. You will be part of the India Payroll team reporting to the India Payroll Manager, working with various stakeholders to support India payroll process excellence and operationalize new global payroll solutions.

What you’ll be doing

• Process India payroll (salary and statutory payments) and oversee payroll administration activities in accordance with legislation, statutory directives, and company policies.
• Ensure compliance with legal/regulatory requirements, ICFR controls, posting to finance processes, and execution of statutory and third‑party payments.
• Collaborate with counterparts across lines of business and key stakeholders (Country Payroll Team, SBO Payroll Specialists, HROps, FO‑Payroll Accounting Manila, IT, Employment Tax, employees, line managers, and external partners such as Vialto) to identify and implement process improvements.
• Drive continuous improvement in payroll service delivery, E2E payroll process design, and associated controls.
• Work closely with transformation change agents and projects to support technology change implementations, including design, testing, and cutover (Workday, APRo, Global Payroll Strategy).
• Use data mining techniques to provide actionable insights in support of business needs.
• Lead and coordinate the review and resolution of payroll general ledger out‑of‑balances and ensure outstanding items are addressed.
• Work with IT Support to identify and test SAP country configuration changes and break‑fix updates.
• Serve as focal point for complex problem solving related to policy review, legislative changes, and E2E system assessment.
• Collaborate with GPS implementation teams, vendors, and cross‑functional stakeholders on testing, validation, and issue resolution to enable high‑quality GPS deployment.
• Handle employee queries through Salesforce, ensuring timely resolution aligned with SLAs.

What you bring

• Preferably more than 5 years of payroll functional experience with India SAP Payroll, Workday HR, and MS Office applications.
• Experience in HR, Compensation, Systems, and Finance with knowledge of Payroll, Expatriate Payroll/Tax, employment legislation, e‑TDS filing, Form 16 preparation, Superannuation, labor standards, and HR policies and procedures.
• Strong analytical problem‑solving skills; ability to lead initiatives, work independently, and operate effectively as a team player.
• High attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines with significant output requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and protect employee data in line with data privacy legislation.
• Experience conducting self‑audits, with a focus on risk identification, control effectiveness, and compliance with directives and regulations.
• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills for working with multiple levels of management.
• Energy, enthusiasm, a solution‑minded and can‑do attitude.
• Sound judgment to identify and resolve challenges and issues.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and

• international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.

Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

Our approach

Powering Progress sets our strategy to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, generating value for our shareholders, our customers and wider society. As we move forward on this journey, we will power lives and respect nature while maintaining our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people.

Our values

At Shell, we share a set of core values – honesty, integrity and respect for people – which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.

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Experience Level

Mid Level