Senior Payroll Specialist

At Dow, we believe in putting people first and we're passionate about delivering integrity, respect and safety to our customers, our employees and the planet.

Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We're a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration. If you're looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you're in the right place.

About you and the role

The Dow Chemical company has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Payroll Specialist based in Mumbai within HR Operations team, which is dedicated to designing and delivering innovative HR solutions for employees and leaders. Your role requires deep subject-matter expertise to consult on various HR programs, processes, and people-related matters, with a primary focus on providing exceptional employee experience. You should be passionate about learning, open to new approaches, thrive in diverse teams, seek to understand the business and its customers, and enjoy leveraging data to drive change.

Key Responsibilities

• The Senior Payroll Specialist delivers exceptional employee experience through expert service and consultation for Payroll RTB.
• The role supports payroll processing for one or more countries, ensuring timely and accurate pay aligned with tax laws, labor conditions, and company policies
• Coordination with various internal and external stakeholders is essential, emphasizing accountability and ownership of data and processes.
• The specialist drives innovation, executes agreed service levels, and pursues operational excellence in pay processing with a structured, detail-oriented approach.
• Responsibilities include managing local and expat payroll, defining and documenting best practices, ensuring compliance, and acting as the first escalation point for Pay Coordinators and payroll vendors.
• The role involves partnering with other disciplines, Government authorities, backing up pay runs, and participating in projects impacting expat and UK payroll, ensuring effective communication of outcomes.

Qualifications

• You have a bachelor's degree in HR, Finance or related area.
• You bring a minimum of 3 - 5 years' Time and Absence and payroll experience, both at a technical and practical level in diverse business and work processes or other relevant job experience.
• A minimum of 1-2 years of UK payroll experience is must.

Your Skills

• Fluency in English
• Understand organizational interdependencies and possess experience in cross-functional and cross-cultural change management.
• Demonstrate a strategic and analytical mindset, along with strong communication and persuasion skills.
• Have experience working in high-volume operational environments.
• Familiarity with Workday and ADP streamline is considered an advantage.
• Experience with ADP eTime or ADP WFM is a plus.
• Exhibit strong consulting and change management skills, excellent problem-solving and critical thinking abilities, the capacity to multi-task and manage competing priorities, work independently with accountability, and maintain a customer service mindset.

Additional Notes

• Relocation support is not available for this role.
• The ability to accommodate a flexible schedule aligned with international time zones (if required) is essential.

Benefits – What Dow offers you

We invest in you.

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you you need it.
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
• Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
• Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees' Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
• Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
• Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
• Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group's (ERG) participation.
• Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
• On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
• Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
• Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
• Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
• Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
• Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)

Join our team, we can make a difference together.

About Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd

Dow Chemical International Private Limited (Dow India) aims to be the most innovative, sustainable, inclusive customer-centric materials science company. The company is committed to delivering the right solutions to its customers' challenges. With broadest technology sets spanning performance materials, industrial intermediates, and plastics Dow India delivers differentiated science-based products and solutions in high-growth segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, automobile, and consumer care.

A Great Place to Work Certified company with approximately over 1000 employees, its operations comprise of manufacturing sites, innovation center, established centers of excellence, and commercial office. As a responsible corporate, the company supports its Corporate Social Responsibility (program) with technology expertise and employee volunteerism. Dow India works with non-profit partners towards the empowerment of differently abled, women, and children in communities where it operates. The company aims to redefine the societal blueprint, by supporting holistic sustainability and circular economy initiatives.

As part of our dedication to inclusion, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on

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